Example sentences of "[noun pl] do [not/n't] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1989 Kiwis do not look a patch on their predecessors . |
| 2 | ‘ The Scots do n't look very … amusable , ’ drawled Georgie , picking a bit of 1,000-year-old stone off the wall behind him and aiming it at a tent-peg . |
| 3 | Well , of course , real homes do n't look like that at all and the way that their things are accumulated is not like that . |
| 4 | Yes , plastic shoes do n't look as good as leather ones . |
| 5 | I regret that I have to conclude that the omens for retaining national control of vital areas do not look good . |
| 6 | I am afraid the above formulae are wrong because our new solenoids do n't look the same as the old one . |
| 7 | Her pelvic bones do n't look like the pelvic bones in Cosmo . |
| 8 | ‘ The trouble with modern textiles is that they use synthetic dyes and the colours do n't look right in an old setting , ’ Patsy says . |
| 9 | These two colours do n't look right together . ’ |
| 10 | However , although home-grown plants do not look like their parents they retain the chemical characteristics . |
| 11 | But witches do n't have pointed hats , and ghosts do n't look like sheets . |
| 12 | It has been observed that two out of three fiction readers in libraries do not look at the text of a book before choosing it . |
| 13 | Among the ‘ lower caste ’ people , the woman 's role had always been rather different from her role in the farming castes ; now ‘ lower caste ’ women worked increasingly in the fields alongside the men and this led , according to Mamdani , to ‘ a radical change … in the attitude towards girl children … low caste families do not look upon the birth of a girl with the disfavour they used to ’ — though ‘ to a certain extent the disfavour persists because the girl will marry and emigrate precisely when she has reached the age of greatest productivity ’ . |
| 14 | The thin , pink stalks do n't look all that exciting , but you should make the most of its fresh flavour . |
| 15 | Things do not look white in virtue of something analytically involved in their looking white , something which they have in common — as metals have in common that their oxides dissolved in water yield an alkaline solution — with other things that look white . |
| 16 | ‘ You see , Miss Kyte , things do not look very good for you . ’ |
| 17 | Things do n't look so rosy for DEC 's Alpha . |
| 18 | Things do n't look likely to improve , since recruits are hardly piling up at the door . |
| 19 | Her agent , Cleveland County Coun Alan Sykes , told The Northern : ‘ Things do n't look as well as they might be . ’ |
| 20 | Great care must be taken to ensure that the line of palms do not look like some modern Forestry Commission plantation . |
| 21 | If I were to be critical it would be to say that the scratchplates could be finished off more tidily , and occasionally the necks and bodies do n't look entirely new — although that 's hardly surprising , really . |
| 22 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 23 | Yeah cos the black 's likely to go grey , whereas the blues do n't look so bad |
| 24 | If our county councillors do n't look after us then the future is bleak . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's accepted that doctors do n't look after their own families . |
| 26 | Is it that some of your shots do not look as pictorially attractive as they might ? |
| 27 | Many children do n't look forward to a visit to the doctor 's — not surprising , as they may associate it with illness or injections . |
| 28 | Actors do n't look like I do . ’ |
| 29 | Actors do n't look like I do . ’ |
| 30 | At the bad moments do n't look back and think , Well at least I 'm a major in the British Army . |