Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it sound " in BNC.
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| 1 | Topics will include Compulsory Competitive Tendering , Local Management of Schools , the Community Charge and National Vocational Qualifications ( probably a lot more interesting than it sounds in black & white ! ) . |
| 2 | Maybe it 's more exciting than it sounds . |
| 3 | This is much easier than it sounds but not without snags . |
| 4 | This may sound a silly question , since this book assumes that its readers are looking for a place to live in the British Isles , but it is more sensible than it sounds . |
| 5 | ‘ If we thought it had something genuinely good about it , yes , but a lot of stuff is catchy and commercial because it sounds enough like everything else to be unchallenging and throwaway . |
| 6 | To Gray , this constant flying is not as inconvenient as it sounds . |
| 7 | ‘ That as unpleasant as it sounds ? ’ |
| 8 | Investigations were still proceeding , but unless Dalziel had some private little line well hidden from everyone else , the phrase was as empty as it sounded . |
| 9 | Admittedly , this last complaint , made at the very start of the chapter , is harsher than it sounds . |
| 10 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 11 | ( Since many farmers vote Socialist , this idea is less bland than it sounds . ) |
| 12 | The children had heard this song many times but they were always sad that it sounded such a lonely song . |
| 13 | Fine for some , sure , but a P-bass is very simple and it sounds bloody good . |
| 14 | This treatment , which originated in Japan , is by no means as violent as it sounds and it can be used , in varying degrees , on anyone from babies to the very old . |
| 15 | ‘ Art therapy is very much as it sounds , it is about people transferring feelings into something which is tangible , ’ said Gloria . |
| 16 | Termite fishing is not as simple or straightforward as it sounds . |
| 17 | Transforming a herd of myotonic goats into a passing-out parade is not as easy as it sounds . |
| 18 | This is not always as easy as it sounds . |
| 19 | So encouraging Dawn to feed when we were out of doors was not as easy as it sounds , because her attention was completely absorbed in what was happening around her . |
| 20 | This is not as easy as it sounds , because the Christian Democrats and PDS differ about which electoral system should be introduced . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , this is not as easy as it sounds . |
| 22 | Nowhere near as easy as it sounds , the trick is in the timing . |
| 23 | It 's not as easy as it sounds ! |
| 24 | This is n't as easy as it sounds because all the DOS 5 files are compressed . |
| 25 | This is not as easy as it sounds as it needs a change to the German constitution which requires a two third majority in the German parliament . |
| 26 | It 's not as easy as it sounds . |
| 27 | But knocking on the second door she came to was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 28 | They soon found that running Easy FM was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 29 | Making coffee , while Fen dealt swiftly and efficiently with the washing up , was not as simple as it sounded . |
| 30 | Inspection however is not as simple as it sounds . |