Example sentences of "[adj] as it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This passage is interesting as it assumes that there would have been no right of recovery in any of the cases to which the section referred although had the Woolwich principle been applicable there would have been recovery , apart from the section , in some . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is n't as easy as it sounds because all the DOS 5 files are compressed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To see this double image as joined to a symbol of the grave ‘ that linked one Vincent to the other ’ is not as far-fetched as it appears when one sees the multiplicity of twinned and fused pairs appearing later : pairs of cottages , trees , and chairs , as well as of people on roads or seated at tables , overlapping or merged or shadowed . |
| 7 | Hidden behind their line of sight was a precision , a passion , a calling which chilled as it touched and made the other two pause . |
| 8 | The Stylesetter Award is particularly gratifying as it confirms that Stoddard Templeton is continuing to lead the way in carpet development through its design expertise . |
| 9 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 10 | Mrs Hollidaye 's voice was comforting as it rose and fell like the wind . |
| 11 | The moon had almost set and the night was now dark , but they could see the water faintly shining as it flowed and could just make out , on the further side , a thin belt of nut-trees and alders . |
| 12 | This heading , which the report uses , is illuminating as it indicates that , for the government at least , old age and disability are synonymous . |
| 13 | As long as it go when you push down it locks it 's fine . |
| 14 | He did n't care when it happened , as long as it did and that Hana would be alright again . |
| 15 | I stand listening for a moment — crying could ruin everything — but there 's only the rhythmic suck-suck , suck-suck , suck-suck as it breathes and sucks on the medicine . |
| 16 | The brew was very important as it completed or shut up the work . |
| 17 | He was attracted to her , as any red-blooded male would be to any presentable woman in these circumstances , but that was as far as it went and it was up to her to make sure her own feelings did n't betray her . |
| 18 | Now the Sale of Goods Act is good erm as far as it goes but it 's |
| 19 | More weed and a seed quickly becomes established in cracks on the asphalt In future years even willow trees will be in a foothold to these doomed power stations stands firm and proud as it slips and silently into decay |
| 20 | This really is not as difficult as it sounds as the strong lights black out the background and the cameras are surprisingly easy to ignore . |
| 21 | The petrol tank split open as it rolled and most of the gas spilled out over the hill . ’ |
| 22 | The defendants ' conduct in subsequently honouring the advertisement was irrelevant as it occurred after the offence had been committed . |
| 23 | Fergus waited until the herd was as close as it looked like it was going to come , then sighted on the limping beast , still two hundred yards away . |
| 24 | But : ‘ Arbitrary as it seems when only its individual terms are considered , the system becomes coherent when it is seen as a whole set ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 25 | A priori this latter feature might be thought somewhat undesirable as it implies that the higher the rate of growth of wealth the lower the share of the total portfolio held within the UK . |
| 26 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 27 | This was odd as it indicated that the winter flock had already scattered as separate pairs at this very early date . |
| 28 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 29 | However it is n't quite as bad as it looks because the amount that you will have paid in will only feel like £4,520 . |
| 30 | Month after month , as the British economy has languished in a deep and damaging recession , the only reaction from a puzzled and beleaguered Government is the claim that it is not as bad as it seems and that good times are round the corner . |