Example sentences of "as [subord] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that same adhesive — it looks as if it will have to be withdrawn ; there 's definitely some harmful irritant in it . ’ |
| 2 | Even the RP ‘ broad ’ [ a ] ( as in path , dance ) seems to have acquired its high evaluation only recently : Mugglestone ( 1989 ) cites evidence from the nineteenth century to the effect that it was stigmatized as a vulgarism by some commentators : it looks as though it may have been ‘ borrowed ’ from a low-status dialect ( such as ‘ Cockney ’ ) . |
| 3 | At times it seems as though it may have been evolved to do just that . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ What I 'm gon na do is … ’ ( he raises one finger then looks at it suspiciously , as though it may attack him or at worst disagree with him ) ‘ What I 'm gon na — what I 'm planning — ; all things being — ( thirty-second meaningful pause ) ‘ I mean , anything could happen , right ? |
| 5 | He had made her whole body feel as though it would explode at the slightest caress from him . |
| 6 | His hat was stuck on top of his head but it looked as though it would blow off at any minute . |
| 7 | The nuzzling continued as his lips found her own , teasing and provoking her to yearn for more depth in the caress , until suddenly he took possession of her mouth in a forceful kiss that went on and on as though it would last for ever . |
| 8 | With the match looking as though it would end goalless at the interval David Tate broke down the right and from his cross Ged Kennedy forced the ball home to give Eppleton the lead . |
| 9 | ‘ She did n't , I think , mention that , ’ Gilbert sounded detached , as though it would have been ill-mannered of him to enquire . |
| 10 | As though it would turn them to watercreeks . |
| 11 | Does it sound to you as though it would need a miracle to make randomly jostling atoms join together into a self-replicating molecule ? |
| 12 | That hair looks as though it 'll take a lot of coping with . ’ |
| 13 | He walked round the room , examining every object as though it might tell him some secret . |
| 14 | But the tail of the Mary Alice looked as though it might break off completely any minute and was causing such a drag that we had to fly back on our own . |
| 15 | ‘ Not much to tell , ’ she confessed , her voice as soft as his because talking seemed an intrusion , as though it might break the spell of enchantment she felt wrapped in . |
| 16 | Outside the day was fine enough , too clear perhaps ; each roughness on the skyline was sharply visible , as though it might rain later . |
| 17 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 18 | It feels almost as though it might stay this way for ever . ’ |
| 19 | She prayed for faith , addressing a God whom she had never altogether managed to believe in , but clinging to the structure of the Roman Catholic Church as though it might do instead . |
| 20 | Her voice was stretched very tight , as though it might snap at any moment and tumble her into tears . |
| 21 | As everyone left , clutching the fountain pens and the sugar-pastry city crests handed out by an exuberant San Francisco mayor , so the world 's thoughts were principally , and thankfully , concentrated on the reality that one war was now definitely over while another — that raging across the Ocean in Korea — was beginning to look as though it might end soon . |
| 22 | He kept glancing warily at his roll out of the comer of his eye , as though it might attack him . |
| 23 | He hesitated , looking round the shop as though it might help him to a decision . |
| 24 | The call had been made in good faith : a car had looked as though it might turn over , but in the event it had not . |
| 25 | But while his second innings batting on Monday looked as though it might save the match , his bowling was desperately short of aggression and conviction . |
| 26 | Most initiatives arose from the ‘ movement left ’ — that amorphous network of local groupings , cultural ventures and autonomous campaigns that was the legacy of the libertarian revolts of the late 1960s and early 1970s — rather than from within the existing labour movement ( apart from the Institute for Workers ' Control , which in the mid-1970s looked as though it might become a major national forum for the newer movements of the 1970s and the earlier generation of intellectuals and trade unionists who had quit the Communist Party after 1956 ) . |
| 27 | There was a ‘ Sold ’ sticker on the board , and she stood gazing at it for a moment as though it might provide a magic solution to all her problems . |
| 28 | Taking the key out , and looking at it , as though it might have changed without her knowledge , she jabbed it back in and twisted violently . |
| 29 | It walked sideways on its perch and hunched its shoulders , looking slyly up at her as though it could tell a tale or two , if it chose . |
| 30 | It was an uncompromising block which looked as though it could withstand a siege . |