Example sentences of "[adj] than it look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Berlin settlement was less stable than it looked . |
| 2 | Foreign investors are beginning to worry that the Mexican peso is less solid than it looks . |
| 3 | This is less odd than it looks : it pays creditors to avoid the delays and legal costs of chapter 11 . |
| 4 | ‘ It was all a lot less real than it looked . |
| 5 | jetskiing across flooded fields is more dangerous than it looks , because of the hiden dangers of submerged fence posts and barbed wire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 8 | As for the scene in the Sammath Naur , it is even more providential than it looks . |
| 9 | The tiny chrome box fits in the palm of your hand ; the razor is less fragile than it looks . |
| 10 | He learnt one thing : ‘ that to paint in watercolour is far more difficult than it looks . ’ |
| 11 | Lisa dived in hungrily , spreading butter and honey on a croissant , and reflecting as she washed down the first bite with coffee that it was even more delicious than it looked . |
| 12 | Alix admitted what Liz already knew , that she and Sebastian had been less than happy , that the idyll had been less golden than it looked . |
| 13 | That is less bad than it looks ; in Tokyo , the stockmarket yields only 0.8% these days . |