Example sentences of "look [adj] than [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policy-makers are looking closer than ever at how to tax multinationals more consistently . |
| 2 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 3 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 4 | She looked around for somewhere to sit , but the bed looked bigger than ever in the cramped room and his jacket lay discarded on the only chair . |
| 5 | She thought that he looked nicer than ever in his evening dress , and sounded nicer now that he had dropped his brusque , cold manner with her again . |
| 6 | Testing revealed the car 's promise , but BRM 's future looked rockier than ever in 1961 . |
| 7 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 8 | He looked more than ever as if stamped out of metal . |
| 9 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 10 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 11 | He looked more than ever like Don Quixote confronting the most formidable of spectral windmills ; and his tenor voice blazed from a reed to a trumpet in his indignation . |