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

No	Sentence
1	Again we had to view the signs of mourning at Todmorden Hall , the fourth time within four short years — and now alas ! all looked more melancholy than ever .
2	If I 'd hit you you could n't have looked more stricken .
3	It had looked more suitable for a West End hairdressing salon .
4	The rugged , weatherbeaten face , with its look of dependable fortitude , would have looked more appropriate above a seaman 's guernsey , preferably with RNLI woven across the chest .
5	It seemed utterly incongruous that there were cars parked outside on the wide circular drive — carriages would have looked more appropriate .
6	She had never looked more beautiful , standing there in her poor clothes , defying the world — and him .
7	As he went into the garden , Nick thought she had never looked more beautiful or more desirable .
8	The cumulative default rate — the proportion of bonds originally rated as junk that eventually defaulted — always looked more alarming , at around 30% .
9	The city had never looked more foreign , nor more unlovely .
10	Luke just looked more puzzled , reaching out to touch her as if to help him understand .
11	Travis could n't have looked more sceptical if she 'd told him the world was flat after all .
12	In the second half , Sunderland always looked more likely to score .
13	Not that that was much help ; it still looked more likely that John was with a group backed by Syria and Libya .
14	She had never looked more lovely , he thought , and told her so .
15	He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials .
16	So the argument goes , and it certainly looks more radical than the tired old tat of punk — yet it seems just as likely that there is an unconscious impulse to flaunt having in the faces of those who do not .
17	This involves reconstruing the situation so that it looks more straightforward and easy to handle , thus allowing sides to be taken or a stance adopted which reduces the confusion and allows at least some action to be taken — a villain to be defeated , a wrong to be righted , a battle to be fought .
18	This looks more uniform , and the old names are then described as ‘ trivial ’ .
19	A well-stocked medium sized lunch or breakfast plate looks more satisfying than a large dinner plate that is only half-filled .
20	A sister with a part-time job looks more available to care for a parent than a brother who works full-time .
21	He looks more effective , however , in a central role , and this is where he is expected to be used against Lithuania .
22	Get one of them out here in plain clothes and on a civilian motor-bike — better still a moped , it looks more innocent .
23	The whole object looks more Byzantine than I would have guessed , an effect heightened by the pendants which hang from each side .
24	from a distance it looks more black than brown and it has a most interesting tail which , when closed , looks like one of the flippers scuba divers wear .
25	Others believe it looks more professional .
26	Looks more professional right ?
27	The new non-socialist party looks more agreeable than it has done for 20 years .
28	He looks more confident now than I 've ever seen him .
29	The cormorant has a heavier build , less upright stance and — as this is an immature — a pale chest , while the shag ( minus its crest now in midsummer ) looks more scrawny and is relatively longer-necked .
30	For such cream cheeses moulds are not strictly necessary , although the cheese looks more presentable if it has been pressed in a muslin-lined basket , a heart-shaped mould , a cake tin pierced with holes , even an expendable carton or a flower pot — always provided that the essential lining is not forgotten .