Example sentences of "[pron] looks like a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This thing here , which looks like a wooden club , is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung , like a dance floor . |
| 2 | As a result of this , certain big Renoir prints are expensive — over £20,000 for the kind of lithograph which looks like a chalk drawing . |
| 3 | By the Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station there is something which looks like a very large public information notice , which in one sense it is , but which is in fact a memorial . |
| 4 | New from J B Corrie is the Garden Buggy which looks like a conventional wheelbarrow but has a strong woven polypropylene fabric pan over a rust resistant chassis and easy to manoeuvre polypropylene wheels and pvc tyres . |
| 5 | The extreme heteromorphs are perhaps to be found in the genus Nipponites , which looks like a tangle of whorls where any obvious semblance of symmetrical coiling seems to have been lost ( see left ) , and Baculites which is virtually straight after its earliest whorls . |
| 6 | Some years ago a humbucker was designed for Gibson that has a base plate which looks like a printed circuit board . |
| 7 | A duvet cover which looks like a contemporary painting , plain bright curtains and the whole effect softened with swooping net drapes . |
| 8 | Bolted to one side of a table is a strange stone implement which looks like a huge flinted knife-sharpener , and this radiates faint magic to a character with Magic Sense . |
| 9 | Operating in a bleeding French market , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has a rapidly vanishing mainframe base , personal computer problems that only seem to have been exacerbated by the acquisition of Zenith Data Systems , which looks like a source of profitless volume , and a Unix strategy that is only just getting off the ground . |
| 10 | Twisted pair cable uses a special plastic plug , called an RJ-45 , which looks like a US telephone plug . |
| 11 | He is wearing the mantle now , made from the skins of the hyrax , a flea-ridden animal which looks like a giant guinea pig . |
| 12 | Around the corner , the small office which looks like a hole in the wall of a shady bookie and turns out to be something of an art gallery , is again amiably in flow . |
| 13 | The cervix is sealed off with a mucus plug which looks like a pinkish clot and its appearance is a good sign that there is some activity around the cervix . |
| 14 | Over 300lbs of oscillating blubber held modestly together by a taffeta jock-strap which serves to keep one cheek from slapping the other — the whole lot topped by a hairstyle which looks like a Sainsbury 's Catherine Wheel . |
| 15 | Between ( e ) and ( g ) there is a range of behaviour not fully illustrated by a still picture such as ( f ) , which looks like a superposition of ( e ) and ( g ) : if one watches the oscilloscope one sees the picture alternating randomly between the chaotic pattern and the ordered one . |
| 16 | it 's meant to be a bonsai tree which looks like a tree but it 's only very small like that high . |
| 17 | We all know how to use pens — we were taught how to use a pen in primary school — but the computer ca n't read our writing yet , so we use something which looks like a pen , but it 's reading something which does n't look like letter of the alphabet and words , but which it can understand and understand very quickly and very accurately indeed . |
| 18 | We all know how to use pens , we were taught how to use pen in primary school , but the computer ca n't read our writing yet , so we use something which looks like a pen , but is reading something which does n't look like letters of the alphabet and words , but which it can understand and understand very quickly and very accurately indeed . |
| 19 | The 1992 line-up sounds fresher in its contributions to the invigorating album by Beryl Marriott , who looks like a homely , old-fashioned music teacher but rises admirably to Fairport 's description , the ‘ Jerry Lee Lewis of folk ’ . |
| 20 | As opposed to that special big-time type of failure who looks like a success until the last reel and then turns yellow and |
| 21 | Not a light in any of the lounges or offices , not a soul , certainly not a British Committee one , who looks like a welcoming committee . |
| 22 | The sprites are amazing , especially ol' Rufus himself , who looks like a cross between Berk from Trapdoor and Phil after a large meal . |
| 23 | Royal , who looks like a bit he 's been carved out of rock , warned of what will happen if we follow in the wake of what 's been going on in the States . |
| 24 | For every pimply , dejected murderer I can give you one who looks like a movie star , for everyone who wo n't talk , one who will gab your ear off . |
| 25 | He points at a young blond amateur heavyweight who looks like a fraternity kid . |
| 26 | Mr. Galbraith : I will certainly give way to the honerable and learned Gentleman , who looks like a bus conductor in that outfit . |
| 27 | ‘ I think you 're horrid to tell me lies too , and make out that when you 're married you 're going to get up to horrible … such disgusting … with that man who looks like a fish with cold yellowish eyes and greeny-yellow skin … . ’ |
| 28 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 29 | She looks like a nurse in her blue uniform and her scarf over her head . |
| 30 | Drinking blackcurrant juice from a plastic beaker , her hair in a bob that looks as though she did it herself with kitchen scissors , she looks like a child . |