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Example sentences of "looks as [subord] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Now it looks as if nothing could stop West Germany taking the lead with her unbeatable combination of credentials : guilt , enthusiasm , material interest and money .
2	‘ It looks as if we might be in for a bit of a blow , ’ he remarked .
3	Watching him , Polly saw his jaw tighten , but all he said was , ‘ It looks as if we might be in for another blow . ’
4	It looks as if we might have to pull back behind the Crozat Canal and hold St Simon .
5	It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money .
6	Rather , it looks as if we will have to wait until the end of 1991 before we get any dramatic improvement .
7	‘ It looks as if we will be playing in Belfast . ’
8	It now looks as if we will have try again . ’
9	At the wheel of the XJR-S on a traffic-laden A11 , pushing the big car past streams of trucks at high speed , Brundle 's driving is like a chauffeur 's : it looks as if anybody could do what he is doing .
10	‘ He 's circling again but if the undercarriage fails it looks as if he may have to make a crash landing .
11	‘ Yes , it is weird , and I do n't think he is completely right in the head , Ari , but I 'm afraid it looks as if he might be telling the truth . ’
12	So that the next time a shop assistant ( particularly one who looks as if he might not know what day of the week it is ) asks how Sir or Madam will be paying they 'll say ‘ Cash ’ and make quite sure they rip up the receipt as they leave .
13	Looks as if he might have to face a court-martial . ’
14	Looks as if he might tonight but , mind , it 's only for Lyndsey 's room .
15	Looks as if he might have
16	‘ It looks as if he must have had a run-in with a few trees finding his way home that night .
17	But it looks as if he could be an Orthodox er Jewish Orthodox priest .
18	Keyserling looks as if he could afford it .
19	Now 52 , he has dominated grand de luxe fashion for two decades , and he looks as if he will continue to be a powerful force in fashion into the twenty-first century .
20	‘ Looks as if she might harbour quite a temper there . ’
21	The Queen Mother is of course impeccably bred , though she 's failed to make it to the last 3 Chelsea Flower Shows and looks as if she 'll remain at home again this year .
22	very pretty and er , it looks as if she ought to have been up the disco having a dance , any way
23	My friend , however , possessed a Toyota Hilux four-wheel-drive pick-up truck , and there can be no better vehicle in which to trespass than one that looks as if it would get your daughter pregnant and drink all your beer .
24	In black this detailing might be inoffensive , but in colour-coordinated white the Carlsson looks as if it would enjoy nothing more than hanging around outside Stringfellows waiting to pick up Page Three girls .
25	But it looks as if it may not all be called .
26	The collapse of Taurus will also give revenue an unexpected bonus as the scrapping of stamp duty on share dealings will be postponed , while Government borrowing looks as if it may not be spiralling out of control at quite the rate first feared .
27	It looks as if it ought to be with the compound ones but it 's not .
28	That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from .
29	Tanners Wine Merchants on Wyler Cop is a good place to visit : it looks as if it might be trade only , but is n't : march round the back , through the yard and go in .
30	We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected .