Example sentences of "look [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been asked to imagine myself as I would have looked during that time , you can be sure that I would have had the beautiful gown , the ruffled frill and the bejewelled fingers of a lady . |
| 2 | Peter Scott assesses Perry Anderson 's verdict on English intellectuals ; Tony Parker on Thatcherism 's casualties ; Stephen Howe looks for new life in the unions ; Conor Gearty cross-examines a defender of the Bar ; and Geoff Dyer wades through Ted Hughes ' Shakespearean fantasy |
| 3 | Barclays looks for new chief outside |
| 4 | DAMON LOOKS FOR DRY RUN HOME IN CANADA |
| 5 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 6 | Firdaus is so stung by this that she looks for another job . |
| 7 | The male then looks for another mate and he may escort as many as five females through the nest . |
| 8 | Growth is once again the watchword as the country looks for another period of expansion in higher education . |
| 9 | China looks for overseas backing for CFC plans |
| 10 | The software also includes ViruSTOP which looks for virus-like behaviour . |
| 11 | At least the knights had not been party to the massacre ; they had achieved their task and now looked for suitable reward . |
| 12 | Whatever she could look for in the future must be looked for outside marriage . |
| 13 | We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent . |
| 14 | Vico had looked for historical fact in the poetic metaphors of myth and legend ; this piecing together was his ‘ new science ’ . |
| 15 | 9.55 : Looked for Social Worker 's copy of Directory of Charities . |
| 16 | It has two organisations , Mossad Le Aliyah Beth ( Institution of Intelligence and Special Services ) , responsible for external espionage , and Shin Beth ( the Security and Counter Espionage service ) , which looks after internal security . |
| 17 | Margaret says she looks after 35 year old Andrew 24 hours a day . |
| 18 | The , the possibility is that they just looked after one sex better than the other and there is some anec anecdotic evidence that this kind of thing occurs , which I have n't got time go to into because I 'm getting towards the end of the lecture . |
| 19 | Staff are required to speak English and the children are looked after all day . |
| 20 | The meat , which looks like dark veal , is imported by the hotel from France . |
| 21 | This looks like split pea soup ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ This looks like split pea soup ! ’ |
| 23 | No details are given of this hitherto unknown organisation , but the platform put forward by the paper looks like pure Thatcherism . |
| 24 | My usual script looks like demented knitting , but among my manuscripts I am still surprised to find poem drafts and diary entries in neat italic calligraphy , painstakingly produced with a special calligraphic pen , or ‘ disguised ’ and back-sloping hands , or the ‘ progressive ’ styles I had copied from my art students in Corsham . |
| 25 | He looks like lost property now . |
| 26 | He ca n't say for sure , but he thinks that one of the fillings looks like Continental work , using a technique that 's not widely practised in Britain . |
| 27 | Coriander looks like flat leaf parsley , but when bought in bunches usually has some of the root attached . |
| 28 | It not only looks like political bribery — it probably is . |
| 29 | So if the female does n't want it and this one clearly does n't , she just sits down and if she sits on her pseudo-penis , there 's no way the male is ever gon na get into her , but in fact this is true er in , in general terms of er if you think about it a , a female quadrupedal mammal I mean it looks like male domination , the male mounts and it looks as if she has to submit but she does n't . |
| 30 | A gentle rhythm pulses along it , the material of which it is constructed looks like membrane-covered cartilage ( and has a similar consistency ) , and slender blood vessels can be seen under the lining of membrane . |