Example sentences of "[not/n't] look [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We should not look for a simple reflection : ‘ a single , fixed mode of exchange ; in reality there are many modes , their character is determined historically , and they are continually renegotiated ’ .
2 It made it clear that , whatever their achievements in the past , the direct-grant schools could not look towards a stable future within the national system of education .
3 Now she did not look like a young girl , she looked like the sister of a count , and Maggie stepped into the breach swiftly .
4 Mr Major does not look like a prime minister with a secret agenda up his sleeve .
5 But America does not look like a disorganised company most of whose workers do not have a boss ; or at least it did not the last time it deserved worldwide respect .
6 She did not look like a predatory widow and she was no superannuated dolly-bird either ; she must have been fifty , she was on the plump side , clear skinned , with a frank , open face .
7 Dr Tyrell stressed that the results do not mean that a similar vaccine can be made for HIV ‘ but at least the road now does not look like a dead end ’ .
8 She did not look like a happy woman .
9 When Samuel arrived in England in 1939 , after a hazardous journey of two months , the country did not look like a safe place in which to live .
10 Sir Richard Body Tory MP for Holland-with-Boston in Lincolnshire does n't look like a radical Maverick ; indeed you could be forgiven for thinking he is the original grey man of politics .
11 that so it does n't look like a new fence we planted quick .
12 Does n't look like a perfect pitch ?
13 Not worthy of a photograph I should n't think There 's the Queen Mother again , does n't say how old she is There is the picture of the doctor , mind you he does n't look like a junior doctor , he 's Pakistani and he looks about fifty !
14 She did n't look like a great warrior , but Hawk sensed her strength immediately .
15 Yet it did n't look like a photocopying machine .
16 ‘ You do n't look like a common whore to me . ’
17 erm you can hybridize these two , you can second generations , backcrosses and so on , the analysis has been made , and we know that there is n't a single large gene producing that effect — we know that there are quite a number of genes of reasonably small effect , we do n't know exactly how many but certainly it does n't look like a hopeful monster .
18 Not always noticed because if it 's called Cements it does n't look like a foreign company , but if it 's called Mitsubishi or something well , it will stand out .
19 It does n't look like a rubber tree
20 Yeah but it did n't look like a rubber tree .
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