Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the short-term picture looks grim , the longer-term one looks positively bleak . |
| 2 | The junior competition looks set for new champion Andrew Martin ( Prescot Eagle-Atlas ) , whose title win shot him up to 17 points . |
| 3 | A French medic was climbing the grassy bank from the sunken road to look at the Officer as I got the prisoners out of the dug-out and back to their previous positions in the hollow . |
| 4 | With its grey plumage , barred underside and hawk-like shape and silhouette , the European cuckoo looks deceptively like the predatory sparrowhawk — the two are often confused . |
| 5 | It was important that government and the European Commission looked beyond the narrow confines of the current legalistic approach and took full account of the practical consequences of this onslaught on the system which has served the Community and world trade so well for more than a century , he said . |
| 6 | The friendly policeman looked him in the eye . |
| 7 | Her thinking grabbed her and she raced down to the beach , and followed the rocky shoreline looking for signs of him , but saw nothing . |
| 8 | The tall man looked so bereft at the loss of his luggage , his inability to recall where he was supposed to be staying ; she watched a lot of movies and thought he looked a bit like that gentleman who was always asking people to make his day , but he talked like the man with the funny bird-feather in his hat from ‘ Dallas ’ . |
| 9 | The television was going hiss and the tall boy looked at his watch . |
| 10 | The tall sheriff looked round the assembled faces in the crowded office and cleared his throat . |
| 11 | No the that kid looks evil . |
| 12 | Since the political division of Spain corresponded closely to that of contemporary Europe , each of the Spanish camps looked to its European counterparts for assistance , which turned the Spanish war into an international , as well as a national , conflict . |
| 13 | The 1980 pictures looked like a stacked combination of flat images . |
| 14 | Certainly the scent I witnessed ( through binoculars ) through the left side of the arched overhangs looked like a modern classic in the making ! |
| 15 | Andy the gardener was standing around on the lower terrace looking at some white geraniums he had set out in an urn by the pool house , and although she shrank from returning to the scene of yesterday 's shame , she decided to go and rap with him . |
| 16 | The dry-stone wall on the farther side looked solid and uncompromising . |
| 17 | In all In in all fairness they 're not in my opinion , not exactly the greatest thing to look at in the country are they ? |
| 18 | The Technical Committee looks at all aspects of brewing and serving beer . |
| 19 | The oral shield is irregular in shape , the proximal edge is rounded and the distal edge may be produced and this region may be depressed ; in some specimens the oral shield looks pentagonal , again with the distal portion depressed . |
| 20 | While Oliver was eating , the strange boy looked at him from time to time with great attention . |
| 21 | ‘ We do n't even know what the bloody thing looks like , ’ Julie added . |
| 22 | Instead of going upstairs all the bloody time to look . |
| 23 | If that 's not enough , the young Scot has two other events on the professional circuit to look forward to . |
| 24 | Certain types of groups only have one way of viewing problems as the right way to look at problems you don if any of you have been in the R C P , Revolutionary Communist Party , you might find that 's a fairly similar sort of thing there 's a party line and dimensions of what constitutes it . |
| 25 | It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled . |
| 26 | She could imagine what he looked like : dark , slightly wavy hair and blue eyes , the right eyes to look out over the miles of sea all around him . |
| 27 | ‘ It is the right moment to look critically at the structure . |
| 28 | In fact the complete stack looks really impressive on a low-lit stage . |
| 29 | Newspaper reports of a " secret " meeting between Mandela , Tambo and President F. W. de Klerk on Dec. 17 caused embarrassment for the ANC , which later admitted that a meeting had taken place but described it as " a long-scheduled meeting of the working group looking into the suspension of armed actions " . |
| 30 | A surprisingly hard-hitting and sporadically fascinating modern fairy tale , but the Pakistani Godfather looks much more fun . |