Example sentences of "that it look [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 2 | They made the bed up , so that it looked ordinary . |
| 3 | Her iron hand was even harder on the pastry , and affected its colour as well so that it looked dark and oppressed . |
| 4 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 5 | One of its virtues was that it looked temporary : these may be abnormal times , it seemed to proclaim , but one day terrorism will be beaten , and once again doting parents will be able to photograph ambitious children on the steps of No. 10 . |
| 6 | In vain did her mother insist that the material was expensive , and that anyone , looking at it , would know that it was expensive , for Clara knew in her heart of hearts that it looked cheap . |
| 7 | Lucy thought that it looked fine . |
| 8 | The top was also a little long , but not so that it looked foolish . |
| 9 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 10 | It was all necessary , no doubt , but with all the optimism of his youth he could n't see that it looked promising . |
| 11 | Baron of Buchlyvie was brought into the ring and everyone agreed that it looked magnificent . |
| 12 | That 's worse that it looks terrible that |
| 13 | When it gets too dangerous it will be a matter of simulating what 's supposed to happen so that it looks real to the TV audience , but not to those involved . |
| 14 | Made from Scandinavian Redwood which has a distinctive warmth and grain , the Ducal range is made to very high standards which means that it looks good , works well and is designed to last . |
| 15 | no they just like , think that it looks good because they are being seen to go to church |
| 16 | Indeed , the pineal of a New Zealand reptile known as the tuatara is pigmented and so close to the surface that it looks similar to a real eye . |
| 17 | That 's up is that it looks that way . |
| 18 | though that it looks such a flimsy structure , that you know its gon na be shored up with walls . |
| 19 | One can ask : does he mean that the horizontal moon , perhaps owing to some magnifying effect of the earth 's atmosphere , actually presents a larger appearance than the meridian moon , or does he mean merely that it looks bigger , perhaps because it is seen in a context of trees and houses ? |
| 20 | One does not say of a cornflower that it looks blue — unless , of course , one wants to exhibit one 's sophistication in the matter of colours being ‘ secondary qualities ’ . |
| 21 | That one does not say of a cornflower that it looks blue is a linguistic point , not a psychological one . |
| 22 | The fact that we may have no reason to say of someone looking at a blue flower that it looks blue to him does not mean that it does not look blue to him . |
| 23 | If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake . |
| 24 | I get her head and you know Beetlejuice when he goes I got ta show you it cos sometimes she 's , she 's not alert and when she 's like that it looks wicked cos he goes and her ears are like that she goes and I get her to play the banjo and she goes it 's wicked ! |
| 25 | He says that it looks different . |
| 26 | Bran cereals and muesli are rather more weighty , so here people tend to serve out more than an ounce just so that it looks sufficient . |