Example sentences of "look [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sitting-room was long , and looked as if a child had been let loose with buckets of primary colours . |
| 2 | His toe-nails looked as if a knife would blunt on them and could not have been cut for months , possibly years . |
| 3 | She 'd found no sign of life anywhere on her travels , no supporting staff , though the house and gardens looked as if an army of faithful family retainers had slaved there for centuries . |
| 4 | The coin looked as if the minter struck it on a single die , punching the image in the metal in repoussé , so hard that the inverted ear on the reverse would appear on the other side , and could be read the right way round in shallow relief when the coin was turned over . |
| 5 | Everything seemed to be going well , and it must have looked as if the weight of Galileo and the rest of the scientific world might succeed and get a thorough revision of orthodox science . |
| 6 | This is a Southern Asian fish which can reach lengths well over 24in ( 60cm ) , with a base colour of gold/brown , it then looks as if a tyre has run along the length of the body leaving dark brown tread markings all along the eel . |
| 7 | He just looks as if a puff of wind would blow him away , ’ George finished . |
| 8 | She looks as if a wind could blow her away . " |
| 9 | Turns round and looks as if a bus had hit it . |
| 10 | AFTER years of lobbying , it looks as if the Government will bring in legislation to force brewers to list the ingredients in their beers . |
| 11 | With Bath to play their last match at home , it looks as if the title will once again belong to the West Country , even if Orrell were to win their last two games , as Bath 's points difference is much the greater . |
| 12 | In this case too it looks as if the decision is out of line with the most obvious interpretation of the words . |
| 13 | So er it looks as if the decision 's against , so I 'm almost sure that the decision at Johnstown will be against . |
| 14 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 15 | Number three has a quite different style of roundel and , to me it looks as if the tail stripe colours are reversed ! |
| 16 | It looks as if the day may not be so far away when we can all do our shopping , banking and working from our homes . |
| 17 | ‘ It looks as if the fog wants to come in , ’ she said absently . |
| 18 | It looks as if the manuscript version ( with a different ordering from the printed one ) was the one submitted to Mizler , while the engraved plates may well not have been used until after Bach 's death , providing a companion to the posthumous printing of The art of fugue . |
| 19 | At present , it looks as if the craft ( which will be launched in 1985 ) will carry only test signals to start with . |
| 20 | It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality . |
| 21 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 22 | The fact that virtually all of them cross the Roman road , which was created in the first century AD , suggests that at least some of these features were there in the landscape before the road was built ; here , as elsewhere , it looks as if the road was put in arbitrarily across the landscape with little heed to existing features , much as when new roads and motorways are built today . |
| 23 | " It looks as if the blood flowed fairly steadily , but without any preliminary splashing . |
| 24 | It remains to be seen whether they will still be in business to take the show to London in April ; it looks as if the outcome of the Northern group may rest on the Roses game later in the month . |
| 25 | I 'm afraid that it looks as if the game will be completely ruined . |
| 26 | But it is also worth noting that evidence has been found of burials and drainage channels that appears to be pre-date any of the recorded cathedral buildings , and it now looks as if the site has a longer ecclesiastical history than was thought . ’ |
| 27 | er looks as if the snow 's excellent does n't it ? |
| 28 | A British commentator , for example , writing in 1768 when her reputation as an enlightened ruler was at its height , thought that ‘ there is a sort of whim or affectation of singularity , in the manner of conferring her favours , that looks as if the desire of being spoken of , fully as much as the desire of doing good , was the fountain from which they flow ’ . |
| 29 | It looks as if the relegation issue in Division I wo n't be decided until Saturday week when Glasgow High-Kelvinside are away to Currie and Stirling County meet Boroughmuir at Bridgehaugh . |
| 30 | Given that Batch 3 courses are still to start — candidates will first enrol for them in the summer of 1992 — it looks as if the number of candidates involved in advanced courses in any one year is going to exceed 30,000 when the steady stage is eventually reached for the new system — and that the number of Higher National Unit enrolments per year will approach 200,000 . |