Example sentences of "looked as [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interior was probably quite well furnished in the ordinary way , but right now it looked as if a tornado had been through it . |
| 2 | He must have been about seventeen and was so-pale and thin he looked as if a gust of wind might blow him away . |
| 3 | There was a time , at the end of summer , a hopeful time , when it looked as if a lot of would-be railway companies would simply vanish , like the mushrooms they were . |
| 4 | And when Biarritz scored a quick try and Blanco landed a sensational penalty from about 60 metres it looked as if a miracle seemed possible simply because so many people passionately wanted it to happen . |
| 5 | The car was so low it looked as if a giant had tried to stub it out and it was clear that getting out of the bucket seat gave the Greek momentary altitude sickness . |
| 6 | The shelf was full , except for a small gap , where it looked as if a book had been taken out . |
| 7 | There were swift and dramatic changes of scenery , from towering mountains to beautiful , peaceful valleys , wooded and secret , places that looked as if no man had ever discovered them . |
| 8 | ‘ Mrs Army Captain' was often in tears , for it looked as if the Army boys would be in the Ravenna mud until the spring . |
| 9 | At one stage it looked as if the balloon was going to take off regardless of the wishes of its crew who fought valiantly to keep it tethered . |
| 10 | One of the critics of the Touche Ross report , Professor Arthur Midwinter , of the department of politics at Strathclyde University , said last night that it now looked as if the scope for savings would be narrowed to the point where it had to be asked whether it was worthwhile proceeding with the reforms . |
| 11 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 12 | Matthew looked as if the snub had made him angry . |
| 13 | For the first time , the Christian Democrat vote was less than 30 per cent for both Houses of Parliament — though by the vagaries of the complex system of distributing seats it looked as if the alliance might get a majority in the lower house , the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 14 | It looked as if the defence had made its point . |
| 15 | Now it looked as if the choice had been taken away from her . |
| 16 | A magnified detail drew attention to the skin ; although I could not understand the symbols appended , it looked as if the idea was that the outer skin should have less sensibility , by the withdrawal of nerves and capilliary blood-vessels from the outer layers of the epidermis — in fact , that a sort of hide should develop over the flesh which would render its owner fairly immune to extremes of temperature . |
| 17 | There was a huge row within the Owen family and for a while it looked as if the plug would be pulled immediately . |
| 18 | However , the only disaster occurred inside the Tower , where the duty staff dived to the floor when it looked as if the port wing was going to come through the window and a bottle of red ink emptied itself down the right sleeve of Flt Lt Dunlop , the Officer in Charge . |
| 19 | It looked as if the serenity of the evening had just come to an end ! |
| 20 | The Dark Elves were too strong and it looked as if the Everqueen , the spiritual leader of Ulthuan , would fall into their clutches . |
| 21 | But it looked as if the title might yet be decided on the flip of a Manly-sized wave after all . |
| 22 | Just when it looked as if the flood was winning again , technology came to the rescue . |
| 23 | Up to the time of the publication of the Bullock Report ( DES , 1975 ) , it looked as if the movement towards a serious consideration of language was irreversible . |
| 24 | For the moment , however , it looked as if the matter was on its way to being resolved . |
| 25 | It looked as if the rock had flowed around the pistol , curling strands of stone that gripped the barrel and the trigger-guard . |
| 26 | In the papers the next day it looked as if the funeral parlour heads were sanctioning the transfer of power , as if they were acknowledging Creed 's pre-eminence , as if they were paying homage . |
| 27 | In 1936 it looked as if the game had finally made a breakthrough when a national competition , involving teams from Gorky , Minsk , Baku and Moscow , was organised ; but someone at the Kremlin decreed that rugby was a capitalist pastime , and the game sank into oblivion once again . |
| 28 | Both German and Polish farmers made a tidy profit from the deal , and on paper it looked as if the Commission had ‘ Germanised ’ a farm . |
| 29 | For a moment Lambert want rigid with horror as it looked as if the fire would fall on top of them ; but they drifted clear . |
| 30 | Its windows had been spray-painted in blues and reds so that from a distance it looked as if the bus had curtains on the outside . |