Example sentences of "[not/n't] look [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , we 're not looking at a new wonder drug , you know , the type that you swallow with a glass of water . |
| 2 | That 's why I sympathise with Audrey and I feel sure she 's not looking for a new man . |
| 3 | Second , most people who are in work are keeping their heads down and not looking for a new job , so there is less competition from those in work . |
| 4 | No I 'm not , I 'm not looking for a new penknife at all boy |
| 5 | Like gangs , bullies are not looking for a stand-up fight , but for a victim ; the best way to beat them is to give more trouble than they can handle . |
| 6 | You are not looking for a fast drop in weight . |
| 7 | They are not looking for a tough fight but for a victim — someone who will cower or quake with fear like a doomed rabbit . |
| 8 | Digital Equipment Corp says that its Alpha second source agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corp is not an exclusive pact and that it is talking with other firms that may become second sources of the chip ; ‘ We are not looking for a large number of semiconductor partners , however we are having discussions with other semiconductor companies ; those relationships could happen at various levels , ’ — DEC may still seek other firms to design versions without the marketing that Mitsubishi is providing . |
| 9 | But the athletes are making an unprecedented demand for a slice of the lucrative financial action and Tom Jennings , the agent spearheading their case , countered : ‘ We are not looking for a militant takeover , just a share of the wealth . |
| 10 | We should not look for a simple reflection : ‘ a single , fixed mode of exchange ; in reality there are many modes , their character is determined historically , and they are continually renegotiated ’ . |
| 11 | It made it clear that , whatever their achievements in the past , the direct-grant schools could not look towards a stable future within the national system of education . |
| 12 | Now she did not look like a young girl , she looked like the sister of a count , and Maggie stepped into the breach swiftly . |
| 13 | Mr Major does not look like a prime minister with a secret agenda up his sleeve . |
| 14 | But America does not look like a disorganised company most of whose workers do not have a boss ; or at least it did not the last time it deserved worldwide respect . |
| 15 | She did not look like a predatory widow and she was no superannuated dolly-bird either ; she must have been fifty , she was on the plump side , clear skinned , with a frank , open face . |
| 16 | Dr Tyrell stressed that the results do not mean that a similar vaccine can be made for HIV ‘ but at least the road now does not look like a dead end ’ . |
| 17 | She did not look like a happy woman . |
| 18 | When Samuel arrived in England in 1939 , after a hazardous journey of two months , the country did not look like a safe place in which to live . |
| 19 | And despite being stuffed full of capability and battery , they 're light enough ( 8kg ) to sit on the desktop and compact enough ( 15 by 10 by 27mm ) not to look like a Bulgarian chip fryer . |
| 20 | Masklin tried hard not to look like a minor organism . |
| 21 | Sir Richard Body Tory MP for Holland-with-Boston in Lincolnshire does n't look like a radical Maverick ; indeed you could be forgiven for thinking he is the original grey man of politics . |
| 22 | that so it does n't look like a new fence we planted quick . |
| 23 | Does n't look like a perfect pitch ? |
| 24 | Not worthy of a photograph I should n't think There 's the Queen Mother again , does n't say how old she is There is the picture of the doctor , mind you he does n't look like a junior doctor , he 's Pakistani and he looks about fifty ! |
| 25 | She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately . |
| 26 | Yet it did n't look like a photocopying machine . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't look like a common whore to me . ’ |
| 28 | erm you can hybridize these two , you can second generations , backcrosses and so on , the analysis has been made , and we know that there is n't a single large gene producing that effect — we know that there are quite a number of genes of reasonably small effect , we do n't know exactly how many but certainly it does n't look like a hopeful monster . |
| 29 | Not always noticed because if it 's called Cements it does n't look like a foreign company , but if it 's called Mitsubishi or something well , it will stand out . |
| 30 | It does n't look like a rubber tree |