Example sentences of "look and [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Called Touchbank , the system looks and operates like an automatic telling machine with a menu listing household and travel insurance policies on a screen upon the insertion of a Connect , Barclaybank or BarclayPlus card held by 6m customers . |
| 2 | ‘ It means that the introduction of any new technology is a seamless process : the training machine looks and operates in a familiar way . |
| 3 | Indeed it was runner-up in the European Car of the Year Award , which is only right because it looks and feels like a European car . |
| 4 | When the polyps are retracted the polypary looks and feels like a piece of wet leather , hence the common name for these animals . |
| 5 | The pen , which is cordless and has no batteries , looks and feels like an ordinary pen . |
| 6 | He looks and sounds like a man who feels he can beat anyone in Ireland these days . |
| 7 | The body looks and behaves like a pretty impressive agent in its own right . |
| 8 | This is why — it is just another way of expressing the message of earlier chapters — the bee colony looks and behaves like a truly integrated single vehicle . |
| 9 | The ballroom is scattered with cheap wooden chairs , tables , rolls of ancient , mouldy-smelling carpets , a couple of old motorbikes and lots of bits of motorbikes standing or lying on oil-stained sheets , and what looks and smells like an industrial-standard deep-fat frier with the associated hoods , filters , fan housing and ducting . |
| 10 | ‘ She looks and moves like a winner . ’ |
| 11 | It looks and performs like a pro unit , and even allowing for its reliance on unbalanced connections ( avoid long cables ! ) it 's an all-rounder which amply suits any home or semi-pro studio . |