Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks suspiciously like knee-jerk retributivism , spuriously ennobled by reference to the ‘ community ’ . |
| 2 | The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing . |
| 3 | It is at his feet that we throw ourselves like the bound figures which form the pedestal of this statue ( one captive looks upward with adoring eyes ) . |
| 4 | Stir until all ingredients are amalgamated and the whole mixture looks rather like thick honey , with about the same consistency . |
| 5 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 6 | Young enthusiasts drove across the border to join the freedom fighters who had appealed to the world to help , but the world in general looked on in anguished impotence as the rebels were extinguished . |
| 7 | He looks down on hi life . |
| 8 | When recruiting , the Profitboss looks only for potential profit contribution , for profit-seeking attitudes and ability . |
| 9 | THIS LOGO 'S SEXIST RACIST AND LOOKS JUST LIKE TWO FINGERS ! |
| 10 | The United States would probably have reverted to isolationism as happened after the First World War ; Congress would have cut back Defence spending , starving the US defence/industrial base ; and American big business would have looked elsewhere for profitable enterprises . |
| 11 | I am not surprised that the Minister looks away with some embarrassment . |
| 12 | Six minutes into the second half , Tranmere , always alert and certainly never overawed , equalised through a shot from their central defender Vickers who , viewed from the stand , looked offside by several yards . |
| 13 | However , if , after casting on , you rearrange the needles on the ribber bed to a 1×1 , then you can use four-ply with the benefit of ‘ no floats ’ and a fabric that looks more like single bed Fair Isle . |
| 14 | There has , however , been very little research which looks directly at this issue and thus at this stage suggestions about the normal levels of memory performance or about the variables which may influence it remain largely speculative . |
| 15 | He does appear to have looked carefully at various places , and in 1800 he settled in Ambleside . |
| 16 | Now , Guinness PLC company secretary explains : ‘ We have looked carefully at this question recently . |
| 17 | A 97 year old woman looks back to pre-First World War Vienna and an extraordinary life , even if a fair amount of it is fabricated . |
| 18 | In spite of her misadventure , Diana looks back on that trip to Val Claret as one of the most enjoyable and carefree holidays of her life . |
| 19 | Diana now looks back on those days at Coleherne Court as the happiest time of her life . |
| 20 | MARY BAILEY looks back on seven years as the cichlid-keeper 's agony aunt . |
| 21 | Twenty-four hours since she had last looked out on that scene , watched the same blue curtains stir in the draught through the ill-fitting window-frame . |
| 22 | The garden is pretty and looks out onto six acres of fields and a copse , and contains a tennis court which guests are welcome to use . |
| 23 | He follows a hill-track on his journey home , and looks out with startled pleasure when the coastal plain emerges below him . |
| 24 | He numbers among his close friends Patrick Hourcade of French Vogue , who looks out for fine furniture for him . |
| 25 | It looks out across wide lawns to mild uneventful Northamptonshire countryside , and the private road which runs in front of it winds down into Hulcote , a beauti — ful horseshoe-shaped model village built around a generous green . |
| 26 | Oulton 's paintings may serve as a reminder that each looks out from different eyes with one 's own conception of what is real , thus the artist leads us to question the truth of our own vision . |
| 27 | Your mother looks well on these photographs though . |
| 28 | I am glad that my own children are beyond primary age and will not have to suffer from the effects of this campaign , which looks increasingly like political dogma forced into the classroom . |
| 29 | He only liked large men around him and must have looked askance at small Welshmen like T. E. Thomas and G. D. Morgan . |
| 30 | Having looked briefly at some features of particular NBFIs in section 4.1 , we want now to reflect on the extent to which they fulfil some of those functions which we said in section 2.3 a financial system is expected to fulfil . |