Example sentences of "looks to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The best bet looks to be you going into a Salvation Army hostel , them sorting out your benefits , and you using the hostel as a base from which to find something else . |
| 2 | But the geographical differences pale when they are compared to the deep threefold divisions which rend the city itself : of language ( four-fifths of the population speak French , only one fifth English and the smaller languages ) ; of culture ( the French-speaking part naturally looks to France and French literature for its mores , while the English-speaking part relies on the attachment to the Commonwealth and its close neighbour , the United States of America ) ; and of religion ( for the gulfs here are wider than the Atlantic as the former protestant cross-sectioning of Episcopalianism/Presbyterianism meets the Roman Catholicism of the French , and both meet the surging secularism and agnosticism of our day ) . |
| 3 | I would like to suggest that John Adler looks to his own laurels before criticising rough carpenters . |
| 4 | It also , more generally , looks to the RUC as the force most concerned with combating the IRA . |
| 5 | The matter of the drama continues to be eclectic as Eliot pokes beneath the glossy city surface to hidden depths of feeling , and as so often looks to Buddhism as well as Christianity . |
| 6 | Eccleshall appears to be on stronger ground when he looks to the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries for evidence of libertarian Conservatism . |
| 7 | The badge looks to be from the '50s . |
| 8 | It looks to me as if-in accord with our country 's culture generally-recent Black art is harsher , more hurt , more despairing . |
| 9 | But what now clearly looks to be the gravest threat to Mr Ceausescu 's 24-year period of iron rule remained unreported by the Romanian media . |
| 10 | Looks to me like she 's forgotten to come back for you , son . |
| 11 | More successful than any of these methods , however , looks to be a new biological weapon , a nematode . |
| 12 | When the body is elastic , the strain converts kinetic into potential energy … like drawing the string of a longbow , or winding the spring of a clock , or charging an electrical condensor , or filling a balloon with hot air … and it looks to be alive . |
| 13 | The price of a more elaborate service and burial looks to be £17,000 . |
| 14 | European Business : Aeroflot looks to the West |
| 15 | While our sports leaders recognise the contribution they can make to providing a ‘ healthy outlet ’ , they are concerned that , although government looks to them to play this role , it is often not prepared to assist them . |
| 16 | The priority for Leeds at the start of the season was a place in Europe and despite leading the table for much of the season that now looks to be their only target — although it is far from guaranteed . |
| 17 | The race is also being used by Poland , Mexico , Norway and Denmark as their trials for the Olympic Games and though the field is not so strong at the front , it looks to be a proving ground for the visitors , in an effort to beat times already set by their countrymen to enable them to go to Barcelona . |
| 18 | Moreover , although the Queen 's Park pitch looks to be true and lacking in pace , there must be serious concern about the South African batsmen . |
| 19 | Dare any Conservative MEP explain how all this looks to political leaders on the Continent ? |
| 20 | The democrat looks to a parliament to ensure that the executive is kept under scrutiny and prevented from abusing its powers . |
| 21 | Crown of thorns looks to us like a plague ; a disease of the reef . |
| 22 | ‘ It looks to us like Ralston 's Fruitshop , ’ Harriet said . |
| 23 | The future of the breed in Australia looks to be in good hands , although some moves towards getting a clearer definition of type must be made . |
| 24 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 25 | L190 has a good start in clean air but it looks to be the unfavoured end of the line . |
| 26 | Cohen looks to the educational system for his explanation of delinquency . |
| 27 | It looks to you to provide it with that light . |
| 28 | Cockburn looks to changes within the managerial structures of local government and relates them to changes in the methods of management adopted in the private sector . |
| 29 | He respects the expectations of future beneficiaries ; by allowing the bonorum emptor temporary possession of the trust property he also looks to the interests of the creditors . |
| 30 | At the Centre Mondial , it looks to the outside observer as if the problem is reversed . |