Example sentences of "it looks [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks blacker than black by artificial light and much pleasanter by daylight . |
| 2 | One can ask : does he mean that the horizontal moon , perhaps owing to some magnifying effect of the earth 's atmosphere , actually presents a larger appearance than the meridian moon , or does he mean merely that it looks bigger , perhaps because it is seen in a context of trees and houses ? |
| 3 | We had a good view of Sao Paulo as we flew over it — so massive , it looks bigger than New York , and you can almost see it grow as you watch it , because all round the outskirts of the city are straggling half-finished ‘ shanty town housing estates ’ , with dirt roads and little hut-like dwellings , as it seemed from the air . |
| 4 | It looks bigger than umm |
| 5 | Manager Barry Forshaw said that the ground floor of the shop was ‘ wrecked ’ , but added that it looked as if no structural damage had been done : ‘ it looks worse than it really is ’ . |
| 6 | it looks worse |
| 7 | Pete has never touched my hair in my life and there was some downstairs in that bathroom downstairs and I thought hey that looks a bit of fun , I 'll have a go at that and erm and I was outside and I took my hair down , I 'd just washed it and I said oh look , you know , I used this hair thickening shampoo do you think it looks thicker , as a joke , and he goes yeah it does actually , yeah it really does . |
| 8 | After I had fired the frame they would want to look through the camera and would actually retake it with his own finger , saying ‘ It looks better like this . ’ |
| 9 | If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake . |
| 10 | Erm actually it 's about the same , but it looks better in my accounts . |
| 11 | ‘ It looks better — you know ? ’ |
| 12 | If it looks better with a picture , use one . |
| 13 | you 've got erm three , three and a half percent say per annum , er plus erm a superbonus which is perhaps five percent of additional bonuses , so it looks better but it is n't really . |
| 14 | It looks better , does n't it , if he agrees with what the Bishop wants . |
| 15 | They 're quite good it looks better than them for office do n't it ? they 're dual power battery and solar |
| 16 | It looks better than it did . |
| 17 | It looks better all the same colour instead of some walls green , some walls white . |
| 18 | It looks better for going around most of the edges and going over the grass . |
| 19 | It looks better all the time do n't it ? |
| 20 | It looks better on your record than being made redundant |
| 21 | Oh it 's nice it looks better |
| 22 | definitely it looks better . |
| 23 | Well it looks better . |
| 24 | And even though that colour is n't really in the tile it looks better . |
| 25 | But hang on , the fingerboard 's maple where we 'd expect African rosewood , and it looks wider . |
| 26 | The neck has been bound to include the fret ends , which is another nice touch as it looks tidier and actually adds quite a lot to the overall feel of the fingerboard . |
| 27 | The first crag seen as you enter the valley is Buckbarrow Crag — a mere ten minutes from the car ( yes , I know it looks further but trust me ) . |
| 28 | M36 is usually given as slightly brighter than M37 ; to me it looks fainter , though more condensed , and again there is a hint of resolution with × 20 . |
| 29 | The building was 84 metres high , though because it was situated on a hill , with five storeys below ground , it looks shorter than it is . |