Example sentences of "[det] [noun] it [verb] as though " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case it looks as though in fact there were " captains of thousands " and " captains of hundreds " , and that my metonymy or by abbreviation " thousand " has been used for " captains of thousands " ad " hundreds " . |
| 2 | Louis VI intervened on behalf of one of them , William Clito , son of Robert Curthose , and therefore a claimant also to the duchy of Normandy ; for some months it looked as though Clito would establish his right . |
| 3 | For the next few weeks it seemed as though a genuine " United Front " would be established . |
| 4 | For some reason it felt as though she was being sucked into something by a card-sharp . |
| 5 | In this way it appears as though new species arrive continuously . |
| 6 | Mr Ramsay added ‘ This year it looks as though cereal prices will be much on a par with last year and on top of that farmers will receive the area compensatory payments . |
| 7 | Each time it looked as though he was going to make his breakthrough — in 1982 after his Commonwealth dead heat with Allan Wells , or in 1984 after making the Los Angeles Olympic final , or again in 1985 after winning the European Indoor — he just did n't get his act together . |