Example sentences of "looks [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Norris looks for a possible rapprochement between deconstruction and the Anglo-American philosophical tradition exemplified by Searle , though he finds that Derrida has more possible affinities with Searle 's master , Austin . |
| 2 | TIM SWALES : Looks for a good season |
| 3 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
| 4 | It actually looks for a lowest point , not a summit . |
| 5 | In such a culture , knowledge is superseded by wisdom , which looks for a total view of life , seeking to come to terms with its essential suffering and aspiring [ in Goethe 's words ] to " live resolutely in wholeness and fullness " . |
| 6 | When a child looks for a particular size box or a piece of material of a certain colour or texture , he is taking early steps towards sorting . |
| 7 | Jemima Puddle-Duck looks for a quiet spot . |
| 8 | The second wave occurs at puberty when the young person looks for a sexual partner , and if there has been minimum conflict during the phallic phase this is of the opposite sex . |
| 9 | It looks towards a statutory requirement that representatives of trade unions should be appointed , in that capacity , to the directing boards of companies . |
| 10 | At first glance it looks like a straightforward consequence of overaccumulation ( chapter 11 ) . |
| 11 | With binoculars it looks like a faint blur , easy enough with × 7 , while with × 20 there is an indication of resolution into stars at its outer edges . |
| 12 | Thus laden , I rode the 20 miles to Picton and caught the ferry ; stayed overnight in Wellington and then took the train to Auckland — no problems in putting the bike aboard ; and this journey lived up to expectations and surpassed them ; the scenery through the ‘ King Country ’ in autumn is quite unrivalled , and again looks like a superb area for a cycle tour . |
| 13 | After starting out a special interest magazine , Skin 2 now looks like a mainstream style mag ( sometimes you feel it ca n't be long before S&M will make it into M&S ) . |
| 14 | Seen from its ten o'clock , the Apache looks like a modern twin of the late Fifties . |
| 15 | It looks like a modern photograph to me . |
| 16 | Hamburg 's decision to follow suit looks like a shining opportunity for venturesome British outfits , but there are snags . |
| 17 | ‘ And you have your clothes draped around so that the place looks like a hand-me-down shop , ’ he grumbled . |
| 18 | ‘ The ECC looks like a practical , realistic design incorporating features that must be worth pursuing further , ’ said one judge . |
| 19 | There 's a half-open hatch there leading into what looks like a deep , oddly cube-shaped cupboard ; it 's a dumb waiter . |
| 20 | The pool filter usually looks like a deep tray . |
| 21 | Fader — Looks like a normal block , but crumbles away when you step on it ! |
| 22 | Chomper — Looks like a normal block , but it eats poor ol' Rufus alive ! |
| 23 | Beta , at a distance of 78 light-years , is of special note because it seems to be associated with material which could possibly indicate a planetary system , and has actually been photographed from the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile , though to the ordinary observer Beta looks like a normal white star . |
| 24 | He looks like a nice feller . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ This looks like a nice spot ’ |
| 26 | So erm mark your axes , work out what your scale is going to be , to fit it all on , I mean that that looks like a nice fit . |
| 27 | What looks like a nice smooth field to you could be a field of barley or hay . |
| 28 | It looks like a nice er subject for the campaign for May . |
| 29 | Figure 2 in the paper looks like a classic example of unilateral reflux nephropathy rather than chronic pyelonephritis . |
| 30 | A specimen of basalt taken from a cold lava flow , however , is not a particularly inspiring object at all — in most cases , it probably looks like a dirty black lump of clinker . |