Example sentences of "[adv] look [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
| 2 | ABS Computers Ltd , formerly the Allied Business Systems small business computer manufacturer , has long looked a vestigial part of the Trafalgar House Plc empire , too small to turn up in the annual report , and giving the impression that top management was unaware of its existence . |
| 3 | I had to admit that the young men leaving that room all looked a bit shattered and one almost reeled out , holding his mouth with both hands . |
| 4 | There is of course the argument about the maintenance of the countryside and that the countryside only looks the way it does , because of the fox hunting . |
| 5 | Babies put on a lot of fat in the last few weeks before they are born , so looked a poor little skinny scrap of a thing . |
| 6 | Iced only on top , so looks a bit bare without its gold band . |
| 7 | With so many other potential challengers struggling , United are suddenly looking the team most likely to win the Premier League . |
| 8 | If opinions are what you seek , you are probably better looking a source written at the time of the issue you have chosen by a person of sound mind . |
| 9 | Flowers , a surprise call-up a month ago when the squads for the World Cup double in Poland and Norway were announced , so much looked the part as Chris Woods 's stand-in that he may have leapfrogged up the goalkeeping queue . |
| 10 | To others she merely looked a bit different , and it lent her glamour , but to him , she was as different as anyone who was n't black . |
| 11 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 12 | A big grey five-year-old , Sunset And Vine jumped well in the Lily Tree Novice Hurdle and stormed home well clear looking a horse with a real future — some of it , I hope on the right channel . |
| 13 | Most people around here would have just looked the other way . ’ |
| 14 | He no longer looks the beady-eyed and pitted-faced thug . |
| 15 | With Hitchock in this mood it already looks a good signing and Porterfield said : ‘ We are not bringing the Russian to take Kevin 's place . |
| 16 | Morris 's contribution to this match is unlikely to find much space in Wisden , but he already looks the part . |
| 17 | Just looks a card and buys it . |
| 18 | It just looks the same . |
| 19 | But not content with just looking the part , Spotted Eagle has spent thirty years studying the history and culture of the native American Indian . |
| 20 | She has very clear pale skin and so is used to having quite strong make-up ( ‘ so that I do n't just look a bland mass ’ ) . |
| 21 | The 1989 Kiwis do not look a patch on their predecessors . |
| 22 | Thirdly , even if the stupendous funds demanded were available , should one not look a little more carefully at the begging queue ? |
| 23 | He had to be fifty , but he did not look a day over thirty-five , an illusion helped by his lopsided boyish grin that was so very full of charm . |
| 24 | He did not look a particularly easy ride that day and could well prove a handful for his inexperienced rider . |
| 25 | It has to be said that the countries in this bit of the world , which were previously part of the Soviet Union , do not look a promising market . |
| 26 | I can not believe he came without Airey Neave 's permission , but it did not look a very comfortable arrangement , and I declined . |
| 27 | Indeed , at first glance this does not look a very compelling book : it holds to a strong version of the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis ; it contains extended discussions of those perennial seminar heroes Lok and Benjy from Golding 's The Inheritors and Faulkner 's The Sound and the Fury respectively ; and there is a dutiful chapter on gender . |
| 28 | Clearly , they do not look the same length ; and clearly the child 's thought is focused on the tips ( ‘ centrated on ’ in the jargon ) . |
| 29 | As Prime Minister , however , he does not look the person to rally the forces of the Left after their drubbing in regional and local elections . |
| 30 | For one thing , he did not look the sort from whom one would borrow . |