Example sentences of "[conj] look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Here we have something that looks very much like a totalitarian welfare state in microcosm , and which must have powerfully contributed to Schreber 's psychosis , which featured delusions of passive submission to impregnation by an omnipotent solar god . |
| 32 | Crossan now appears in a backline that looks very exciting , particularly with the arrival of Graeme McCluskey . |
| 33 | The point is that looks very nice . |
| 34 | Well that looks very smart as it is . |
| 35 | Also , that one could be that looks very shiny too ! |
| 36 | It 's a play that looks unflinchingly not just into the mouth of lambs but into the abyss . |
| 37 | Sometimes when I 'm ready to go out , he 'll say that looks really good , other times nothing . |
| 38 | In short , New York is stuck with a tax base that looks too narrow to support the city 's budget in anything like its present form . |
| 39 | No , cos you did n't have it ooh that looks nice that looks absolutely nasty that does ! |
| 40 | And they have been pushing hard to shake money out of any European Community project that looks remotely applicable . |
| 41 | It too regards greenfly as a good meal , so do n't go bashing at everything that looks remotely like a wasp . |
| 42 | A TRIUMPHANT trompe-l'oeil ; fanatically detailed ( right down to the grainy film stock ) reconstruction of events in the Algerian war of independence from the French during 1954 –'57); that looks uncannily like documentary reality . |
| 43 | I could turn convict , he thought , and live in prison and it would n't matter then about a job or all the things ahead that looks so unpromising . |
| 44 | How can a cooker that looks so good cost so little ? |
| 45 | I often find myself wondering how something that looks so simple and straightforward manages to cause its owner so many headaches . |
| 46 | He was in turn replaced by Sydney Box who , while reinstating Black 's policy of maintaining a broad range of films and enlarging the script department , run by his wife Muriel , to develop original stories and train new writers , gave a twist to the company 's film production that looks more like deference to Rank 's demand for moral uplift than a full-hearted pursuit of the popular audience . |
| 47 | And remember that the benefits wo n't usually change with inflation — so a figure that looks more like a telephone number now than a pension may be much smaller , in real terms , when you retire . |
| 48 | Some butterflies have a rear end that looks more like a head than their real heads . |
| 49 | However , if , after casting on , you rearrange the needles on the ribber bed to a 1×1 , then you can use four-ply with the benefit of ‘ no floats ’ and a fabric that looks more like single bed Fair Isle . |
| 50 | The NHS did need a kick up the backside , and a lot of us were ( and still are ) far more prepared than you realise to promote any scheme that looks halfway decent . |
| 51 | Another five minutes ' walk and I find a slow piece of water that looks extremely chubby . |
| 52 | The first comprehensive study in Britain that looks specifically at Black women 's experience of domestic violence is currently nearing completion . |
| 53 | But as Navratilova , although looking somewhat shaky , recovered to win the next two sets 6-3 , 6-4 , to complete the victory over Spain , there was no stealing Evert 's thunder . |
| 54 | My apple trees are nor looking very healthy , and every year there are scabby , open wounds in the fruits which look very unsightly . |
| 55 | So we 're more than looking forward to reviewing this one , although before we examine it in detail perhaps we should take a quick look at Lowden 's model-numbering system , since with so many different options available , like cutaways , special inlays , different bindings and decoration , it 's sometimes hard to spot which model is which . |
| 56 | For many fans ( and some teams ) , looking back is easier than looking forward , ( see boredom and kissing ) . |
| 57 | The nature of time in the British Civil Service as changed , cut up into small blocks covered by forward-looking three year corporate plans , rather than looking backwards to a living corporate tradition . |
| 58 | Rather than looking abroad , smart European bankers will already have realised that with banks like Chase Manhattan and Security Pacific pulling back from Europe , some of the best corporate business will now be up for grabs in their own backyards . |
| 59 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 60 | She was that looking forward to living in the Daye House , once they 'd got planning permission . ’ |