Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [subord] it look " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty . |
| 2 | Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet . |
| 3 | Despite Aurangzeb 's successful policy of expansion to the south , some Company employees suspected that his empire was not as powerful as it looked . |
| 4 | Certainly , it is not as easy as it looks . |
| 5 | We climbed for an hour-and-a-half and I can tell you that going up a mountain on skins is not as easy as it looks . |
| 6 | It 's not as easy as it looks , marrying into a fortune . |
| 7 | Actually it 's not as glamorous as it looks . |
| 8 | I it 's nice but it 's a bit , it 's a bit erm impractical , it looks , it look it 's not as thick as it looks , |
| 9 | ‘ Not as bad as it looked on first assessment . |
| 10 | things went from bad to worse then as United defender Colin Andreson got sent off … for a challenge that was late but not as bad as it looked … ref had different thoughts |
| 11 | things went from bad to worse then as United defender Colin Andreson got sent off … for a challenge that was late but not as bad as it looked … ref had different thoughts |
| 12 | The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets . |
| 13 | The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête . |
| 14 | Morag and Granny started on this job right away but they soon found that it was n't as easy as it looked . |
| 15 | But perhaps it was n't as bad as it looked , and in any case one could n't go on sitting here , being stared at by the whole of St Petrock's-on-Sea while Chignell waved smelling salts under one 's nose . |
| 16 | ‘ It was n't as bad as it looked , ’ Sacco said . |
| 17 | But the news is n't as bad as it looks . |