Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] look [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Although you look like a child , you are not really a child at all because your mind and your powers of reasoning seem to be fully grown-up .
2 I just want a big comfortable feel , so you look at a sofa and want to curl up in it . ’
3 For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle .
4 Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine .
5 If you look through a family history and hit upon an advantageous marriage , the chances are that you will find a new house or a completely restored one at around the same date .
6 You should , you should ge , if you look on a map you can , you can judge where
7 If you look at a dissection of the human arm you can see that the string-like tendons which attach to the fingers are joined further back in the arm , to the muscles .
8 If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving .
9 If you look at a bar code it will normally be accompanied by a long number ( usually eight or thirteen digits long ) .
10 But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ !
11 Jones said : ‘ If you look at a war , there was always the lad who carried the flag , or the emblem of a country .
12 The Club Eighteen Thirty idea is much along similar lines , and if you look at a Club Eighteen Thirty brochure , the sort of activities people do together , bringing people together .
13 If you look at a baby they 're totally out of proportion and they have huge heads do n't they ?
14 15 If you look at a tree and turn through 300° as shown , how much more do you have to turn to face the tree again ?
15 If you look at a pie chart of how public money is spent in this country , it 's difficult to find the slice that is the arts .
16 If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies .
17 If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices
18 Because if you look at a problem , and you read through , have someone to work it out you say yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah , and that 's yeah obvious .
19 Erm if you look at a river that 's working run running quickly down from the mountains
20 But if you , if you look at a B two it makes sense , I mean I 've looked at B two 's and I have n't really understood what the one 's two 's and three's are for but now it makes sense to me so people who are B two makes more sense to them to know what
21 This does n't come automatically to a dyslexic person very often , and we also look at letters from left to right , but if you look at a u and then turn it upside down in your mind , you have an n , or h and y can be reversed to turn into each other , if you like , in the same way .
22 The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon .
23 If you look at a department like the Director and Engineers department , every letter in fact has underneath it the City Engineer , even if its signed by somebody else .
24 If you look at an American kit for say , £10,000 to £14,000 , which then requires in excess of 500 hours of sweat equity , the Chevron does n't look bad value after all .
25 And if you look at an insect walking , that 's exactly what it does .
26 If you look like a gringo ( a foreigner , usually blond ) then it 'll be a lot more expensive , because you have more money , ’ she explains simply .
27 Amongst the great majority , the faith of earlier centuries persisted , at least outwardly ; indeed , if we look for a movement of thought and feeling that by the end of the century had penetrated into every class of society except the highest , we shall find it in the revival of ‘ vital religion ’ , or ‘ enthusiasm ’ , as it was also called .
28 On the other hand , if we look at a later decision-making episode in the same project when the pupils are temporarily in role as Indians who have to decide whether or not to receive a white stranger into their midst ( p. 53 ) , this is more likely to have been played seriously as a real game for by then the children , after several lessons on the same project , were steeped in the material sufficiently deeply to respect the rich complexity of the problem .
29 If we look at a random list of typical game structures we shall find that they reflect some of life 's common interactions and are obviously just as important in drama .
30 If we look at a typical Midland deserted village site with the aid of air photographs and maps , we can see that it is made up of certain features which occur again and again on such sites , the most distinctive being the sunken holloways marking the courses of old roads and paths .
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