Example sentences of "looks [prep] if [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks as if we might have to pull back behind the Crozat Canal and hold St Simon . |
| 2 | Rather , it looks as if we will have to wait until the end of 1991 before we get any dramatic improvement . |
| 3 | It now looks as if we will have try again . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He 's circling again but if the undercarriage fails it looks as if he may have to make a crash landing . |
| 5 | Looks as if he might have to face a court-martial . ’ |
| 6 | Looks as if he might have |
| 7 | ‘ It looks as if he must have had a run-in with a few trees finding his way home that night . |
| 8 | Keyserling looks as if he could afford it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Looks as if she might harbour quite a temper there . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It looks as if it might cramp the teacher 's style . |
| 15 | Number 12a is a small building that looks as if it might house an unskilled worker with a large family . |
| 16 | These lists are not exhaustive — if they were they would fill the entire book — but work on the principle of : if it looks as if it will fit , then it probably will . |
| 17 | Microsoft Corp has been talking a little more about its planned Cairo — now called Windows Cairo — object-oriented operating system , and far from being a distant prospect , it looks as if it will come hard on the heels of Windows NT , with a professional developers ' kit available as soon as early next year according to the late Systems & Network Integration . |
| 18 | MITI had hoped to get the legislation through by next month , but it now looks as if it will have to wait until autumn before the ministries have talked it over . |
| 19 | It winds up the hillside , and looks as if it could become a raging torrent in wet weather . |
| 20 | ‘ It looks as if it could take a week — or more , ’ he read her question . |
| 21 | Looks as if it should have been done hours ago , if you ask me . |
| 22 | And while her heart plodded to a dull beat , ‘ It looks as if I shall have to work the entire weekend , ’ he stated . |
| 23 | ‘ It looks as if I 'll make that damned dancing class after all . |
| 24 | This year it looks as if I will have even more . |