Example sentences of "it [modal v] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knows but that it may look very different to bigger , different beings ? |
| 2 | It may look excessive , but this stout staking really pays off |
| 3 | ‘ It may look a mess in them stables but it 's all in here , ’ Stanley said , pointing to his brain . |
| 4 | Ludens , I 'm in love , I 'm desperate with love , I 'm sunk in it , I 'm ruthless , I feel as fierce as hell about this , I could kill anyone who stands in the way , I must have both of them , and I will , all right it may look like a battlefield , but what has to be done has to be done now and like this . |
| 5 | It may look easy from the safety of the burn 's heathery banks , but you would be wringing out your underpants if you found yourself clinging to near-vertical rock at the crest of the ridge by pursuing such a daft route . |
| 6 | It may even be morally permissible to kill the child ; but the criminal law neither now nor in the future will countenance this , though it may look the other way from time to time . |
| 7 | From the outside , it may look like a static heap of boiler slag , but it 's still very much alive , and mobile lava is still arriving deep within it and pushing forward . |
| 8 | Though it may look easy there is a right way to walk , to sit , to turn , to remove a coat . ’ |
| 9 | It may look more difficult but it 's not . |
| 10 | ‘ Now it may look like I 'm just messing around with cars , but my job as a Kwik-Fit fitter means I 've always got plenty to do . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Oh me , but I 'm not hanging around , though it may look like it . |
| 12 | While it may look slightly imposing , in reality the R450 is as easy to use as any tuner you 've ever tried . |
| 13 | And Colin Powell , former player and now head groundsman , insists : ‘ It may look chaos at the moment , but actually there 's only a little bit of tidying up to do . ’ |
| 14 | IT may look like an everyday scene from any hospital operating theatre but this medical team has an unusual extra member . |
| 15 | It has been pointed out that you need to knit two straight rows after each transfer and , at first , glance , it may look as though you do n't knit the two rows after a plain arrow for this punchcard . |
| 16 | Now that you understand why these lace carriage movements occur you should be able to operate the carriage happily , knowing that although it may look unorthodox , there is a good reason for each instruction . |
| 17 | It may look invulnerable but ‘ Shine On ’ is far from being perfect . |
| 18 | It may look again at relaxing restrictions on a repurchase market in gilts and on stock lending , both of which flourish in America . |
| 19 | According to the head teacher ‘ It may look very nice but we have a lot of difficult families and children . ’ |
| 20 | To all intents and purposes it is legal — it may look ugly but so do most of the putters these days , and the design has obviously been passed by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club , which does exercise a very tight control over such matters . |
| 21 | He explains : ‘ It may look like a poor run for a player of Neil 's calibre , but he 's been out with a hamstring problem for much of the time . |
| 22 | Another disadvantage of this type of competition is that it may look just a little too difficult and thus put off some of the would-be entrants . |
| 23 | Sir I commend to you the expert evidence relating to the historic character and I hope sir when you visit this site , although it may look very different at this moment from the way it would have done had you been able to visit it after the originally scheduled date of this enquiry , when the daffodils were out , |
| 24 | Even though it may look a little rough on the screen , when it prints out it will all be reproduced correctly through the magic of PostScript . |
| 25 | To the outsider it may look somewhat robotic in its execution ; but each technique that is performed helps to familiarize the students with real conditions under fire . |
| 26 | The image presented , whilst it may look like a visible image , it is in reality a complex pattern of temperature differences , and this means that there are a wide range of uses for thermal imaging technologies apart from the obvious military and firefighting applications . |
| 27 | It may look like a crumbling chocolate sundae but it tastes like the finest birthday cake you ever had , covered with cream and laced with rum . |
| 28 | If workers in employment or those unemployed are not fully aware of the general nature of the price increases in the economy , it may look to them as if these nominal wage increases represent higher real wages . |
| 29 | A great family such as the Milettis is like a sleeping bear : it may look massively apathetic and unimpressionable but each hair of its pelt is wired straight into the creature 's brain , and if you twitch it the wrong way the thing will flex its tendons and turn on you , unzipping its claws . |
| 30 | That rudder movement equals braking and so it 's slowing you down , it may look impressive being heeled over like this but I 'd sail a lot faster if the boat were flat . |