Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb -s] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she looks as if she knows what she 's doing . |
| 2 | but he talks as if he , he was born in that country , I mean I could be really patriotic to Wales |
| 3 | More recently , in the third wave of technology the man has been removed from the responsibility for continuous control ( this is best done by computers working to a moderately flexible range of programs ) but he remains as the monitor of the system performance and a selector of the appropriate program determined by the changing short-term objectives . |
| 4 | But he looks as if he was still left with a shooting chance . |
| 5 | I thought Seb had gone out , but it sounds as if he 'd there with his friends . ’ |
| 6 | IBM Corp has filed a $7.3m federal lawsuit against Nutri-System Inc , saying the debt-ridden diet company failed to make payments on 500 personal computers it had leased — but it sounds as if the Armonkeys will have to sing for their money : the suit accuses the Blue Bell , Pennsylvania , company of making no payments since December and of refusing to allow IBM to repossess the machines , but some of Nutri-System 's major franchisees have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws — Chapter 7 means curtains — and last week , banks seized all its cash and bank accounts , forcing the company to close its 283 company-owned weight-loss centres across the US ; while Nutri-System has failed to pay only $965,380 due under its lease with IBM , a default entitles IBM to recover the full lease sum of $7.3m . |
| 7 | ‘ Good Lord , he wrote books too : Foreign Debt : A Paupr 's Promise , not exactly a snappy title but it sounds as if he saw something the New York banks did n't and The Credit of Faith . ’ |
| 8 | But it sounds as if it 's paid off . |
| 9 | But it sounds as if it 's a sort of family evening though does n't it ? |
| 10 | But it sounds as those , those two probably have the same feelings as you do , when it comes to the crunch they do n't make a note |
| 11 | Ari strains and tumbles in the foam , but it seems as if her insides have become hard and dark . |
| 12 | ‘ I never did hold much of a brief for your father , but it seems as if your mother was n't much better ! ’ he said , his voice making clear how lacking in sympathy he found her family . |
| 13 | Concern about rabies may seem a somewhat trivial issue in a discussion of the huge topic of preventing infection , but it serves as a reminder that prevention is a subject which will always be fundamental to maintaining a safe environment , though the precise nature of the concern will vary among countries and over time . |
| 14 | The industrious biographer of Bernard Shaw has just completed the fourth volume , but it appears as if bricks , not books , will finish him off . |
| 15 | Without a detailed analysis , one can not be certain , but it appears as if the Scottish universities , with their significant proportions of general courses , are fairly evenly spread in terms of Figure 3.1 , whereas universities in the rest of the UK seem to emphasize the academic or professional and de-emphasize the general . |
| 16 | ‘ But it looks as if I 've been lucky and escaped the worst of it . |
| 17 | Ca n't be certain , but it looks as if Allied Signal Corp chief executive Lawrence Bossidy has ruled himself out of the running for the top job at IBM Corp : he says that although he is ‘ flattered to be mentioned as a candidate for chairman of another company , I intend to remain at Allied-Signal to complete the job I came here to do . ’ |
| 18 | I thought to myself , ‘ I have n't bought any tickets for the raffle but it looks as if I have won first prize . ’ |
| 19 | It is certainly true that some of the processes associated with standardization ( on which see Haugen , 1972 ; Leith , 1980 ; J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) were well under way around 1600 ( elaboration of function , use of a supra-regional writing system ) , but it looks as if some of them were still at the stage of being localized developments associated with the establishment of consensus on local norms , and this applies particularly to pronunciation , which is the level of language that is least uniform . |
| 20 | But it looks as if he went in and said ‘ I 'll have that wall . ’ |
| 21 | I am not quite sure from the map where Presteigne station was , but it looks as if the PCBCR would not have run into it directly , merely to a junction outside the town . |
| 22 | But it looks as if he could be an Orthodox er Jewish Orthodox priest . |
| 23 | We 'll have to check them out of course , but it looks as if Comrade Chatterton has sold over a hundred thousand pounds ’ worth of wine in the last ten years . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
| 25 | But it looks as if it may not all be called . |
| 26 | Tbilisi have 48 hours to appeal the decision but it looks as if Linfield are back in the competition — and suddenly £100,000 better off courtesy of UEFA payments and television rights . |
| 27 | But it looks as if he was strangled , might have been drugged . |
| 28 | But it looks as if it looks as though she stands there and something just drops |
| 29 | Yes , but it looks as if it is in good nick . |