Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Stir until all ingredients are amalgamated and the whole mixture looks rather like thick honey , with about the same consistency . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He looks down on hi life . |
| 7 | When recruiting , the Profitboss looks only for potential profit contribution , for profit-seeking attitudes and ability . |
| 8 | I am not surprised that the Minister looks away with some embarrassment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now , Guinness PLC company secretary explains : ‘ We have looked carefully at this question recently . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He follows a hill-track on his journey home , and looks out with startled pleasure when the coastal plain emerges below him . |
| 16 | He numbers among his close friends Patrick Hourcade of French Vogue , who looks out for fine furniture for him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She looks round in mock horror . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Strachan views the water vole as an indicator of wetland habitat quality , and he looks forward with little optimism . |
| 20 | In his diaries he looks forward to future success , but it was his artistic success that he sought before financial security . |
| 21 | Or preferable , to be honest ; part of me rather looked forward to such taunting . |
| 22 | Fabia was shaken , but was more intent then on finding out what she could do to help whatever the trouble was , than concerned that it looked as though she could say goodbye to her much looked forward to Czechoslovakian holiday . |
| 23 | I 've never looked forward to new stuff from any band as much as I do from the Mondays . |
| 24 | He used to run ceilidhs in Toonagh — that 's a village near where my parents come from — every Friday night and we used to all go over there — ‘ t was the thing we most looked forward to all week . ’ |
| 25 | Looked forward to this day for so long , I have . |
| 26 | At these moments he looks closely at each inch of her face , like a valuer frowningly examining some precious object . |
| 27 | It is a type of formative assessment , insofar as it looks ahead to future learning activities , but differs in that it usually involves the use of more specific procedures or protocols . |
| 28 | Curran 's arrival brings the number of new signings at Scarborough this week to five as boss Ray McHale looks ahead to next season . |
| 29 | The confidential world of the city clerk persists in Eliot 's poorest play which looks again to Victorian melodrama . |
| 30 | The liquid looks very like human blood and was poured at night on to the fields . |