Example sentences of "looks like an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He probably looks like an absolute berk in this outfit . |
| 2 | It looks like an average piece of As bond at first sight but it is n't actually a standard size at all . |
| 3 | The repeated victory of the owner against intruders looks like an arbitrary convention , obeyed by both individuals , that the ‘ owner always wins ’ . |
| 4 | There was possibly another reason why they were kept away from it : the Linotype , hot , clanking and oily , looks like an industrial machine . |
| 5 | The Castle looks like an obscene multi-fingered , clawed hand , trying to tear the heart out of the sky . |
| 6 | Once a cheerleader at the University of Texas , she looks like an innocent suburban housewife unknowingly mixed up in the rough-and-tumble world of Texas politics . |
| 7 | Mm , that looks like an innocent little er |
| 8 | ‘ Scope ’ looks like an assured chart return . |
| 9 | ‘ Scope ’ looks like an assured chart return . |
| 10 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 11 | The average Vadinamian looks like an over-sized larva , boneless and segmented . |
| 12 | AMT 's Accel-123 dot matrix printer has what looks like an embryonic serial part protruding from the back . |
| 13 | They grey and filthy 2,000 capacity venue looks like an outsized Hammersmith Clarendon . |
| 14 | ‘ She is young , she looks like an ordinary child . |
| 15 | It LOOKS like an ordinary card , but has differences that are invisible to the naked eye . |
| 16 | As you can see from the shots , the graphics are eggstremely good , eggcept for the main sprite which looks like an albino Pac-man having a crap . |
| 17 | I also tried the Graham Potentialiser , which looks like an expensive piece of Italian designer furniture . |
| 18 | The front grille is heavy-duty metal and lends the entire rig a very military personality ; it looks like an efficient machine from the outset . |
| 19 | Implying the piece rates paid to nominally independent cottage craftsmen by the capitalists who controlled most rural industry , ‘ profits ’ looks like an elliptical term for ‘ wages ’ . |
| 20 | Several people have seen an animal on the moor that looks like an enormous hound . |
| 21 | It also looks like an original engine if you wish to preserve originality . |
| 22 | The place looks like an empty public bar . |
| 23 | ‘ I like the way the pyracantha looks like an oversized bonsai , ’ Claudia explained . |
| 24 | And Darren looks like an oversized leprechaun , all dressed in green and ready to go , meanwhile I 'm reporting this excellent news to you guys if you are listening out there from the national library association , er , er , er , er |
| 25 | It looks like an allergic rash . |
| 26 | It 's looks like an Indian woman asleep on a pillow . |
| 27 | Certainly , Cicciolina is a beautiful woman who looks like an older , sleazy Brooke Shields with straight , platinum-blond hair and a strange set of thick , auburn-tinted brows . |
| 28 | Yes , I know it looks like an inverted yacht and that the garde that the D series was avant never materialised , but a production-line car which combines such a ridiculously optimistic view of the public 's aesthetic sensibilities with so much understanding of daily long-distance driving has to have a lot going for it . |
| 29 | Anne read the guidebooks , while I 'd say , ‘ Hey , this looks like an interesting airfield ! ’ to which Anne would reply , £The fact that the place has an interesting approach does not mean that I want to spend my holidays there ! ’ |
| 30 | He looks like an interesting type . |