Example sentences of "[noun sg] look [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To non-riders dressage must appear to be the art of making the noble horse look like a wally with an even bigger wally on top in fancy dress . |
| 2 | Here , at a round table , Christian Lacroix was seated with his wife , Sylvie Guillem ( now changed into a ballgown of great splendour and so contrived , with such shortness at front and fullness at back , as to make the wearer look like an emu ) , and a number of stock Parisian luminaries , like Guy and Marie-Hélène de Rothschild . |
| 3 | Ditherers and mums-the-worders who 'd make even the fossilised Football Association Council look like a Brains Trust . |
| 4 | In a volte-face that makes Germaine Greer 's change of heart look like a tiny emotional trifle , the former feminists ' champion has switched from the red corner to the blue corner without a blush in the process . |
| 5 | There 's enough explosive power in a really big display to make the twenty kegs of powder Guy Fawkes planted below the Houses of Parliament look like a damp roman candle . |
| 6 | Sound feminist argument usually means making the nearest male look like an idiot , which in Ellen 's case was not a very demanding task . |
| 7 | Rincewind relaxed slightly , which was to say that he still made a violin string look like a bowl of jelly . |
| 8 | In this world of clean fast-running water , of inimitable oaks and meadows which made the Bayeux tapestry look like a traycloth , there was no place for somersaulted cars and carnage and broken bodies lying on the wet and bloody tarmac . |
| 9 | What on earth can have induced Labour and Conservative politicians alike even to consider hitching their wagons to something which , at first sight , makes the poll tax look like a pre-election bonus ? |
| 10 | The years taken to prepare the poll tax look like a model of wise and thoughtful government by comparison with the pretence at consultation and the shockingly truncated parliamentary timetable with which we are now confronted . |
| 11 | Mario Andretti , who won the 1978 world championship with the 79 , boasted that the new car , the 80 , would make his former charge look like a double-decker bus . |
| 12 | Well yes it may be important and if if you ca n't to say but did you yourself in any event look at the voters register , the electoral role ? |
| 13 | The civilization flourished for more than a millennium until , about 1400 BC , the comparatively nearby volcanic island of Thera erupted in a fashion that makes the 1883 Krakatoa event look like a mere squib . |
| 14 | FACTORY CIRCUS look like the result of a particularly sadistic fashion designer 's bad acid trip . |
| 15 | Another rabbit look on the telly ! |
| 16 | Today it had doubled , crossed from one side of his forehead to the other , and reinforced a series of furrows rather than wrinkles , that made his broad white forehead look like a new-ploughed field covered in snow . |
| 17 | When used it can quadruple data throughput , making a 2,400bps modem look like a 9,600bps one , making it faster and cheaper in terms of phone time . |
| 18 | The EFTA deal , which includes extra tonnage of north-east arctic cod , seems to do so , but there is a fear that , when the common fisheries policy comes up for review and renewal , the wheeling and dealing over fish then will make Maastricht this week look like a teddy bears ' picnic . |
| 19 | ‘ I shall have to make my encounter with the captain look like an accident . |
| 20 | Er no , file manager look at the fi look at the drivers that are in DOS or in Windows . |
| 21 | Can we suggest that the Recreation Ground look at the opening of the toilets , and ask them to , to consider this , at their next meeting ? |
| 22 | well the whole page look at the differences , look at the variations there |
| 23 | I know I 've never seen a grown up ragger actually , they always go no man look at the chief on that |
| 24 | SUSIE and Ian Cornell have found what might at first sight look like a most obvious corner of the fitness market — a gym for the unfit . |
| 25 | We made a very definite decision some years ago to make the Gardener Centre look towards the community as a whole , rather than just make it a university toy , or part of the formal academic programme . |
| 26 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
| 27 | ‘ My dear girl , you could never in your life look like an old hag , and you seem to forget that so far I 've never seen you at your best . |
| 28 | Interior panels can either be of fairly basic wood that will be papered over , or fancy panelling , such as oak , that will be left bare and make a modest property look like a stately home . |
| 29 | This centre for the war wounded , holding up to 600 patients at a time , makes an NHS ward look like a palatial five-star hotel . |
| 30 | From the entrance to the church the fresco makes the flat wall behind the altar look like an apse , and only when the wall is approached is the illusion of curvature broken . |