Example sentences of "look [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only ask because Mr Hamlyn has made them look remarkably similar — the main difference is that Ms Rendell has a splendid pair of naked buttocks perched on her head where her hair should be . |
| 2 | Indeed , despite his disillusion with the present reality and underneath the modest ambition he communicated to Rohde , he cherished an almost missionary hope that if and when he was himself in a position to exert influence , the future of his subject might look altogether different . |
| 3 | Do n't put too much make up on or else it 'll look dead false ! |
| 4 | This can look rather dull on its own so brighten it up with a row of tall , colourful glassware to decorate the windowsill . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What I have just related will look rather familiar to those who examine the Bill that we will debate next week . |
| 7 | After Dottie 's remark , Charles could n't help thinking that the two of them did look rather intimate . |
| 8 | I only put on ten pounds — in fact I did look rather skinny amongst all the other opera singers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ — it will make us look rather small fry . ’ |
| 11 | No , I do n't think so , but it certainly does look rather weak . ’ |
| 12 | When you are a new parent , preschool television programmes can look rather ridiculous : strange mincing mimes , presenters who say ‘ Hello ’ in that peculiar staccato voice never heard anywhere else , apparently pointless dolls and puppets . |
| 13 | For our present purpose , though , they would look rather flat and not very magical : try it and you 'll probably agree . |
| 14 | It' er nothing to show out or stand out or look rather pleasant . |
| 15 | This is because , despite its great charm , it does look rather odd to most cat-lovers . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , there is and there is n't , ’ said Calatin , frowning , which made him look rather odd . |
| 17 | This usually makes the chords look rather odd on paper , but this does not worry the harpist , who , as we have said , connects each note , whatever its chromatic inflexion , with a particular string . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So the distance makes something look rather fainter , and similarly if you have something like a particular kind of start that you can identify by some property — which we 'll perhaps talk about in a moment — if you can identify it and you know how bright it is , then the fainter ones are further away and you can estimate the distance by how faint they are . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The extended stake can look rather unusual , especially for a while after pruning , but that is a small price to pay to ensure safety . |
| 22 | The supplied footswitch ( hooray ) works fine , even if the buttons do look rather insubstantial . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It 's a long-lasting finish and relatively inexpensive to buy but can look rather drab . |
| 26 | What seems plain maltreatment at the time could look rather different in the quiet surroundings of a tribunal or courtroom months or years later . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 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 | However , things can look rather different from the angle of those just above the exemption limit . |