Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bits of the well-organised election looked like a utopian dream of the new world order : Indians and Canadians , Ghanaians and Australians , travelling the countryside with helicopter-borne polling stations , bringing democracy to grateful if puzzled peasants in distant Cambodian villages . |
| 2 | This second issue of European Update looks at some of out recent initiatives . |
| 3 | Now their raging passions looked like tearing asunder one of the strongest rigs in the North Sea . |
| 4 | Imagine that you 're a complete beginner looking for a versatile sewing machine for dressmaking , soft furnishings and embroidery . |
| 5 | The influence of the document on the SSD is noticeable ; there are two working groups looking at developing guidance on residential care and training and sexuality . |
| 6 | ‘ Further , as the minister of state , Lord Fraser , said recently , we currently have a major interdepartmental working group looking at all aspects of criminal justice legislation besides some eight other working groups looking at particular aspects of the system . |
| 7 | There are instruments of a sort for upholding blue rights : working groups look into ‘ disappearances ’ , rapporteurs are attached to particularly sinful countries . |
| 8 | The governing body will almost certainly need to set up sub-committees or working groups to look at different aspects of the school 's development . |
| 9 | Interviews also took place with parents in 10 of the 25 cases selected for follow-up.The study looked at cases during the first six months after the initial case conference . |
| 10 | Home-grown teenagers look at their parents and think , ‘ I ca n't have been produced by them ! |
| 11 | Thinking fatigue had got the better of his tired mind , Jack Hayden did not worry unduly until the following Monday morning when a porter who had been working on the station Platform came to the mess room and saw a strange figure looking at Mr Hayden . |
| 12 | In Alpine shops look for wooden cooking utensils , walking sticks and Loden capes . |
| 13 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 14 | The Institute 's Education & Training Directorate and the General Practitioner Board have been watching the falling numbers of students training in small firms with deep concern and both have set up working parties to look at the problems . |
| 15 | My usual script looks like demented knitting , but among my manuscripts I am still surprised to find poem drafts and diary entries in neat italic calligraphy , painstakingly produced with a special calligraphic pen , or ‘ disguised ’ and back-sloping hands , or the ‘ progressive ’ styles I had copied from my art students in Corsham . |
| 16 | got cod roe and fish cakes for supper and bought four salmon heads ( OH how I hate those glazed eyes looking at me when first one steams them to get the good flesh off ) for soup . |
| 17 | He is now concentrating on providing M&A services to Japanese clients looking for acquisitions in Europe , Japanese clients looking for domestic acquisitions and European clients looking for Japanese acquisitions . |
| 18 | Labour candidates looked to the record of reform . |
| 19 | Chairman Garry Gibson revealed that Murray had been in touch with a string of top clubs looking for pre-deadline newcomers . |
| 20 | This project examines a variety of these initiatives in a small number of English cities looking at how they began , their strengths and weaknesses , capacity for job creation and training , links to other groups and use of financial and technical support services . |
| 21 | In a speech in Brussels in November 1991 , Sir Geoffrey laid out his stall as a British retailer looking for partners in Europe . |
| 22 | The crackpot halfway-house idea of the Labour party , in which Scottish institutions look after Scottish affairs and Scottish Members of Parliament dabble in English affairs , would be unacceptable to the people of England . |
| 23 | While war could create serious difficulties for the merchant class , other social groups looked at it in a different light . |
| 24 | She spoke in a soft , quiet voice and old Ben looked at her in surprise . |
| 25 | So that again , once a week you have a visual image of what different resorts look like , but this time in colour . |
| 26 | Her beautiful brown eyes looked at my face . |
| 27 | Sid 's soft , wide spaced brown eyes looked at her , betraying his obvious affection . |
| 28 | She saw a young , rather handsome man , whose brown eyes looked at her in a way she found slightly disturbing , though this was not the kind of thing she would have admitted to anybody but herself . |
| 29 | A pair of brown eyes looked into her own deep blue ones . |
| 30 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |