Example sentences of "[det] look [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 2 | Well I mean look at that that looks like a real fire . |
| 3 | That looks like a young man 's demagogy ( cp . |
| 4 | So erm mark your axes , work out what your scale is going to be , to fit it all on , I mean that that looks like a nice fit . |
| 5 | That looks like a little island with water round it . |
| 6 | Right , that looks like the hundred , that 's the sort of left over of the hundred , so it 's just equal to seventy five over a hundred , and you |
| 7 | Mm , that looks like an innocent little er |
| 8 | caw caw caw That looks like an old one to me does n't it ? |
| 9 | This looks like a good item for your Christmas shopping list ! |
| 10 | ‘ This looks like a good job , ’ I though , unaware that I had arrived in the middle of Danny Baker 's leaving party . |
| 11 | Now this looks like a good game to bet on , because a probability of one , is an absolute certainty . |
| 12 | ‘ This looks like a nice spot ’ |
| 13 | This looks like a tiny tadpole . |
| 14 | To account for this , we would need first of all to explain how the form how about VERBing is more or less restricted to usages in suggestions ( again , this looks like a linguistic form that has pragmatic rather than semantic content , a problem discussed in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ This looks like a delightful place . |
| 16 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 17 | Anne read the guidebooks , while I 'd say , ‘ Hey , this looks like an interesting airfield ! ’ to which Anne would reply , £The fact that the place has an interesting approach does not mean that I want to spend my holidays there ! ’ |
| 18 | I 've been praying for him and this looks like the best possible outcome . |
| 19 | ‘ This looks like the ideal time to push ahead . ’ |
| 20 | This looks like the same tape as Uncle Pauls erm is it ? |
| 21 | This looks after the day-to-day running of the Campaign , leaving the executive to consider major policy initiatives . |
| 22 | Another looked after the monthly staff employees . |
| 23 | Seen from the air this looked like a good green field to land in . |
| 24 | For the time being , and for many this looked like the foreseeable future , she had at least defined the territorial limits and the constituent parts of Vietnam . |
| 25 | That looking at a bald head , a stupid girl , and something else . |
| 26 | Scientists working in a team , each looking at a separate facet of a problem , may well throw light on details , but they are no more likely to make fundamental discoveries than monkeys with typewriters . |
| 27 | What persuades Quine , however , is not that his examples are so convincing but that he knows that there must be some examples , and these look like the best candidates . |
| 28 | We hope that when you 're at home watching the show it all looks like a relaxed , late evening chat — at least , that 's how it 's meant to come across . |
| 29 | and let's hope they 're all looking on the bright side of life for this week 's coca cola cup games … now there was a time when Gloucester rugby would always give us a cheer … but they 're down in the dumps too … |
| 30 | In education no single customer is always right , people are n't all looking for the same things . |