Example sentences of "[noun pl] looked [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travers looked around the squalid room . |
| 2 | The 1980 pictures looked like a stacked combination of flat images . |
| 3 | He says : ‘ As the recession deepened clients looked for a greater degree of measurability and a lower investment requirement . |
| 4 | The sudden resignations looked like a fatal blow to Mr Ciampi at the start of reform . |
| 5 | With the Edwardian figure of Macmillan as leader of the party and the government , a man who had begun his career by advocating a dirigiste stance against the liberal economic tendencies of the Baldwin-Chamberlain era , the Conservatives looked to an interventionist strategy to stave off political and economic reversals . |
| 6 | Each of the poems looked at a different sort of love : that of parents and children , of friends , of lovers , of God … . |
| 7 | Whereas once the working class might have looked to the middle classes for an example of probity and upright behaviour , now the middle classes looked to the working class as the custodians of vanishing tradition and folk culture . |
| 8 | Workers looked to the national state , over which democracy gave them some influence , to protect them against the ravages of an unregulated world economy . |
| 9 | We will never know how that would develop because community charge has been abolished but anyway You will note of course as well that last year in nineteen ninety one , the Conservative Party managers looked at the local election result and decided not to go in June ninety one , cos they figured they would get beaten . |
| 10 | His eyes behind the glasses looked like the full moon shining into two windows . |
| 11 | The monks looked upon the small bridge and pathway as a God-given right of access . |
| 12 | Foreign investors looked at the higher yield of gilts over German government bonds without worrying about exchange risk . |
| 13 | The reason for this seems to have been that Victorian British industrialists looked for a quick return , while the Germans were more prepared to take a long view . |
| 14 | ‘ In those days your servants looked after the heavy luggage . |
| 15 | Certainly the scent I witnessed ( through binoculars ) through the left side of the arched overhangs looked like a modern classic in the making ! |
| 16 | When they heard about the accident , the men looked for the brown envelope at once . |
| 17 | It is in Ravenna that the most accurate impression can be gained of how such interiors looked in the Byzantine era . |
| 18 | The boys looked on the Venetian corner as a godsend and came every day as soon as they were out of school to throw stones at it . |