Example sentences of "[vb mod] look more " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand the basis of this division , we should look more closely at the construction of organisms . |
| 2 | This tends to suggest that one should look more closely at the characteristics of those sustained or not sustained at home , and at the decision to admit to an institution . |
| 3 | If he is to stay in his job , he should look more seriously at the many other complaints about the way in which his Ministry is regulating food firms , especially in the meat trade . |
| 4 | I do not accept that , but we should look more carefully at the way in which we spend money on tobacco . |
| 5 | We should look more carefully at what we are doing and we should legislate less . |
| 6 | To understand what the issue is really about , we must look more carefully at the premises they bring to bear on the discussion of reduction ; for this debate functions as a strait-jacket , stifling the very assumptions and aspirations which lie at the heart of the dispute . |
| 7 | To understand the reasons behind that agreement we must look more loosely at the context in which it was made . |
| 8 | To appreciate fully the origin of these offences we must look more closely at the kind of theories held by the pupils . |
| 9 | It 'll look more natural , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Rapids might look more exciting , but still waters run deep , ’ Jeff used to say to them . |
| 11 | ‘ If there were no mirrors , ’ someone once said , ‘ we might look more closely at ourselves . ’ |
| 12 | Life with your lover might look more appealing now but unless you discover what 's gone wrong between you and your husband , it 's likely that you 'll end up feeling just as discontented with another man . |
| 13 | It could look like snobbery in conversation , but if you take it together with his family background and his interest in penance , it might look more like coming to terms with an inherited stain . ’ |
| 14 | So let's look more closely at these three ‘ S ’ factors , as they are often called . |
| 15 | But let's look more deeply into this matter of miracles and improbability . |
| 16 | The future of the two alliances is in the balance , and the Soviet side is already eager to restructure the Warsaw Pact into something which may look more like the Commonwealth than the Moscow-dominated monolith of the still recent past . |
| 17 | It may look more difficult but it 's not . |
| 18 | The pattern may look more obvious after the event , but it is worth pointing out that the French war in Vietnam in 1946 is sandwiched between their bombardment of Damascus and the eruption at Setif in Algeria in 1945 and their violent repression of the nationalist revolt in Madagascar in 1947 after similar claims had been made for independence within the French Union . |
| 19 | Theorists tell us it ought to look more like a symphony orchestra or a hospital or perhaps the British Raj . |
| 20 | No city could look more normal than Zagreb . |
| 21 | He really had fallen on his feet , and if only Jane would look more kindly on him , they 'd both be set for life . |
| 22 | The trap takes the form of an apparently harmless conservatory which would look more at home on a patio than adjacent to the stuffed gorillas . |
| 23 | The apparatus is controlled by a console would look more at home in a nuclear power station or in the cockpit of a jumbo jet . |
| 24 | Many of these are not to our taste , but there 's no doubt that even those items that would look more at home in a flower arrangement have been designed and coloured with fishkeeping in mind . |
| 25 | The Covent Garden scene is all gorblimey corn , and Shaw 's reinstated passages , bridging between scenes , seem like an excuse for the kind of business — Eliza running along stairs or surrounded by dancing couples — that would look more at home in a sixties musical . |
| 26 | A 6ft , 20-stone biker , Tiny would look more at home on the set of a Mad Max film but instead gives his time to help the Dreamflight team every year . |
| 27 | Suitably robed — the designer had already shown him drawings of an onion-shaped headpiece and a collar of gold — she would look more sphinx-like than most , certainly more exotic than Babs Osborne whose voice was pitched a little too high and whose features were a little too Frinton-on-Sea to suggest the perfect Cleopatra . |
| 28 | I suggested putting an old lady sitting on a bench with a lace shawl erm er sculpture of so that it represents er Nottingham lace and etcetera and I said it would look more attractive and catch people 's eye than what 's there at the present . |
| 29 | Certainly , a bank , for example , would look more favourably on an application for an overdraft after having some insight into the future cash position of a firm . |
| 30 | Hence , if the introduction of the Agnus Dei penny was decided at Enham , or intended to reflect events there , it would look more like a continental peace meeting than ever ; and in this context , it is very unlikely to be coincidence that the name Enham apparently means " the place where lambs are bred " . |