Example sentences of "look as [subord] [pron] are " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then if , if it looks as if they are in , you just go to the next one and look at that , you know what I mean ? |
| 2 | Often it looks as if they are , erm but they do n't need to be . |
| 3 | Mr Patten said later : ‘ The important thing as far as I am concerned is that it looks as if we are going to have a Conservative government . |
| 4 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 5 | B : ‘ I am worried about my job because it looks as if we are going to be privatised soon and there may be redundancies . |
| 6 | ‘ It certainly looks as if we are going to be quite a bit worse off next year , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The use sales jargon , the BlowerVac has a very high perceived value , meaning it looks as if you are getting a lot of machine for your £120 . |
| 8 | As so often , it is the monstrous ones that stick in the mind : two gross , splayed pairs of legs about to join the rest of the body they belong to in the maw of two amiable-looking man-eaters ( reminiscent of Oloron ) ; two horribly bent captives , their feet tied by a cord and their heads looking as if they are propped upright on sticks — strange motifs , yet motifs all the same , because they are not unique to Lescar . |
| 9 | There is not much point in weighing less but looking as if you are suffering from some wasting disease . |
| 10 | Thus , although interest groups may look as if they are organized chiefly for public goods , in practice they are sustained by their ability to deliver selective incentives to their members which make joining worthwhile . |
| 11 | ‘ In light of the current recapitalisation , does it really look as if we are preparing to sell the company now ? ’ |
| 12 | What does it look as if you are going to do ? |
| 13 | Then they were both laughing , and the little woman , coming up and slapping Joe between the shoulders with such force that he coughed , said , ‘ Do n't look as if you are bein' confronted by a whale . |
| 14 | Howard and Felicity move slowly about with their champagne , like everybody else , trying to look as if they are heading somewhere purposeful , and quietly making little humorous comments on the proceedings to each other as they go . |
| 15 | I know the argument that it is necessary to look as if you are filling the political vacuum — if only with hot air — but I 'm beginning to wonder if it is worthwhile . |
| 16 | Ma and Father shake hands with everyone and look as if they are having a wonderful time . |
| 17 | Ms Khudiakova herself may , from time to time during the week of the show , model some of the 20 outfits — a red silk skirt patterned with the heads of workers who look as if they are marching when you walk in it , a red evening dress decorated with a swath of flowers reminiscent of the relief on a pavilion in Moscow 's Stalin-era Exhibition of Economic Achievements . |
| 18 | They lean back until they look as if they are about to fall over , so that they can look around them , and perhaps check who 's behind their back . |
| 19 | I think Dufy is quite wrong ; John Piper is more the type , his peculiar banks and cliffs which have no vegetation on them whatsoever yet look as if they are going to have tiny green shoots peeping out at any minute . |
| 20 | The folds look as if they are pushing Helmsdale right into the sea ; as though the river in spate had collected all the houses it could uproot inland and deposited them at the river mouth with just enough of a toehold to keep them there . |
| 21 | We all gladly agree that today most people of forty — or even fifty for that matter — look as if they are still in their thirties . |
| 22 | When Karl Kraus says that ‘ Some women are not beautiful — they just look as if they are ’ , we know what he means . |
| 23 | It , they , they certainly look as if they are sort of intended er to heat things up . |