Example sentences of "as it sound " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished she meant it as blithe as it sounded . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Still , it did n't smell as bad as it sounded . |
| 4 | Phoebe relapsed into little disturbed ‘ ohs ’ rubbing her thin fingers and slithering to the edge of her chair , while Jess wondered what in the name of the Devil a syndicate was , and if a Frolic would be as jolly as it sounded . |
| 5 | But knocking on the second door she came to was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 6 | Investigations were still proceeding , but unless Dalziel had some private little line well hidden from everyone else , the phrase was as empty as it sounded . |
| 7 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 8 | Making coffee , while Fen dealt swiftly and efficiently with the washing up , was not as simple as it sounded . |
| 9 | If so was it as bad as it sounded on the radio ? |
| 10 | They soon found that running Easy FM was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 11 | You know , this is n't as silly an idea as it sounds . ’ |
| 12 | This is not as difficult to do as it sounds , simply because of the very broad maxima and minima . |
| 13 | The American corporation refuses to comment , of course , but the notion is not quite as bizarre as it sounds . |
| 14 | Debussy 's answer to a journalist who asked if he was familiar with heaven — ‘ yes , but I do n't natter about it with strangers ’ - is not so silly as it sounds . |
| 15 | Terrible as it sounds , you did n't want to be associated with that deprivation It was a downer You wanted out There was no question of not liking blacks , it was a question of social standing . |
| 16 | It no doubt helps if they are already pregnant ; but the notion is not as fanciful as it sounds . |
| 17 | PERVERSE as it sounds , western writers and intellectuals have often looked on the persecution of their East European counterparts with something like longing . |
| 18 | That is not as bad as it sounds . |
| 19 | Transforming a herd of myotonic goats into a passing-out parade is not as easy as it sounds . |
| 20 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 21 | As strange as it sounds , the great popularity of Hitler already before the war had for the most part little to do with fanatical belief in the central tenets of the Hitlerian racial-imperialist ‘ world-view ’ , and even less to do with belief in the Party , whose leader he was . |
| 22 | But it has turned out that the theory is as it sounds — too good to be true . |
| 23 | Significantly lower down on the status scale is Gatorland , where you can watch a Seminole Indian wrestle an alligator and later treat yourself to fried alligator tail at the snack bar ; it 's actually not as vile as it sounds . |
| 24 | Second , the notion of a continuum of restriction ranging from community penalties to custody — neat as it sounds — fails to acknowledge the unique and painful experience of imprisonment . |
| 25 | This feature is not as gimmicky as it sounds , as putting down a very hot air gun where it will not do any damage can often be a problem . |
| 26 | One ingenious attachment consists of a rotary wire flail , which is particularly useful , for carbon removal and is not as fierce as it sounds . |
| 27 | Inspection however is not as simple as it sounds . |
| 28 | As trite as it sounds , I had forgotten what greenness was until I saw those palms . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This is not always as easy as it sounds . |