Example sentences of "the [noun] look the " in BNC.

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1 She was now looking round at both their houses distastefully , though the houses looked the same as usual , snow on the roofs , snow a foot deep over the yards , snow poised on every twig and leaf , a cloud from the central-heating chimney hovering calmly over each residence .
2 We believe it only on grounds of modesty : it would be most remarkable if the universe looked the same in every direction around us , but not around other points in the universe !
3 The assumption that the universe looks the same in every direction is clearly not true in reality .
4 Now at first sight , all this evidence that the universe looks the same whichever direction we look in might seem to suggest there is something special about our place in the universe .
5 So we may , if we wish , use the weak anthropic principle to explain why the universe looks the way it does now .
6 When the dealer arrived at the Gallery , he was escorted to Dr Bock 's office , where the director looked the picture over carefully .
7 The room looked the same .
8 The guests looked the other way and talked more loudly .
9 Only if one turns it round a complete revolution ( 360 degrees ) does the particle look the same .
10 All the corridors looked the same and he felt thoroughly confused by his new surroundings .
11 They , they they the people look the same as
12 The teachers looked the same as the pupils and everyone was equal , ha , ha , though I made a fool of myself by calling the male teachers sir and females miss .
13 In value-for-money terms , the Sega looks the best buy among the games machines , the Commodore 64 for a tape-based home micro , and then either the Atari ST or Amiga A500 — both disc-based systems — depending on specific needs and disposable income .
14 As NASA 's recently launched Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) confirmed , the background looks the same all over the sky , which implies that the cooling fireball which produced it was not given to clumpiness .
15 The latter part of the year looks the most promising , so remain calm earlier .
16 This approach to the problem looks the more promising of the two , but it prompts an absolutely central question : what is the status of Althusser 's claims about the relation between individuals and structured totalities ?
17 If , however , the bird looked the other way , death was inevitable .
18 The house looked the same , Sara thought , standing for a moment outside the gate and looking up at it .
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