Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it look " in BNC.

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1 The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top .
2 Getting upside-down is far easier than it looks — it just needs the right combination or circumstances .
3 Fortunately it 's easier than it looks , but still full Very Severe .
4 Putting on the roof was the most satisfying job : it is precision work which is easier than it looks — particularly with the plastic ridge fixings and verges .
5 MAKING BRANDY SNAPS is much easier than it looks .
6 I 'm afraid that it looks as if the game will be completely ruined .
7 A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … .
8 The novice chase received an entry of 12 and it looks as though a handful of runners will go to post .
9 A second retirement followed in 1985 and it looks as though Lauda is going to stick to his word this time .
10 The thing about community life is that even setting aside the actual word arts through the way in which community arts workers work with small groups of people who have come together because they 're doing something interesting because it looks something that they want to do , brings groups of people together .
11 A little embarrassed because it looked as though she had been prying , Meredith murmured , ‘ I 'm not much of a cook . ’
12 One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty .
13 The decoration is therefore not quite as free as it looks , in reality forming part of an evolved construction .
14 The wall is not as steep as it looks and a pleasing sequence of stretches and foot-changes , made all the more enjoyable by more excellent protection , leads to a stopping place just short of the arête .
15 Yet the Berlin settlement was less stable than it looked .
16 Foreign investors are beginning to worry that the Mexican peso is less solid than it looks .
17 Fortunately , it 's simpler than it looks .
18 This is less odd than it looks : it pays creditors to avoid the delays and legal costs of chapter 11 .
19 ‘ It was all a lot less real than it looked .
20 jetskiing across flooded fields is more dangerous than it looks , because of the hiden dangers of submerged fence posts and barbed wire .
21 Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside .
22 EBBERSTON HALL is Palladian to the hilt and also much bigger than it looks .
23 The statue is much bigger than it looks ; it is always foreshortened because of the need to look sharply upward , and is actually over 4 metres high .
24 So we actually saw it all , erm it 's actually quite a lot bigger than it looks .
25 Thinking that it was heavier than it looked , he undid the straps and buckles and threw back the flap .
26 It was heavier than it looked .
27 As suggested , the CD3 is a simple , almost artless player , rather heavier than it looks , but simply built , with a bent metal box fronted by a smart alloy front panel extrusion and a drawer whose rather stately progress in and out of the player was bettered by an earlier sample I examined .
28 It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life .
29 People know this , they identify with this , they recognise that you 're back-tracking and it looks as though your ke case is hereby weakened .
30 I thought the shoulder of lamb would be much nicer and it looked nice and fresh !
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