Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] it sound " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished she meant it as blithe as it sounded . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ That as unpleasant as it sounds ? ’ |
| 6 | To Gray , this constant flying is not as inconvenient as it sounds . |
| 7 | Making coffee , while Fen dealt swiftly and efficiently with the washing up , was not as simple as it sounded . |
| 8 | Inspection however is not as simple as it sounds . |
| 9 | It is not as simple as it sounds , but a shared openness to God in life and in marriage makes every difference . |
| 10 | This task is by no means as simple as it sounds . |
| 11 | This is not quite as simple as it sounds : the camera operators have to shoot in such a way that their two pictures will edit together , and skilled editing is required . |
| 12 | But knocking on the second door she came to was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 13 | They soon found that running Easy FM was n't as easy as it sounded . |
| 14 | Transforming a herd of myotonic goats into a passing-out parade is not as easy as it sounds . |
| 15 | This is not always as easy as it sounds . |
| 16 | So encouraging Dawn to feed when we were out of doors was not as easy as it sounds , because her attention was completely absorbed in what was happening around her . |
| 17 | This is not as easy as it sounds , because the Christian Democrats and PDS differ about which electoral system should be introduced . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , this is not as easy as it sounds . |
| 19 | Nowhere near as easy as it sounds , the trick is in the timing . |
| 20 | It 's not as easy as it sounds ! |
| 21 | This is n't as easy as it sounds because all the DOS 5 files are compressed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It 's not as easy as it sounds . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 26 | The measure is not as draconian as it sounds . |
| 27 | It is not quite as racy as it sounds . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As trite as it sounds , I had forgotten what greenness was until I saw those palms . |