Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [prep] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The union representative is looking into the case to see if the company have a negligence claim to answer , but at the moment it rather looks as if it was entirely Len 's fault . |
| 2 | until it just seems as if it 's an impossible task |
| 3 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |
| 4 | Because to make a microscope preparation means that the tissue has to be fixed and stained , what one sees always looks as if it is a very rigid structure , but in the living organism the dendritic pattern of neurons is as mobile as the branches of a growing tree in a gentle breeze , so changed branching patterns are perhaps not so hard to envisage . |
| 5 | And I , I ran there and ran back to continue my game , at play like and I heard a , mo , her say to mother well I like your lad to go says th look at this cheese it 's never been unwrapped he said those other lads he says it 's always looks as if it 's been unwrapped and |
| 6 | ‘ That storm still looks as if it 's building up to me , ’ said Jimmy . |
| 7 | My head rang with that particular vibration of accidental pain , a tintinnabulating effect that always feels as if it should have preceded its cause — by way of a warning . |
| 8 | Your , your correct address is , is road is n't it , it 's still reads as if it might not be , please note that on the membership list , Velma 's address is not Avenue . |
| 9 | With Brussels seemingly uninterested in the problems facing British trade publishers in trying to protect their UK territorial rights against single market requirements while US editions wash about the Continent , and with US publishers deaf to arguments that Community law effectively means the end of the open market of Europe , UK publishers continue to put out early export editions simply to compete with US publishers in a market that still behaves as if it were open . |
| 10 | MITI had hoped to get the legislation through by next month , but it now looks as if it will have to wait until autumn before the ministries have talked it over . |
| 11 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG now looks as if it is right down there in the corporate basket case category : after some three years of substantial losses , Siemens AG chairman Heinrich von Pierer now says that an effort is being made to ensure that its return to profit ‘ does n't take much longer than three years ; ’ its biggest problem is that the pain of customers starting to go stone cold on mainframes has scarcely begun yet in Germany . |
| 12 | Mr Clinton wanted energy producers to absorb the tax ; after strenuous lobbying , it now looks as if it will be fully passed on to consumers . |
| 13 | Now looks as if it 's in her hair there the way things |
| 14 | Where … as in a mature legal system , we have a system of rules which includes a rule of recognition so that the status of a rule as a member of the system now depends on whether it satisfies certain criteria provided by the rule of recognition , this brings with it a new application of the word ‘ exist ’ . |
| 15 | Arbroath 's south transept even looks as if it has smelt the wind under which it will sail ; it is a tall , bare , one-shouldered hulk with a single blank eye at the high gable top where a rose window used to be . |
| 16 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 17 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 18 | Graham says that if the set-up is a success — and it certainly looks as if it 's going to be — he may take on more charity tanks in the future . |
| 19 | The Damsel certainly sounds as if it has gone blind through an undetermined infection . |