Example sentences of "that it was as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our Lord 's parable of the lost sheep ( Luke 15:3–6 ) we see that it was as a consequence of counting his sheep into the fold each night that the shepherd discovered that he was one short . |
| 2 | It does not do to attribute human motives to animals but Billy said afterwards that it was as if she was reluctant to leave and did not expect to be back . |
| 3 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 4 | Clearly this is based , at least in part , on the documents they obtained in the Middle East country ; and clearly the inference can be fairly drawn that it was as a result of this information that the Federal Reserve Board alerted the Bank of England . |
| 5 | He had played so extraordinarily fair with her the night before , he reflected , contentedly , that it was as if he had not played at all . |
| 6 | Suddenly the eagle opened his wings , fell back in an arc of restricted flight , and dashed his talons on the far side of his cage before plunging back towards Creggan , so powerfully and full of anger that it was as if he had forgotten that there were two walls of bars and iron mesh between them . |
| 7 | He felt he knew very little about her present feelings , which were so malign toward him and unmapped that it was as if he were seeing the back side of the moon . |
| 8 | But he thought that it was as if Fael-Inis had somehow taken a shard of pure light and splintered it , and then scattered it about them . |
| 9 | He thought later — ‘ When I could think , ’ he said — that it was as if the soul knew that it must surrender itself into the Lad 's hands , to do with as he wished . |
| 10 | According to Mecdi , Ecezade won Selim 's regard and affection while the latter was governor in Trabzon ; and it is certainly implicit that it was as a result of this affection that Ecezade received the kadiliks of Selanik and Bursa . |
| 11 | The appearance of her ‘ rival ’ so encouraged Penelope that it was as if Rupert himself had come out of his house and made her a declaration of love . |
| 12 | Izzie breathed the words so softly into Gabriel 's ear that it was as if he had thought them himself . |