Example sentences of "they [modal v] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would also avoid all those bent wire contraptions : they may look attractive in a well photographed catalogue but do little for the design of your garden . |
| 2 | They may look alike in shape and have some forms of behaviour in common , but they come from different parts of the world . |
| 3 | They may look forward to good occupational pension , a significant state earnings-related pension and a cash sum from maturing insurance policies . |
| 4 | These are all different kinds of ferns , although they may look alike to you . ’ |
| 5 | They may look at you and say , ‘ What is the matter ? |
| 6 | While many tests may have high face validity — that is , they may look as if they measure a particular linguistic ability — this is not a sufficient justification for using test data as a basis for clinical or educational decision-making . |
| 7 | They may look to parts of the tradition which are less inimical to them , for example stories that tell of the lives of women . |
| 8 | And I would urge the panel to send out their proposed leaflet to the ministers in various areas where the educational standards are not very high that they may look at them and put forward suggestions so that the leaflet that eventually comes out will be understood by the whole of our people and not just by the most educated . |
| 9 | They may look |
| 10 | Whatever they may look like , they do all fly , it 's the only way to get there . |
| 11 | Now that Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland have their independence back , they must look after their security for themselves . |
| 12 | They must look equally imposing on the breakfast table . |
| 13 | At a recent ceremony to reward companies on export achievement , one speaker reminded manufacturers that they must look beyond the home-market to sell their goods . |
| 14 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They must look like something from a fair booth — a shrimp and a black giant tied together ! |
| 17 | But in having to work together they are doing no more than thousands of couples and millions of professional people who may not like each other but who understand that there are times when they must look positive . |
| 18 | Then before each row of the circular rows , they must look at the side lever of the main carriage that is nearest the knitting . |
| 19 | People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them . |
| 20 | People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them . |
| 21 | It is mainly to adult adventure stones that they must look for the romantic and chivalric manifestations of love towards which they reach in adolescence ; such feelings are by convention regarded as unseemly and unsuitable in books written specifically for the young . |
| 22 | Animated models of robots , as opposed to those of organic creatures , do not need to move ‘ naturally ’ but they still need to move convincingly — and they must look convincing too . |
| 23 | She thought vaguely that they must look very striking , like a shot from a new-wave British film , locked in an embrace beside the broken statue in this dead fun palace , with the November dusk swirling around them and Finn 's hair so ginger , hers so black , spun together by the soft little hands of a tiny wind , yellow and black hairs tangled together . |
| 24 | Always to looks — and they must look like prizes — |
| 25 | Rachaela thought they must look a very normal family group : Emma the fond grandmother ; Rachaela the mother with her black-haired baby . |
| 26 | Shelley reflected that they must look less like a doctor and a nurse discussing their clinic rota , and a lot more like a couple in love murmuring sweet nothings . |
| 27 | Cos he 's quite good in a , but it 's so easy to get wrapped up with , obviously at that age it 's very impressionable and very like they , they must look so big to a lot of people that they go out |
| 28 | He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them . |
| 29 | He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car . |
| 30 | In all sex offence cases juries are warned that that it is ‘ dangerous ’ to accept the word of the alleged victim alone and that they should look for corroboration . |