Example sentences of "[conj] it look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police said at the time that it looked like the work of the IRA . |
| 2 | It 's too thin , it 's too sharp , it 's better than it looks on the telly , it reminds them of the wife , it gets right up their nose , etc. etc . |
| 3 | The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top . |
| 4 | But I will say this , it 's a great deal better than it looks from the outside . ’ |
| 5 | Rare Bear had melted the piston in the No 2 cylinder and it looked like the rod in the No 1 cylinder had bent , tilting the entire jug about four or five degrees . |
| 6 | It 's about collison of cultures in Britain since the end of the war , and it looks at the way that some artists of non-British origin have come to terms with modern art — or , rather , have made a personal art by calling on ways of expression that might have been absolutely native to them in other countries than this . |
| 7 | Coal tar linings were banned from the 1970s onwards after advice from WRC but , said a TWA spokesman , someone would now have to foot the bill for replacing the old linings ‘ and it looks like the ratepayer ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ Driver acceptance too has been very good and it looks like the misconception that diesels are dirty , slow and smelly is a thing of the past . ’ |
| 9 | The injured limb swells up until it looks like the leg of an elephant . |
| 10 | But when it looked at the boys , Edwardian England was invariably moved . |
| 11 | HP figures Sun tried its damnedest to come up with a full-featured workstation under $5,000 but when it looked at the margins , dumbed down the box to create the Classic . |
| 12 | Make a few test recordings before you start the session in earnest in order to get used to the set-up and to check that the wording sounds as good when spoken as it looks on the page . |