Example sentences of "[adj] than [pron] 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 | ‘ You 're tougher than you look . ’ |
| 7 | That is , if you 're tougher than you look . |
| 8 | You 're a lot tougher than you look . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're a whole lot tougher than you look , Fran . |
| 10 | Jacqueline was evidently tougher than she looked : a slight , waifish creature with spiky hair and swollen , arthritic knuckles . |
| 11 | The chap was more sensible than he looked . |
| 12 | Yet the Berlin settlement was less stable than it looked . |
| 13 | Foreign investors are beginning to worry that the Mexican peso is less solid than it looks . |
| 14 | Fortunately , it 's simpler than it looks . |
| 15 | This is less odd than it looks : it pays creditors to avoid the delays and legal costs of chapter 11 . |
| 16 | ‘ It was all a lot less real than it looked . |
| 17 | jetskiing across flooded fields is more dangerous than it looks , because of the hiden dangers of submerged fence posts and barbed wire . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | EBBERSTON HALL is Palladian to the hilt and also much bigger than it looks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So we actually saw it all , erm it 's actually quite a lot bigger than it looks . |
| 22 | He was much heavier than he looked and the chair kept banging against the rock . |
| 23 | Thinking that it was heavier than it looked , he undid the straps and buckles and threw back the flap . |
| 24 | It was heavier than it looked . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ These hills are a lot steeper than they look , ’ Rogers said . |
| 27 | Unlike the rock pitch on the Wellenkuppe , the gendarme turned out to be steeper than it looked . |
| 28 | Acrylic tends to dry less opaque than it look when wet , and it may take repeated overpainting when thin layers of colour are used to cover completely something underneath . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's a lot deeper than it looks , ’ she cautioned the children . |
| 30 | Zambia Crevecoeur rested hir chin on hir hand in the habitual siren pose , and said , ‘ Well , I feel better than you look , I guess . ’ |