Example sentences of "it looks [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks blacker than black by artificial light and much pleasanter by daylight . |
| 2 | The pride of Scotland hold a 2–1 European Cup first leg lead but it looks fragile when you consider the awesome power of Leeds on their own territory and the effect of that Yorkshire choir at full blast . |
| 3 | We had a good view of Sao Paulo as we flew over it — so massive , it looks bigger than New York , and you can almost see it grow as you watch it , because all round the outskirts of the city are straggling half-finished ‘ shanty town housing estates ’ , with dirt roads and little hut-like dwellings , as it seemed from the air . |
| 4 | It looks bigger than umm |
| 5 | Manager Barry Forshaw said that the ground floor of the shop was ‘ wrecked ’ , but added that it looked as if no structural damage had been done : ‘ it looks worse than it really is ’ . |
| 6 | I said it looks nice as it is and I do n't know if he will or not , I forgot to ask him on the phone . |
| 7 | he says it looks nice as well |
| 8 | It looks nice when , you know , when it 's lit up . |
| 9 | It looks easy until you try it . |
| 10 | They 're quite good it looks better than them for office do n't it ? they 're dual power battery and solar |
| 11 | It looks better than it did . |
| 12 | it looks ridiculous cos you 've got all navy and then suddenly these like bright white feet . |
| 13 | Inside , it looks much as we left it . |
| 14 | It looks great when it 's down or in a simple self-knotted style . |
| 15 | And somehow it looks right when you do n't do it . |
| 16 | It gets so dirty and it looks dirty if it 's not polished every day . |
| 17 | no they just like , think that it looks good because they are being seen to go to church |
| 18 | I do it looks blue if you turn it somewhat . |
| 19 | They 've made him lie with his hands behind his head , which is a trick they probably picked from a Miami Vice afternoon repeat , except it looks stupid when the guy 's hairy legs are sticking out from the tail of his shirt . |
| 20 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 21 | But it looks alright because it 's a big lawn . |
| 22 | I mean it looks alright if you 've got all the gear on you know cycling shorts and top and everything |
| 23 | I think it looks alright when it 's cut back . |
| 24 | Well it wa it went up and it was like that dash used to be I should think it looks alright when I 've finished it . |
| 25 | but it looks horrible when it 's right up . |
| 26 | I get her head and you know Beetlejuice when he goes I got ta show you it cos sometimes she 's , she 's not alert and when she 's like that it looks wicked cos he goes and her ears are like that she goes and I get her to play the banjo and she goes it 's wicked ! |
| 27 | It looks wonderful if you heat a metal skewer to red-hot and make a quadrillage — hatched grill marks — on both sides of the meat . |
| 28 | The formula can be extended to a pop group , as in Lester 's Beatles films , or Boorman 's Catch Us If You Can ( 1965 ) centred on the Dave Clark Five , but it looks more than a little shaky when applied to a more complex , not to say maudlin , character like that written by Shelagh Delaney for Albert Finney in Charlie Bubbles ( 1967 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 30 | It looks more than possible that it will be on its wheels next year . |