Example sentences of "[conj] it look [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observe , measure , sketch , test by tapping , prodding with your screwdriver where it looks suspicious . |
| 2 | Except it looked harmless no longer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She moved quickly to examine the long narrow table that had forms on either side , and although it looked clean enough she was not happy until she had washed it . |
| 5 | Now , looks pretty horrendous alright , but if we bum data on S T , S T minus one , S T minus two and P T minus one , all actual variables , if we bung those into the microfit and ask them to form the regression , it would do , right , it would just you 'd get S T equals A plus B that 's T minus one plus C A T minus two plus D A T minus one alright , and B T So before we we 'll call that equation four right , so although it looks nasty alright it 's fairly straightforward , it 's all , all we 're doing is , we 'd be asking the computer to regress S T on constant like how you would yourself T minus one to like values T minus two and like prices okay . |
| 6 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 7 | Here , the shapely Am Bodach makes you ache to carry on , and although it looks sharp but simple , there is quite a vertigo-inducing section of easy scrambling at the top that may catch those without a head for heights unawares . |
| 8 | ‘ You see , your mother 's is a photograph of a masterpiece by Bronzino , while your friend 's painting , although it looks similar , is actually a damned good copy of the original . ’ |
| 9 | The result is heavily dependent on the use of reinforced concrete , and although it looks impressive , it does n't feel right . |
| 10 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 11 | They made the bed up , so that it looked ordinary . |
| 12 | Her iron hand was even harder on the pastry , and affected its colour as well so that it looked dark and oppressed . |
| 13 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 14 | One of its virtues was that it looked temporary : these may be abnormal times , it seemed to proclaim , but one day terrorism will be beaten , and once again doting parents will be able to photograph ambitious children on the steps of No. 10 . |
| 15 | In vain did her mother insist that the material was expensive , and that anyone , looking at it , would know that it was expensive , for Clara knew in her heart of hearts that it looked cheap . |
| 16 | Lucy thought that it looked fine . |
| 17 | The top was also a little long , but not so that it looked foolish . |
| 18 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 19 | It was all necessary , no doubt , but with all the optimism of his youth he could n't see that it looked promising . |
| 20 | Baron of Buchlyvie was brought into the ring and everyone agreed that it looked magnificent . |
| 21 | That 's worse that it looks terrible that |
| 22 | When it gets too dangerous it will be a matter of simulating what 's supposed to happen so that it looks real to the TV audience , but not to those involved . |
| 23 | Made from Scandinavian Redwood which has a distinctive warmth and grain , the Ducal range is made to very high standards which means that it looks good , works well and is designed to last . |
| 24 | no they just like , think that it looks good because they are being seen to go to church |
| 25 | Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye . |
| 26 | That 's up is that it looks that way . |
| 27 | though that it looks such a flimsy structure , that you know its gon na be shored up with walls . |
| 28 | One can ask : does he mean that the horizontal moon , perhaps owing to some magnifying effect of the earth 's atmosphere , actually presents a larger appearance than the meridian moon , or does he mean merely that it looks bigger , perhaps because it is seen in a context of trees and houses ? |
| 29 | One does not say of a cornflower that it looks blue — unless , of course , one wants to exhibit one 's sophistication in the matter of colours being ‘ secondary qualities ’ . |
| 30 | That one does not say of a cornflower that it looks blue is a linguistic point , not a psychological one . |