Example sentences of "but it [verb] [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 But it does look as though the whole business is irretrievably in their hands now — an impression strengthened by the deafening silence in response to the honest and serious disclosures I made .
2 But it began to look as though they were destined to attend at least part of the party .
3 Your address is best stated as , but it keeps appearing as ( or worse ) .
4 The lawyer was hoping to find a will but it begins to look as though Matthew died intestate . ’
5 As in Belcourt I think to myself : I am seeing what he saw , the same light , the sky , but it fails to work as it should ; it changes nothing , neither enhances nor diminishes my experience of the place .
6 The best moment on ‘ Strangeways , Here We Come ’ was , strangely , the most obvious statement Morrissey ever made in a lyric , ‘ Paint A Vulgar Picture ’ offered no new insights to the tacky edge of such a subject , but it did sound as though he had finally decided to cast away all the ambiguity of his writing and head , simplistically , for the jugular .
7 But it has remained as puzzling to modern historians as it was shocking to contemporaries .
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