Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] as [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only let-downs are cabin styling which looks as if it was lifted directly from the Corolla and an overall lack of identity . |
| 2 | Young lads gather round the car which looks as if it had been dead for days or weeks . |
| 3 | This is the reason for the internal head-band in helmets which looks as if it was put in in order to provide ventilation . |
| 4 | Two walls are broken by windows , a third is occupied by the fireplace ; a battered electric cooker and an old sink , which looks as if it were last used to dip sheep , stand on either side of another locked and bolted door . |
| 5 | There is a smaller bedroom and a tiny , suspiciously tidy kitchen , which looks as if it is not often used . |
| 6 | The American film-maker Maya Deren says somewhere that ‘ response should always precede analysis ’ , a remark which sounds as if it was made as an artist 's challenge to academic dryness and formalism . |
| 7 | This additional information can be very useful indeed in saving the researcher from looking up an article which sounds as if it would be useful from the title , but which , in fact , is not relevant to one 's particular interest . |
| 8 | ‘ The trouble is she feels as if it were her fault . |
| 9 | Look — ’ he held aloft his battered , ink-bespattered copy — ‘ this one looks as if it 's been in use since the Boer War . ’ |
| 10 | This is the Berthold specimen book and it worries me , because everything looks as if it 's supposed to sit in a line of eighteen point display , you know , sort of specimen setting , saying this is |
| 11 | ‘ We have taken a step backward , ’ Ryan said — and on this sorry evidence it looks as if it will be backwards all the way when the Test takes place at Cardiff Arms Park on 4 November . |
| 12 | A spokesman for British Gas said : ‘ It appears that gas was involved , although it looks as if it was a deliberate release rather than an accidental one . ’ |
| 13 | Tanners Wine Merchants on Wyler Cop is a good place to visit : it looks as if it might be trade only , but is n't : march round the back , through the yard and go in . |
| 14 | These lists are not exhaustive — if they were they would fill the entire book — but work on the principle of : if it looks as if it will fit , then it probably will . |
| 15 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |
| 16 | It looks as if it must be something we are eating . |
| 17 | ‘ It looks as if it 's been made out of a tree and it feels lovely . |
| 18 | ‘ Otherwise it looks as if it belongs to me . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It looks as if it 's bad , an' all . ’ |
| 20 | It looks as if it might cramp the teacher 's style . |
| 21 | Though at any given amount it looks as if it is n't going anywhere , it 's always on the move , lumbering from crisis to crisis . |
| 22 | This kitchen extension is an excellent example of how it should be done : it looks as if it was built at the same time as the rest of the house |
| 23 | But these days , if it looks as if it 's going to be nasty , I take the easy way out . |
| 24 | Microsoft Corp has been talking a little more about its planned Cairo — now called Windows Cairo — object-oriented operating system , and far from being a distant prospect , it looks as if it will come hard on the heels of Windows NT , with a professional developers ' kit available as soon as early next year according to the late Systems & Network Integration . |
| 25 | After about five minutes you may need to change the blotters but , eventually , when it looks as if it is not going to curl , you can remove the weight and let it air dry . |
| 26 | It looks as if it has come straight out of a childrens ’ story book , for it is round with cosy little windows peeping out of the almost conical thatched roof . |
| 27 | It looks it looks as if it is . |
| 28 | But they have n't It looks as if it 's a right angle there |
| 29 | policies away , that 's alright , it looks as if it 's normal . |
| 30 | It looks as if it 's from the Editor . ’ |