Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 2 | It looks it looks as if it is . |
| 3 | The loss of the Herald of Free Enterprise led to the collapse of Flexilink 's campaign but the industry has regained confidence since 1987 , partly because of a conviction that the government wants it to survive as a competitive spur to Eurotunnel . |
| 4 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 5 | Microtek , a well-known manufacturer of low-cost flatbed scanners , has recently introduced software that allows it to act as an OCR scanner as well . |
| 6 | SVR4.2 , with its integral desktop manager , optimised performance , and modularity that allows it to run as a client in only 4Mb memory , 60Mb disk — highly impressive when compared to its current competitor , OS/2 — ships in July in source code form for OEMs , in its Intel version only , for AT , EISA and MCA buses . |
| 7 | Tanya Lake has just passed PE2 , first time as with all her exams , but says it came as no surprise to her when her audit partner at Chantrey Vellacott told her that her contract would not be renewed . |
| 8 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 9 | It seems it served as a market centre because it was on a major Roman road . |
| 10 | It seems it served as a market centre because it was on a major Roman road . |
| 11 | So when the cry is heard again just before the curtain falls it comes as a final appeal for help . |
| 12 | It may be helpful at this stage to sketch some of the details of the structure of Highlander which enables it to function as an effective , independent centre of adult education . |
| 13 | Er erm I 'm sorry it is the question now that I 'm going to come to was going back to organisation how often does the board meet ? and who does it regard as ? |
| 14 | If Foucault 's Pendulum fails as a novel , does it work as an intellectual game ? |
| 15 | Does it work as a piece of design ? |
| 16 | Or does it count as petty thieving ? ’ |
| 17 | Does it count as all cancer , what 's a definition of a heart attack . |
| 18 | Does it sound as if I am striving to avoid saying that the music is boring ? |
| 19 | What does it look as if you are going to do ? |
| 20 | Porcupine Puffer — does it inflate as a sign of distress , or is it a type of courting ritual ? |
| 21 | What then does teacher education involve and how does it differ as a concept from teacher training ? |
| 22 | Even if the typical criminal sanction holds out little hope as a general deterrent , does it act as a specific deterrent ? |
| 23 | This makes it feel as if alignments between object correspond to ‘ sticky ’ patches on the screen . |
| 24 | Firstly , they bind a piece of writing together as a single entity , giving it a connectedness that makes it read as a whole rather than as a string of separate jottings . |
| 25 | The author makes it seem as if in this euphemistic world , tradesmen , dealers — men of the flesh — have refined themselves out of existence , and have imparted their qualities to the shop itself , its furniture and fittings , in a general ambience of discretion . |
| 26 | They seem colosally indifferent to this place , and that makes it seem as if maybe they would be indifferent to her . |
| 27 | But expressing it like this makes it look as if there could be a quality of ‘ in-the-foot-ness ’ , and this is absurd since position is not a quality . |
| 28 | If getting to the last eight of the Scottish Cup makes it look as if I have taken to management like a duck to water , I would be telling lies if I said the job was easy . |
| 29 | The transcription makes it look as if the difference between these words was clear ; it is not . |
| 30 | Mark , the earliest Gospel , makes it sound as if Jesus does not allow divorce under any circumstance ; but Matthew modifies it to allow that some circumstances may make remarriage legitimate . |