Example sentences of "look [prep] if it [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the cadenza , she stumbled down the keyboard with something that had elements of a flourish but ended up sounding more like a digital coronary , an awful , shaming collapse of the fingers that , at the last minute , recovered itself and looked as if it might turn into something like the chord of A minor . |
| 2 | The peseta 's devaluation on May 13th looked as if it might help the right-of-centre opposition People 's Party , but the party 's leader , Jose Maria Aznar , failed to exploit the opportunity and polls taken after the devaluation showed the ruling Socialists nosing ahead . |
| 3 | Suddenly my short journalistic career looked as if it would stay short . |
| 4 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 5 | Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It looks as if it might cramp the teacher 's style . |
| 9 | Number 12a is a small building that looks as if it might house an unskilled worker with a large family . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It winds up the hillside , and looks as if it could become a raging torrent in wet weather . |
| 14 | ‘ It looks as if it could take a week — or more , ’ he read her question . |
| 15 | Looks as if it should have been done hours ago , if you ask me . |
| 16 | It does n't look as if it 'll factorize easily . |
| 17 | Geoffrey Smith , and his associates Michael Mackett and Bernard Moss , have been experimenting with the possibility of modifying vaccinia to make a vaccine against hepatitis B — a major health problem in the Third World — and it is beginning to look as if it might work ( Nature , vol 302 , p 490 ) . |
| 18 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 19 | He was thankful she was n't wearing boots but her hair had disappeared again under an awful black felt hat that looked as if it might have been her father 's , and when she handed her coat in at the cloakroom she kept the hat on . |
| 20 | It looked as if it would end up their lead story . |
| 21 | It looked as if it should have broken , amongst the pebbles in Adam 's bag . |