Example sentences of "they can look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong lipstick shades are not only difficult to apply , but they can look overpowering , especially on sun-kissed skin . |
| 2 | ‘ They can look after themselves for once , ’ Frau Nordern said . |
| 3 | They lean back until they look as if they are about to fall over , so that they can look around them , and perhaps check who 's behind their back . |
| 4 | It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain . |
| 5 | Because of their large size and numbers ( they can look very much like a large serving of spaghetti ! ) , they can completely obstruct an intestine . |
| 6 | They speak of longing to be beautiful or of restrictions on what they can wear or how they can look , and of media images of young women and how this affects them . |
| 7 | If anybody wishes to see just how pernicious that influence can be , they can look at the Likud government in Israel , which has had to impose repressive legislation at the behest of religious extremists who hold the balance of power . |
| 8 | ‘ They can look after themselves . |
| 9 | Ruddy mortals , crouching and crawling around the under-carriage , they can look up for inspiration to the immaculate lives portrayed high on the walls of the workshop , to those models of determination and robust heroism familiar to all Soviet citizens : Riveters and Liberators , Welders and Flag-bearers , beaming Foundry-women with goggles thrown back on their brows like aviators from the Great Patriotic War . |
| 10 | Having faced life without the departed partner , they can look forward to fulfilling their dream of finding the one who will share their life in a more perfect union . |
| 11 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 12 | But they can look forward to 1993 with renewed optimism after conceding 81 goals in 50 senior matches during the past 12 months of instability and transition . |
| 13 | And these days they can look more attractive than ever when matched to hardwood window frames and internal doors . |
| 14 | She used to say , ‘ Hell , Tabs , they can look at you all the time if they want to . |
| 15 | and they can look at this anytime . |
| 16 | I mean you may have to support them through a sort of bad patch , but the idea is to erm get them so that they can look after themselves , you know . |
| 17 | Lit up in their various colours against a white wall they can look spectacular ; unlit they take on an almost sculptural quality . |
| 18 | Even at five or six years old they can look after the smaller ones and start fetching water and firewood . |
| 19 | I hope that the public understand that , in the event of a Labour Government , they can look forward to being milked by Labour councils that will levy high rates of their new tax — as well as being milked by a national Government through increased rates of income tax . |
| 20 | where they can look romantic ; where they must |
| 21 | It was on these - " moderate " walks that I came to appreciate the astonishing versatility of' the Dales , how inhospitably barren they can look from the brow of one hill , then how welcomingly like the gentle South Downs from the next ; how one village , little more than a pub and a row of stone cottages , might be as gaunt and forbidding as some remote Highland hamlet , while another will be so prettified and roses-round-the-door picturesque that , but for the backcloth of soaring hills or looming crags , and the uncoursed rubble walls wending like strips of children 's Plasticine up to the horizon , it could be in Mummerset . |
| 22 | They can look at it now get it out of the way . |
| 23 | And they can look at the horn and they can look at these things and they can look this is weld which is the herb that 's used to produce the green the yellow of the green . |
| 24 | And they can look at the horn and they can look at these things and they can look this is weld which is the herb that 's used to produce the green the yellow of the green . |
| 25 | And they can look at the horn and they can look at these things and they can look this is weld which is the herb that 's used to produce the green the yellow of the green . |
| 26 | They can look after him . ’ |
| 27 | Or they have a little book where they can look it up . |
| 28 | People want someone they can look up to . |
| 29 | We 'd like them to come along and see the horses working in the traditional way at the same time they can look at the Autumn colours . |
| 30 | No longer frowned on by even the most traditional institutions , they can look chic and incredibly efficient . |