Example sentences of "[not/n't] as [adj] [conj] it look " in BNC.

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1 Because it 's not as simple as it looks on this sheet .
2 Despite Aurangzeb 's successful policy of expansion to the south , some Company employees suspected that his empire was not as powerful as it looked .
3 Certainly , it is not as easy as it looks .
4 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 .
5 It 's not as easy as it looks , marrying into a fortune .
6 Actually it 's not as glamorous as it looks .
7 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 ,
8 Not as bad as it looked on first assessment .
9 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
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 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 .
12 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 .
13 Morag and Granny started on this job right away but they soon found that it was n't as easy as it looked .
14 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 .
15 ‘ It was n't as bad as it looked , ’ Sacco said .
16 But the news is n't as bad as it looks .
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