Example sentences of "is as [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if an economic historian , collating woeful Financial Times editorials every few years , were to conclude that there really were no business-cycles , let alone longer-term Kondratieff waves of growth and decline . |
| 2 | In a more romantic mode , it is as though a thousand lone voices have suddenly and unexpectedly found common cause in one majestic chorus , which is now drowning out the discordant notes heard from beyond the main stage . |
| 3 | It is as though a librarian , ordered to destroy Lady Chatterley 's Lover , simply tore up the card from the card index , leaving the book itself on the shelf . |
| 4 | In it they asserted quite clearly that permitting divorce would certainly affect the stability of all Irish marriages because it rendered every Irish marriage dissoluble : ‘ It is as though the legal availability of divorce builds up a social pressure which , for large numbers of people , becomes stronger than moral or religious resistance ’ ( abridged version , Irish Times , 14 May 1986 ) . |
| 5 | It is as though the panel has developed a blind spot which does not admit the possibility that the newcomer might win . |
| 6 | It is as though the information , induced and deduced by the techniques , were observed through tinted spectacles that obscure certain types of information . |
| 7 | It is as though the land knows of its own beauty , of its own greatness , and feels no need to shout it . |
| 8 | It is as though the bream were connected to sticks with several people stood on the bottom pushing one fish up as they pull another one down . |
| 9 | It is as though the intangible stimuli of beauty in the mundane have their counterparts in the farthest transcendent . |
| 10 | Once a bee has learned how to recognise a particular kind of flower and when and where to find it , it is as though the information is stored in the manner of an appointment book . |
| 11 | In form the Song of Roland is like a succession of vivid , jerky photographs , like an early motion picture ; it is as though the author had set out to describe something similar to the Bayeux Tapestry , depicting the tragedy , not of Harold , but of Roland . |
| 12 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 13 | It is as though the adult needs to see the infant as intentional and her actions as purposeful in order to respond appropriately . |
| 14 | Or again , it is as though the disorganized and random bursts of photons present in a beam of white light were suddenly all being accelerated and agitated to precisely the same frequency and directed at the same spot — to produce the awesome source of energy that we have come to know as the laser . |
| 15 | For many parents it is as though the child they were expecting is dead . |
| 16 | It is as though the promise of sun and warm winds is better than their realisation . |
| 17 | It is as though the programme of Galileo and Locke , which involved discarding secondary qualities ( colour , taste , etc. ) in favour of primary qualities ( the quantities of classical mechanics ) , had been carried a stage further and these primary qualities had themselves become secondary to the property of potentia in which they all lay latent . |
| 18 | It is as though the historic opponents of medieval times , the aristocrats and the guildsmen , had been brought together in harmony . |
| 19 | Now , six months after the Gulf crisis began , it is as though the world has solidified again . |
| 20 | It is as though the process of influencing pupils implicit in ‘ making the school environment as interesting , stimulating , colourful and varied as possible ’ ( p. 46 ) , whilst undoubtedly important , was sufficient to ensure a personal artistic response from pupils . |
| 21 | It is as though the physical structure of the head and neck are being at one and the same time constructed and medically dissected as well as reproduced in terms of illusion . |
| 22 | It is as though the Prime Minister is trying to paint a canvas in the style of Georges Seurat , if I may be forgiven for referring to a continental artist . |