Example sentences of "look more [adj] " in BNC.

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31 It looks more natural — particularly with a tan .
32 ‘ Because it looks more proper when I am looking after a patient . ’
33 What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now .
34 What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now .
35 It looks more formidable than it is , and of course we 'll only use a fraction of it .
36 Poor child , looks more dead than alive . ’
37 yes , oh , Richard looks more cheerful , he 's jumping up and down , not on the road , come back in this gate .
38 The future of the Yarrow shipyard in the North-East looks more secure with the announcement of an order worth four hundred million pounds .
39 And here 's to my wife who looks more stunning tonight than ever before . ’
40 He looks more promising .
41 However , the year ahead now looks more promising .
42 Option number three — reducing benefits — looks more promising .
43 Wear Valley Council may only have promised Stanley United FC two footballs ( Gadfly March 4 ) but the hidden agenda looks more promising .
44 Standing there with her back to me , she looks more beautiful than I ever seen her .
45 David : It 's not really as bad for me because they ca n't really tell that I 'm half-caste ( this pupil in appearance looks more white than Afro-Caribbean ) like the rest of them .
46 At least ( or is it at most ? ) it looks more lively than Standard Life 's recently unveiled corporate logo .
47 But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now .
48 The Trinidadian looks more scared than he does .
49 The harmony between Europe 's big six — VW , Fiat , PSA , Renault , GM and Ford — looks more likely than ever to persuade the commission to go for a transitional period longer than three to five years .
50 But it looks more likely that the one-time England midfielder will start only his second game since his £2 million move from Arsenal in the summer .
51 The Italian market , however , looks more difficult in 1993 .
52 Relatively speaking , the West looks more attractive than ever .
53 He looks more relaxed now on stage than he did in his cheek-busting days in Head to Head , but can still make a sax cry when he wants .
54 He looks more English .
55 Distortion near the equator and the central meridian is small , but increases considerably towards the poles and the outer meridians. ( b ) Hammer projection , developed in the late 19th century by a German professor of sur is also an equal-area projection and looks more realistic than the Sinusoidal .
56 Hands are always on display and nothing looks more unsightly than broken fingernails , highly coloured chipped nail varnish or chewed nails .
57 The team looks more mature than at the start of the season .
58 Thrace looks more plausible : there , the new kingdom of Teres and his son Sitalkes was in being by mid-century .
59 The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture .
60 Drake the whitest waterfowl of the region , relieved at rest by only a few black markings , but in flight looks more pied .
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