Example sentences of "[adv] look as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you need evidence of that , you need only look as far as the Trust operation now running acute health services in South Tees . ’ |
| 2 | The space inside looked as much like a junkyard as the space outside . |
| 3 | For one thing there have been too many of them already ( Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine in America , perhaps the best and almost the only vehicle for the crime short story , no longer looks as new Holmes tales , as I know to my cost . ) |
| 4 | Actually Hamilton himself , so smart and handsome when he travels , soon looked as grimy and fatalistic as everybody else . |
| 5 | Rainey 's YZR meanwhile looked as rideable as ever and he no longer needs to broadside his Dunlops as he did in 1989 . |
| 6 | At nineteen , it always looks as simple as this . |
| 7 | His rangy , graceless figure , over six feet high , still looked as incongruous in a formal suit as it always had . |
| 8 | Only Rayne , standing on the stairs with his fingers idly drumming on the lid of a tin of Scottish shortbread , still looked as sleek as he had before the siege . |
| 9 | As quality carpet it still looks as good as ever ( apart from two small areas of wear ) in spite of being well used ( I have five grandsons ) . |
| 10 | Still looks as good as new though do n't it ? |
| 11 | Just a few years younger , the Pullman Astoria still looks as grand as when Churchill stayed there , though the neighbourhood has certainly lost some of its sparkle ( Upper Town , 103 Rue Royale , telephone 02/2176290 , cost 6,000 fr ) . |
| 12 | and he used to come home looking as white as a sheet sick to the teeth and he used to just go to bed and collapse in a heap , he is n't strong enough to do it and it 's pointless for him to try but other than that he can do anything he fancies . |
| 13 | Still looking as good as ever . |
| 14 | I said smiling , ‘ If you always look as fabulous as you did on Thursday when you visit him I would n't bet on that reaction . |
| 15 | It is also easier to introduce customers to unusual varieties of apple , which may not always look as glossy and appealing as those we 've become used to , but taste far superior . |
| 16 | Valerie Cass now looked as pale as her daughter . |
| 17 | Amiss looked as miserable as he felt . |
| 18 | Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’ |