Example sentences of "this [vb -s] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 2 | This looks like the best return available on income bonds but investors should move fast as these offers tend to be fully subscribed very quickly . |
| 3 | This looks like a meal fit for a king . |
| 4 | For the time being , this looks like the end of the Swedish spending spree . |
| 5 | I apologise if this description of Boy sounds to you like some fantasy and not a real person , a real young man ; and worse still , if this looks like a photograph from that kind of magazine which you would n't even buy , let alone be seen reading in public , on public transport for instance . |
| 6 | What would you say to the lawyer who would analyse what you did and what many other doctors , I 'm sure , do every day , and would say , ‘ This looks like homicide — killing by injection . ’ |
| 7 | Ah , this looks like him ! ’ |
| 8 | This looks like a case of a random example ; for the only problem it could create would be by failing to fall within a category of admissible wordings . |
| 9 | Anne read the guidebooks , while I 'd say , ‘ Hey , this looks like an interesting airfield ! ’ to which Anne would reply , £The fact that the place has an interesting approach does not mean that I want to spend my holidays there ! ’ |
| 10 | This looks like a Van Halen thing . |
| 11 | ‘ This looks like a nice spot ’ |
| 12 | Provided you do n't mix friendships with finance — especially on the 4th when the Sun makes a decisive aspect to your ruler Saturn — then this looks like being a month when you are fussed , feted and fawned over . |
| 13 | SATURN remains in the area of ambitions and career matters for most of the year , so this looks like being a time when hard work will pay off later rather than sooner . |
| 14 | Agassi has managed to sign up a licensing deal with Tecmagik and this looks like being the long-awaited definitive tennis game on Sega systems . |
| 15 | I 've been praying for him and this looks like the best possible outcome . |
| 16 | ‘ This looks like a mistake by the Russian Football Association — not the club . |
| 17 | This looks like a good item for your Christmas shopping list ! |
| 18 | ‘ This looks like a good job , ’ I though , unaware that I had arrived in the middle of Danny Baker 's leaving party . |
| 19 | This looks like a rather odd product — there is already multi-user native Pick for the personal computer , and there is single-user Pick for MD-DOS , so is there a market for a version of Pick that will support multiple users , while a person sits on the server and uses MS-DOS ? |
| 20 | If the world is to have a laboratory , this looks like it . |
| 21 | As Boys ' Own adventures go , this looks like being a grand one . |
| 22 | This looks like a tiny tadpole . |
| 23 | And this does n't look like the inside of a covered wagon : this looks like the inside of a metal box . |
| 24 | But anyway this looks like a grievance of standing . |
| 25 | From the point of view of the resources crisis , this looks like a reasonably rational response : because there are so many more ‘ run of the mill ’ than ‘ serious ’ offenders , a bifurcated policy should save many more resources than it costs . |
| 26 | Yes , this looks like one to be grabbed with both hands , I should say … if I were asked … |
| 27 | Now this looks like a good game to bet on , because a probability of one , is an absolute certainty . |
| 28 | ‘ This looks like the end of the world , ’ said Oliver who had ordered a beer . |
| 29 | This looks like a set for The Happiest Days of Your Life . ’ |
| 30 | This looks like a C term but does not depend on temperature [ 21 ] . |