Example sentences of "look [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was sort of let me think it was over and it only looked about that big . |
| 2 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 3 | Just in case you were really observant I 'm the 20yr old ( looks about 15/16 ) who had the jeans and dark blue denim shirt on ( V.sexy ! ) |
| 4 | I mixed it up when I wrote it down If you find something in the text books looks about right and similar to that , use the text book version , I might have written it down wrong . |
| 5 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 6 | Er it might be having someone making sure the out of the way , to make sure it looks as those there 's mil that there 's someone in , in or out the house . |
| 7 | The objective to funding from the old objective programme is we 've now learnt that we 've been successful in getting a grant made towards the Centre feasibility study , Shropshire welcomes Japan television advertisement on the Japanese , Japan area , towards the pipeworks promotion and the fly-drive marketing initiative because , er , to get people from North America into the marches and staying here , so it looks as those projects will be almost fifty percent funded from Europe to objective two . |
| 8 | Had I been asked to imagine myself as I would have looked during that time , you can be sure that I would have had the beautiful gown , the ruffled frill and the bejewelled fingers of a lady . |
| 9 | Peter Scott assesses Perry Anderson 's verdict on English intellectuals ; Tony Parker on Thatcherism 's casualties ; Stephen Howe looks for new life in the unions ; Conor Gearty cross-examines a defender of the Bar ; and Geoff Dyer wades through Ted Hughes ' Shakespearean fantasy |
| 10 | Fault-tolerant Unix specialist Sequoia Systems Inc is sinking deeper into the mire and has had to fire 60 people in all parts of the company to cut cost while it looks for new funds to finance its operations . |
| 11 | Barclays looks for new chief outside |
| 12 | Surmounted by a slender clock-tower , which summoned the Belgian bourgeoisie to rendezvous with the trains as surely as any muezzin summoning the faithful to prayer , it looks for all the world as if it has been transported by some mischievous jinn on a magic carpet . |
| 13 | A carved chair close by the altar , a small ancient-looking chest , and an ornately-carved table which looks for all the world like a chest on legs , may well be Jacobean . |
| 14 | The city of Balboa looks for all the world like a suburban Texas town — it has green lawns of tough-leaved grass , cyclone fences , large split-level houses , young housewives in sunglasses and hair-curlers driving Camaros on their way to the Safeway , American flags — and American troops . |
| 15 | From the outside the Aeronca , with its upturned snub nose and very short undercarriage , looks for all the world as if it has suffered a heavy landing , then run full- pelt into the side of a hangar . |
| 16 | And that 's where engineering you know , knowledge , comes er to bear because an engineer looks for that , he looks for the easy , simplest you know er method of production er which gives him an effective er machining operation throughout the whole job . |
| 17 | But that would be more than offset by other tax increases as Mr Lamont looks for extra funds to tackle the ballooning PSBR deficit , likely to be about £45 billion next year . |
| 18 | DAMON LOOKS FOR DRY RUN HOME IN CANADA |
| 19 | The teacher looks for certain tell-tale behaviour , as does the examiner . |
| 20 | This is accomplished through the ordering of edges on the Agenda , and through the direction-independent nature of the Fundamental Rule which looks for possible extensions to hypotheses . |
| 21 | Infected programmes activate the virus when started up and it looks for other programmes to infect . |
| 22 | It looks for formal arrangements such as size and frequency of union conventions or conferences , selection and voting methods for the union executives and the existence of intermediate union governing bodies , that is , the devices which can facilitate , when full advantage is taken of them , the development of power bases independent of union leaders . |
| 23 | Sherwood looks for more such business on the back of BS5750 approval , fast becoming an essential requirement for government tenders . |
| 24 | Yet it often happens that when a new kung fu student enters a kwoon , with pre-conceived ideas about fighting , and is shown basic techniques that look as though they were aimed at primary school level , he looks for more in those techniques than there actually is . |
| 25 | Neil , Neil now says , that when he meets a girl , he , he waits to see if she 's got any characteristics in common with the dreadful Vicky , the girl that he eventually fetch her much deserved slosh on the chops and was pulled into Ipswich Magistrates Court , you know , oh I should n't laugh , but erm , he says he looks for those characteristics , and the moment he sees that the girl is going to be this sort of neurotic , excitable , hysterical creature he walks away . |
| 26 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 27 | Growth is once again the watchword as the country looks for another period of expansion in higher education . |
| 28 | My father looks for another . |
| 29 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 30 | Firdaus is so stung by this that she looks for another job . |