Example sentences of "look more [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 2 | He was very like Hannah in his attitude and manner — very genteel — and I 've noticed that as she grows older she looks more and more like him . |
| 3 | IT looks more and more as though Euro Disney has goofed with its theme park outside Paris . |
| 4 | It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana . |
| 5 | Every time that phone rings the future of this school looks more and more shaky . |
| 6 | Matthew made his excuses , nipped to the loo , produced the goods , packaged the container and summoned a bike messenger to deliver it to the clinic — ‘ at which point , I returned to my presentation , looking more than slightly flushed . |
| 7 | When Sally got off the bus he was waiting for her , leaning against the bonnet , smoking a cigarette and looking more than ever the dashing young man-about-town . |
| 8 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 9 | I 'm looking more and more , you may wan na |
| 10 | She had spent most of the time upstairs trying to look more than OK , and had despised herself all the while for even trying . |
| 11 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 12 | As millions flocked to Butlins , to other imitators and to other holiday resorts offering the packaged experience , older alternative forms of holidaying began to look more and more peripheral within the popular cultural practices of the British people . |
| 13 | Someone suggested she touch up her lipstick , but make-up only made her look more than ever like the Spitting Image puppet of Bette Midler . |
| 14 | The House of Lords can only look more and more an anachronism . |
| 15 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 16 | They stared in fascination at the imperfect outline which did indeed look more and more like the print of a shoe the longer they gazed . |
| 17 | Or did that gold-brown mane of hair look more than usually rumpled ? |
| 18 | As spouses and relatives and friends of their age move away , or die , old people look more and more to their few surviving relatives and neighbours for affection , friendship and reassurance and can easily become very dependent on a small number of people for social contact . |
| 19 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 20 | Quigley looked more than usually Christian . |
| 21 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 22 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 23 | He looked more than ever like Don Quixote confronting the most formidable of spectral windmills ; and his tenor voice blazed from a reed to a trumpet in his indignation . |
| 24 | He looked more than ever as if stamped out of metal . |