Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be noted , however , that already with Schumpeter we have moved away from models based on the distinctiveness of the elite characteristic as an explanatory factor , to a lower-level operation which explicitly refers to realistic definitions rather than to explanations , and in which the model , such as it is , looks remarkably like a composite description of liberal democracy . |
| 2 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 3 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 4 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
| 5 | The trap looks rather like an open-ended small plastic cloche , and hangs in the tree . |
| 6 | The built-in wooden dresser was already there , as was the exposed brick chimney breast — which , with the cooker slotted into the fireplace , looks rather like an old-fashioned kitchen range . |
| 7 | If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in . |
| 8 | I 'm now looked on as a one parent family . |
| 9 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 10 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
| 11 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 12 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 13 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |
| 14 | Since a primitive ankylosaur looks somewhat like a primitive stegosaur , it has been suggested that the two sub-orders were really one which split apart later on in the evolutionary story . |
| 15 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
| 16 | The ‘ hybrid ’ looks less like a controlled experiment than a hasty effort to balance political opposites . |
| 17 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 18 | The archway looks much like a giant length of intestine . |
| 19 | One calls it a console and it looks much like an awful cocktail cabinet . |
| 20 | City came under some pressure from Tring , but the home side never looked down to a sub front . |
| 21 | US Cup press officer Jim Trecker says : ‘ If you did n't know the story , you would n't think it was anything out of the ordinary , it looks just like a plain grass field . |
| 22 | Not all materials are suitable for both modern and period treatments — for example , a dark velvet usually looks best in an antique-style frame , whereas a pale pink silk or cotton can be an attractive choice for a more modern setting . |
| 23 | The compact disc looks physically like a smaller version of the videodisc . |
| 24 | But since being clad , it has looked just like a 19th-century bridge . ’ |
| 25 | The poet tells us that ‘ This race it looks not like an earthly race ’ , but it is not made clear what kind of chase we are witnessing . |
| 26 | Sherman and Buzzie B. climb into a totally white BMW which looks more like a modern bathroom cabinet than a car . |
| 27 | Barebow , which does not have the aiming and balancing mechanisms found on modern compound bows , looks more like a traditional bow — but Claudio says that that is as far as the connection with Robin Hood or William Tell goes . |
| 28 | Dermot , you see , is an Elvis fan , and given the right stimulants , has been known to think he looks like Presley ( although , as one bemused clubber from Leeds commented , ‘ He looks more like a young Max Bygraves ’ ) . |
| 29 | An ex-workmate of Webster 's in a Yorkshire chocolate factory , Simmons looks more like a sober bank clerk with his tinges of grey and quiet manners . |
| 30 | They fly through the air with extraordinary ease and in flight they are very distinctive — they have very long white wings with black tips and the tail looks more like a pointed piece of feather than a proper tail . |