Example sentences of "[subord] it look " in BNC.
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| 31 | Unlike the rock pitch on the Wellenkuppe , the gendarme turned out to be steeper than it looked . |
| 32 | ‘ It was all a lot less real than it looked . |
| 33 | Alix admitted what Liz already knew , that she and Sebastian had been less than happy , that the idyll had been less golden than it looked . |
| 34 | Thinking that it was heavier than it looked , he undid the straps and buckles and threw back the flap . |
| 35 | Lisa dived in hungrily , spreading butter and honey on a croissant , and reflecting as she washed down the first bite with coffee that it was even more delicious than it looked . |
| 36 | Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside . |
| 37 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 38 | It was heavier than it looked . |
| 39 | However , that figure was in fact far better than it looked as the banks had the worst ranking of any sector , with an average negative rating of -1,357 . |
| 40 | Acrylic tends to dry less opaque than it look when wet , and it may take repeated overpainting when thin layers of colour are used to cover completely something underneath . |
| 41 | For this reason the speed of the speech may be slower than it looks , the cigarette smoking being used to punctuate it . |
| 42 | The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top . |
| 43 | EBBERSTON HALL is Palladian to the hilt and also much bigger than it looks . |
| 44 | This is less odd than it looks : it pays creditors to avoid the delays and legal costs of chapter 11 . |
| 45 | This understanding from the ‘ Great Satan ’ will do the king little good at home , but his position may be stronger than it looks . |
| 46 | The statue is much bigger than it looks ; it is always foreshortened because of the need to look sharply upward , and is actually over 4 metres high . |
| 47 | Getting upside-down is far easier than it looks — it just needs the right combination or circumstances . |
| 48 | As suggested , the CD3 is a simple , almost artless player , rather heavier than it looks , but simply built , with a bent metal box fronted by a smart alloy front panel extrusion and a drawer whose rather stately progress in and out of the player was bettered by an earlier sample I examined . |
| 49 | Based on a simple thick white sauce , this meal is much easier to make than it looks |
| 50 | The enclosed cab is covered in lightly-grained black Tolex with no corner pieces , while the front , which angles gently back towards the top , is more rock'n'roll than it looks . |
| 51 | ‘ The reduction is more than it looks because the decibel scale is a logarythmic one , ’ says Dr Greg Watts , of the Transport and Road Research laboratory at Craythorn . |
| 52 | Fortunately , it 's simpler than it looks . |
| 53 | As for the scene in the Sammath Naur , it is even more providential than it looks . |
| 54 | That is less bad than it looks ; in Tokyo , the stockmarket yields only 0.8% these days . |
| 55 | Foreign investors are beginning to worry that the Mexican peso is less solid than it looks . |
| 56 | He learnt one thing : ‘ that to paint in watercolour is far more difficult than it looks . ’ |
| 57 | Fortunately it 's easier than it looks , but still full Very Severe . |
| 58 | You know the flake is a lot harder than it looks and there 's this traverse … ’ |
| 59 | Putting on the roof was the most satisfying job : it is precision work which is easier than it looks — particularly with the plastic ridge fixings and verges . |
| 60 | MAKING BRANDY SNAPS is much easier than it looks . |