Example sentences of "look [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Barclays looks for new chief outside |
| 3 | DAMON LOOKS FOR DRY RUN HOME IN CANADA |
| 4 | China looks for overseas backing for CFC plans |
| 5 | The software also includes ViruSTOP which looks for virus-like behaviour . |
| 6 | At least the knights had not been party to the massacre ; they had achieved their task and now looked for suitable reward . |
| 7 | Whatever she could look for in the future must be looked for outside marriage . |
| 8 | Vico had looked for historical fact in the poetic metaphors of myth and legend ; this piecing together was his ‘ new science ’ . |
| 9 | 9.55 : Looked for Social Worker 's copy of Directory of Charities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The meat , which looks like dark veal , is imported by the hotel from France . |
| 12 | This looks like split pea soup ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ This looks like split pea soup ! ’ |
| 14 | No details are given of this hitherto unknown organisation , but the platform put forward by the paper looks like pure Thatcherism . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He looks like lost property now . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Coriander looks like flat leaf parsley , but when bought in bunches usually has some of the root attached . |
| 19 | It not only looks like political bribery — it probably is . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In its full-page and horrendously expensive advertisements in the national press , and now ( the latest manifestation ) in a booklet with a cover that at only a few metres distance looks like gold-tooled morocco , it comes perilously close to transgressing those rules of the Advertising Standards Authority that ensure that all ads are honest , fair , accurate , unimpeachable and altogether above reproach . |
| 23 | Mad Eric has personalised his scum top by wearing the collar standing up and ironing down the front corners to make it look like a cravat — he now looks like Victorian Dad out of Viz. Berk . |
| 24 | Now the peasants are bent over what looks like bare earth |
| 25 | Above : Inspired by the traditional floors of country houses across Europe , the Charlecote Rosewood design from Amtico looks like real parquet , and will add a touch of class to a study or living room , but will not cost the earth |
| 26 | Alternatively , you might like to choose a bath made from vitreous-enamelled , pressed steel , which looks like cast iron , but is n't so heavy , and is much cheaper . |
| 27 | We climb through a hole in a hedge that looks like grounded tumbleweed . |
| 28 | When you pour it out it looks like ginger beer . |
| 29 | And it 's it looks like ginger beer . |
| 30 | Once in , the pain subsiding , they very deliberately move around so that the two lines are elsewhere — and what you are reading now looks like basic Sanskrit . |