Example sentences of "look rather " in BNC.
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| 1 | The declining trend from the troubled days of the early 1980s has been reversed , and if the rate of increase continues into 1990 the next decade will look rather bleak . |
| 2 | Stripped of his blue tussore , Vigo himself might look rather like that , Wexford thought . |
| 3 | ‘ It should look rather like an Oxford college by the time we are finished , ’ he says , although he emphasises that no alterations will be made before full permission is granted by the planners . |
| 4 | I had expressed concern that after the long journey , probably spent standing in the corridor , I might look rather haggard , so the wearing of a yashmak was suggested , especially as Leslie would be used to seeing this item of female camouflage in the souks and cafés of North Africa from Alexandria to Algiers . |
| 5 | These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones . |
| 6 | What seems plain maltreatment at the time could look rather different in the quiet surroundings of a tribunal or courtroom months or years later . |
| 7 | to harp it Does look rather |
| 8 | This is because , despite its great charm , it does look rather odd to most cat-lovers . |
| 9 | This time Sausage accompanied her , and as she set off with the the two small boys and their three dogs , Korah , Dathan and Abiram , she reflected that they must look rather like a circus . |
| 10 | Some pots can look rather sparse at first but with good compost , regular feeding and attention to watering , they soon fill out into good-sized plants . |
| 11 | The supplied footswitch ( hooray ) works fine , even if the buttons do look rather insubstantial . |
| 12 | This can look rather dull on its own so brighten it up with a row of tall , colourful glassware to decorate the windowsill . |
| 13 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 14 | For our present purpose , though , they would look rather flat and not very magical : try it and you 'll probably agree . |
| 15 | For instance , if you choose fairly large material you will be limited in the amount you can use and the resulting picture may look rather dull . |
| 16 | Any flowers can be used , but take care to get the scale exactly right — using just one very large flower can look rather out of place , and if the flowers you wish to use are tiny , it will need a very complicated design to fill the card . |
| 17 | It 's a long-lasting finish and relatively inexpensive to buy but can look rather drab . |
| 18 | With some punch lace designs , if you reverse the lights from the setting intended by the designer you will get large areas knitted in the fine yarn only , which can look rather messy . |
| 19 | Mr Major keeps his elbows on the table , and claps his fingers together but not the base of his hands , which makes him look rather like a seal . |
| 20 | I only put on ten pounds — in fact I did look rather skinny amongst all the other opera singers . |
| 21 | Soon I was approached by the manager of the Otago side , Fred Daniels , who , like Mains , could look rather sterner than his equable temperament would suggest . |
| 22 | The extended stake can look rather unusual , especially for a while after pruning , but that is a small price to pay to ensure safety . |
| 23 | The formal ought may look rather too like an artificial construct brought in to make the theory work and some might well wonder how the special functional legal ought could simultaneously be regarded , as I purport to regard it , as a moral ought . |
| 24 | However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time . |
| 25 | This is not to say that women 's experience , perceptions , feelings and emotions are self-validating and constitute in themselves an epistemological standpoint , or even to say that they are always correctly identified and described , but it is to suggest that philosophy would look rather different if women 's experience had the same rights of entry as that of men . |
| 26 | A tall chimney above the heating plant and workshops made it look rather like a factory under guard . |
| 27 | The anthracite finish on these cupboard doors could look rather cold and stark on its own but is lifted by the warm beech trim |
| 28 | It' er nothing to show out or stand out or look rather pleasant . |
| 29 | If it does n't then what you created on the computer screen and proofed on a page printer may well look rather different to that which you get back from the typesetter . |
| 30 | But in Britain Marxism still had no more than minimal adherence and we must look rather to the re-emergence of the Labour Party from a decade in the shadows , when it was riven by international faction and uncertainty over international pacifism and rearmament . |