Example sentences of "looks [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom .
2 In this process in which the psychiatrist ( or psychoanalyst ) looks outwards from the individual psyche into his patient 's social network , he inevitably moves into territory which the social anthropologist ( and in Europe the sociologist ) regards as his — hence , of course , the boundary disputes alluded to above .
3 If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived .
4 12 LOOKS JUST LIKE THE REAL THING
5 The model , of course , looks just like the young Audrey Hepburn .
6 It looks exactly like the existing version but has a wider magnetic tape .
7 If the baby looks more at the new patterns , it indicates that he/she can discriminate them from the original .
8 On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry .
9 for example : the swift change from the grand développé à la seconde which Odile makes facing the audience and her sudden turn to arabesque when she looks straight into the kneeling Siegfried 's eyes in the Act II pas de deux of Swan Lake ; it is Odile 's triumph for she knows she has won Siegfried 's heart .
10 With its grey plumage , barred underside and hawk-like shape and silhouette , the European cuckoo looks deceptively like the predatory sparrowhawk — the two are often confused .
11 We are delighted to welcome Mark and his team to Rentokil , and he looks forward to the many leads which will no doubt be forthcoming .
12 He particularly looks forward to the new community centre being built and , with a personal interest in sport , is keen that while still remaining a play area , the football field is developed and used for more formal games .
13 The broader , freer modelling in others , such as the Theseus and Amazon ( fig. 64 ) , looks forward to the classical style .
14 It also looks forward to the later poetry , where the ‘ spirit of the river ’ Mississippi becomes ‘ a strong brown god ’ , while the ‘ spirit of the sea ’ is that of the Atlantic of the New England coast of Eliot 's childhood .
15 The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events .
16 His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure .
17 Graham Hamilton looks ahead to the new hockey season
18 It is the slender , wheat-coloured , lyre-horned Froment du Léon , which looks very like the old dun Shetland cows of the early twentieth century and almost identical to the modern Guernsey in conformation but not in horn .
19 It is all the more striking a testimony to the power of natural selection , therefore , that numerous examples can be found in real nature , in which independent lines of evolution appear to have converged , from very different starting points , on what looks very like the same endpoint .
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