Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] it [verb] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way I looked at was a rubbish tip , that bit it looks as if he 's cleared and the grass is growing . |
| 2 | Although light is made up of waves , Planck 's quantum hypothesis tells us that in some ways it behaves as if it were composed of particles : it can be emitted or absorbed only in packets , or quanta . |
| 3 | In this respect it looks as if some Latin American leaders and regimes may understand better what is needed than the more formal and even ossified democracies of the West . |
| 4 | But on this journey it seemed as if the whole land of Masuria was faithful to the Hooked cross . |
| 5 | This year it looks as if I will have even more . |
| 6 | Covered in sharp angled corners it feels as if the slightest pressure would collapse it . |
| 7 | 4-0 up and with the pack apparantly in tremendous form it looked as if Gloucester would sew up the game in the first half . |
| 8 | For a brief moment it looked as if someone was on fire . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I wanted to concentrate the space to the sculptural potential it aspires to but does not fulfil , which meant that the two elements I decided to use needed to have a weight and mass comparable to that of the architecture . |
| 11 | For a long time it felt as if that was all she could do . |
| 12 | For a long time it looked as if Newcastle were going to leave with the three points they so desperately needed and it was the visitors who drew first blood . |
| 13 | As it happened Namibia won the game and the tournament , but for a long time it looked as if the Zimbabweans would win , leaving the hitherto unbeaten Namibians out in the cold . |
| 14 | Day after day the German heavies pounded the corpses in this gully , until they were quartered , and re-quartered ; to one eye-witness it seemed as if it were filled with dismembered limbs that no one could or would bury . |
| 15 | At first sight it looks as if memes are not high-fidelity replicators at all . |
| 16 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 17 | The new remedy rapidly encroached upon the spheres of trespass and replevin so that at one time it looked as if any ‘ asportation ’ or moving of the property might be regarded not only as a trespass to it but also conversion of it , but this very wide doctrine was restricted to a principle that the dealing with the goods must amount to a denial of the owner 's title . |
| 18 | At one stage it looked as if Gordon Hotson , of Sleaford , would put in a severe challenge , but after being five under in his second round he slipped back to a 69 , finishing a stroke behind the leaders . |
| 19 | The 24-year-old , runner-up in the recent Welsh Amateur Championship , scored his best win to date by two strokes from MacPherson , when at one stage it looked as if he would miss the cut . |
| 20 | At one stage it looked as if the balloon was going to take off regardless of the wishes of its crew who fought valiantly to keep it tethered . |
| 21 | At one stage it appears as if the substantive meaning of unreasonable is simply one strand of the umbrella to be juxtaposed to irrelevancy , mala fide , etc . |
| 22 | And when Biarritz scored a quick try and Blanco landed a sensational penalty from about 60 metres it looked as if a miracle seemed possible simply because so many people passionately wanted it to happen . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For several moments it seemed as if he might refuse to go with her , then he decided that he would . |
| 25 | For an agonising moment it felt as if she was naked again , under the intent , laughing scrutiny of those cruel grey eyes . |
| 26 | To my childish imagination it seemed as if she was still alive to what was happening and was showing her disapproval . |
| 27 | In the papers the next day it looked as if the funeral parlour heads were sanctioning the transfer of power , as if they were acknowledging Creed 's pre-eminence , as if they were paying homage . |
| 28 | The next day it seemed as if everyone in the school knew . |
| 29 | Last year it bid for and received £940,000 . |