Example sentences of "[noun pl] look the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the Soviet nationalities , the Baltic nations looked the most likely to establish ( or as they saw it , resume ) their independent statehood in the 1990s ; their opportunity to do so came soon after the attempted coup when ( in September 1991 ) the USSR Council of State formally approved their independent status and they were admitted into the United Nations and other international organisations . |
| 2 | Her eyes looked the same as yours and mine , only bigger . |
| 3 | Weld has left three in at the four day stage with Steel Chimes looking the most probable runner . |
| 4 | Reading an article in a trade journal reminded me of how far behind we are in the use of fluids in this country , by embalmers whose end product never varies and , therefore , their cases look the same and last the same , and funnily enough the noses and around the mouths grey off — the eternal question again ! |
| 5 | To the urban dweller , all woods look the same , but in landscape terms we must be careful to distinguish between the wildwood ( the remnant or successor of the natural or semi-natural woodland of Britain — which certainly does not exist anywhere today and probably has not since the Roman period ) and woods which have been to a greater or lesser degree managed for the production of timber and wood ( Fig. 63 ) . |
| 6 | But did n't all railway stations look the same , turned by the war into dismal places ? |
| 7 | All the corridors looked the same and he felt thoroughly confused by his new surroundings . |
| 8 | The grass-grown graves looked the most comfortable . |
| 9 | The guests looked the other way and talked more loudly . |
| 10 | All such covering trees look the same . |
| 11 | Holders look the part |
| 12 | City cops looked the other way , and the Cal State Angels loaned us hardware . |
| 13 | Gloucester were very fortunate in getting a late penalty kick and in fact the very last kick of the game saw Tim Smith come up to get one point which for the last 35 minutes looked the most improbable result of all . |
| 14 | She was now looking round at both their houses distastefully , though the houses looked the same as usual , snow on the roofs , snow a foot deep over the yards , snow poised on every twig and leaf , a cloud from the central-heating chimney hovering calmly over each residence . |
| 15 | Bajan Blues looks the part in the Sportsman Hunter Chase , Fly By North may solve the Maze Handicap Hurdle and Carton may take the Moira Novice Chase . |
| 16 | Similarly , higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution . |
| 17 | As far as wrinkles and saggy bits go , the majority of my friends look the same , and I do n't waste five hours on daily maintenance like Cher . |
| 18 | The teachers looked the same as the pupils and everyone was equal , ha , ha , though I made a fool of myself by calling the male teachers sir and females miss . |
| 19 | All babies look the same to me , but Will was very pleased with her . |
| 20 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 21 | He proceeded to ring that director on a regular basis from the continental sharedealer where he worked , saying : " If you want your wife and children to keep their faces looking the same , you 'd better pay your little debt . " |
| 22 | ‘ All towns look the same nowadays until you look up at the buildings above and the scenery beyond , ’ he grunted . |
| 23 | If I understand him aright , it ought to be possible to show that Descartes ' stripping away of the ‘ accidental ’ qualities of objects is illegitimate , because based on a series of elisions of meaning between one use of an expression and another where the two expressions look the same but have different meanings . |
| 24 | When the ball was let out Northern 's backs looked the sharper and after a scoreless first half , centre Paul Collins burst on to a short pass from Johnson and sent the speedy Casado racing over . |