Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [subord] [pron] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack is not bothered what the tree looks like because it is not good enough to eat . |
| 2 | Now party influence looks as though it is again on the wane . |
| 3 | " It looks as though it 's over wi' awd Blossom , then , " he said , and rested his hand briefly on the old cow 's back It was an enormous , work-swollen hand . |
| 4 | on the basis of a hundred per hundred thousand square feet to which you 'd have to add obviously a sort of surrounding area from the square footage used for a distribution warehouse , it looks as though it 's around about the thirteen |
| 5 | So Fay it looks as though it 's down to you . |
| 6 | Occasionally , it just looks as though someone 's not going to turn up because for one reason or another they 've been held up . |
| 7 | She says that she thinks that once she 's back in the States , her husband will continue to harrass her . |
| 8 | He thinks that if he is only slavish enough in his service of the old hag , the beautiful girl to whom he once made love will come back to him : |
| 9 | And Stapleton insists that if he 's not playing well , Pearson should yank him off |
| 10 | The former says that because something is true for me it is necessarily true , while the latter says that because something is not true for me it is not true . |
| 11 | She says that considering he 's only lived here for a short while , it 's fantastic the way people are celebrating his success . |
| 12 | This may lead some to suppose that any attribution or commendation of neutrality assumes that whereas one is morally responsible ( i.e. , accountable ) for what one does , one is not morally responsible for what one does not do , or some similar distinction . |
| 13 | Hilton recognises that while it is apparently unreasonable for man governed by reason utterly to devalue himself and attribute any good things which he does to Christ it is nevertheless the route to true identity , away from the temporal accidents which attract the self , to its essential which is discovered in Christ himself . |
| 14 | He 's much more in his element in prometheus , which heaves and sighs as though it 's actually giving birth to fire . |
| 15 | The Scottish Fold cat appears as though it is permanently in the act of lowering its ears . |
| 16 | The company has not attempted to sell its products abroad , but feels that if it is ever to expand again , then overseas markets are the only feasible method . |
| 17 | Feels as though it 's right through . |
| 18 | This indicates that although it is very scared it has not entirely lost its aggression . |
| 19 | This combination of characters in Sivapithecus indicates that if it is indeed related to the orang-utan , characters like the straight shaft and convex deltoid plane that are present in the extant great apes must have arisen independently in the orang-utan and the African apes . |
| 20 | Only her , which means that when she 's not there who must do the job ? |
| 21 | However , the older brother 's nursery reports that although he is sometimes a little grubby , bonding and general care are perfectly adequate . |
| 22 | THE Halifax reports that because it is so hard to move house , 41 per cent of borrowers made major improvements last year compared with 37 per the year before . |
| 23 | The company argues that since it is neither government-owned nor a sole supplier , it should be free to make any purchasing decisions it sees fit , without having to pay the Commission 's 3% tariff penalty against telecommunications equipment from outside the Community . |
| 24 | Andrea Wallace , one of Britain 's top cross-country athletes and a mother of two , running in only her second marathon , believes that if she is still there at 20 miles , she has a chance of gaining a medal . |