Example sentences of "it looks [prep] if the " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER years of lobbying , it looks as if the Government will bring in legislation to force brewers to list the ingredients in their beers . |
| 2 | It remains to be seen whether they will still be in business to take the show to London in April ; it looks as if the outcome of the Northern group may rest on the Roses game later in the month . |
| 3 | Now it looks as if the wrong side won . |
| 4 | Quality , premiums , yields and timeliness are what the grain harvest is all about and so far it looks as if the malting trade may turn out not too bad . |
| 5 | With Bath to play their last match at home , it looks as if the title will once again belong to the West Country , even if Orrell were to win their last two games , as Bath 's points difference is much the greater . |
| 6 | It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality . |
| 7 | The 200 TDi is now fitted to the Defender range and it looks as if the old Land Rover 2.5 litre unit will be dropped . |
| 8 | It looks as if the day may not be so far away when we can all do our shopping , banking and working from our homes . |
| 9 | In this case too it looks as if the decision is out of line with the most obvious interpretation of the words . |
| 10 | At present , it looks as if the craft ( which will be launched in 1985 ) will carry only test signals to start with . |
| 11 | ‘ It looks as if the Whistler 's getting closer , does n't it , in more ways than one . ’ |
| 12 | It looks as if the adult-onset type of diabetes is most likely to appear among those who eat refined low-fibre foods . |
| 13 | Presumably ‘ he is trying to write a popular street ballad ; if so , it looks as if the stylistic crudities are an imitation of ‘ the idiom of the people ’ . |
| 14 | I 'm afraid that it looks as if the game will be completely ruined . |
| 15 | And now it looks as if the worst fears of the Foreign Office have been realised . |
| 16 | Number three has a quite different style of roundel and , to me it looks as if the tail stripe colours are reversed ! |
| 17 | From the admittedly fairly simplified drawings on the Cretan seals , it looks as if the Minoans were in fact building this type of vessel by about 1600 BC . |
| 18 | In Berkshire the Newbury clothiers were the richest men , although it looks as if the decline of the local broadcloth and kerseys had already begun , leaving a trail of poverty . |
| 19 | Already appearances by a whole host of top acts have been confirmed and it looks as if The Gasworks could well become one of the top clubs on the ever growing Ireland and UK comedy circuit . |
| 20 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 21 | In 1815 he returned to Karlovci to collect material for a second song book , which later inspired a glowing review from Jakob Grimm , in which he compared the Serbian love songs to Solomon 's Song of Songs and wrote that the ‘ Serbs are by virtue of their language … the most blessed with poems , songs and stories , and it looks as if the good God had , by this rich gift of popular poetry , wished to make up to them for their lack of books . ’ |
| 22 | " It looks as if the blood flowed fairly steadily , but without any preliminary splashing . |
| 23 | From the maps of the spread of the behaviour ( Figure 3.12 ) it looks as if the habit was invented independently more than once . |
| 24 | It looks as if the manuscript version ( with a different ordering from the printed one ) was the one submitted to Mizler , while the engraved plates may well not have been used until after Bach 's death , providing a companion to the posthumous printing of The art of fugue . |
| 25 | From the present state of the Ingard bank account it looks as if the deal has n't — or has n't yet — gone through . |
| 26 | Approaching the lodging house it looks as if the old harridan has got a gang together to repel unwelcome boarders . |
| 27 | The fact that virtually all of them cross the Roman road , which was created in the first century AD , suggests that at least some of these features were there in the landscape before the road was built ; here , as elsewhere , it looks as if the road was put in arbitrarily across the landscape with little heed to existing features , much as when new roads and motorways are built today . |
| 28 | At the moment it looks as if the end of term will see us all thrown on the job market . |
| 29 | ‘ It looks as if the fog wants to come in , ’ she said absently . |
| 30 | Given that Batch 3 courses are still to start — candidates will first enrol for them in the summer of 1992 — it looks as if the number of candidates involved in advanced courses in any one year is going to exceed 30,000 when the steady stage is eventually reached for the new system — and that the number of Higher National Unit enrolments per year will approach 200,000 . |