Example sentences of "does [adv] [verb] like a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major does not look like a prime minister with a secret agenda up his sleeve . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Neat terraced houses , densely populated , it does n't vote like a northern city unfortunately . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the odd black one that does n't look like a key at all . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Does n't look like a perfect pitch ? |
| 9 | that so it does n't look like a new fence we planted quick . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It does n't look like a rubber tree |
| 13 | Now some people , even though the Green Party has er been an established party for some time now , might feel that er it , this is the Green Party perhaps coming of age because it does n't sound like a Green issue , you 're , you 're discussing things across the board at the moment are n't you |