Example sentences of "look [adv] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question is whether young children learn best by studying at their own pace through relatively informal ‘ activity ’ methods in small groups ( which , to some parents , looks suspiciously like playing ) , or whether they should learn the three Rs sitting at their desks in a more competitive and disciplined environment . |
| 2 | To turn three pages of essay into 77 pages of story looks suspiciously like the kind of redundant ornamentation that Steiner suggests is at the heart of what is wrong with Western values . |
| 3 | It looks suspiciously like knee-jerk retributivism , spuriously ennobled by reference to the ‘ community ’ . |
| 4 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 5 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 6 | It looks remarkably like a trumpet . |
| 7 | The answer is that they will become superfluous , to be replaced by a new prototype that looks remarkably like a rugby league player . |
| 8 | What they drew up looks remarkably like any other adjustment programme . |
| 9 | The force wasted an enormous amount of energy producing a plan which looks remarkably like the one sketched out in Mr Clinton 's campaign manifesto . |
| 10 | Now 51 , Cleese is reputedly as hair conscious as Elton John , does fierce work-outs three times a week and has a new love — American psychotherapist Alyce-Faye Eichelberger ( who looks remarkably like his two ex-wives ) . |
| 11 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 12 | It should be noted , however , that already with Schumpeter we have moved away from models based on the distinctiveness of the elite characteristic as an explanatory factor , to a lower-level operation which explicitly refers to realistic definitions rather than to explanations , and in which the model , such as it is , looks remarkably like a composite description of liberal democracy . |
| 13 | The Life itself looks remarkably like a version of the Passion of the Byzantine " megalomartyr " Menignos , relocated in Dijon , and the whole Benignus dossier is probably best interpreted as the response of a bishop to a non-Christian cult which he had not been able to stamp out . |
| 14 | Once I 'd mastered a none-too-straightforward control panel , which looks rather like those muticoloured ever-flickering computers you find on the dashboard of executive cars , my test run got under way . |
| 15 | The trap looks rather like an open-ended small plastic cloche , and hangs in the tree . |
| 16 | This rare and peculiar fossil looks rather like a sea-lily without arms , and has more than a passing resemblance to a tennis racket ! |
| 17 | This species looks rather like the heart urchin but the petal-like areas are much more deeply sunken , the forward pair very short . |
| 18 | This species looks rather like a bun , but not highly convex , and with a five-sided outline . |
| 19 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 20 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
| 21 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
| 22 | FIG. 2 From outside , the Milky Way probably looks rather like this typical barred spiral galaxy , NGC4535 . |
| 23 | Stir until all ingredients are amalgamated and the whole mixture looks rather like thick honey , with about the same consistency . |
| 24 | it looks rather like a is what we use ? |
| 25 | None the less , part of Chapter 4 will be concerned with something which looks rather like the ‘ geography of production ’ , although that term is inadequate in defining the nature of my concern . |
| 26 | As a simple example , at the level of concept formation , one might envisage a child encountering an object which looks rather like a table , though slightly different from any tables previously noted . |
| 27 | Yet , long before we clashed , the Bugis had possessed a highly complex written language , in which every letter looks rather like the cross-section of a different but closely related spiral seashell . |
| 28 | Caroline , Freddie 's wife , looks rather like him , except that whereas Freddie 's smile disappears up round the right-hand side of his face , hers goes up to the left . |
| 29 | The built-in wooden dresser was already there , as was the exposed brick chimney breast — which , with the cooker slotted into the fireplace , looks rather like an old-fashioned kitchen range . |
| 30 | Does your Lordship have the it should be er a small red file bundle that looks rather like that my Lord . |