Example sentences of "does not look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly ten years after Belsey 's book appeared , there has been no revolution in the first sense , and it does not look as if there will be . |
| 2 | It does not look as if such story-telling was a typical element in ordinary family culture . |
| 3 | Mrs Wren says that the young person does not look as an ambassador 's niece should … ’ |
| 4 | What it most certainly is not , is ownership by national or local public authority : and because it does not look to the Government as its banker and so imposes no liability on the public sector borrowing requirement , it provides no levers for a hypothetical State economic planning agency to handle . |
| 5 | It cost £2.5 billion and we got back £2 billion , which means that it cost us £500 million , which does not look to me like a profit . |
| 6 | I hope that God does not look at life in quite that way . |
| 7 | Thomas Knowlton ( 1691–1781 ) , a gardener employed first by William Sherard and then by the Earl of Burlington , wrote to Samuel Brewer in 1741 , ‘ as to Miller he does not look at poor men , only a lord or a duke is company for him ’ . |
| 8 | But it does not look at them systematically . |
| 9 | The veneer treatment of the keywell of the V&A harpsichord does not look at all like Mercier 's painting , but from the multitude of Hitchcock spinets we know that he was not averse to the use of sycamore in this area , which , when it is varnished over , darkens to that golden hue that the painter has reproduced so faithfully . |
| 10 | He does not look at society from afar , through the wrong end of a telescope , as is the usual practice of professional historians . |
| 11 | ‘ This has been quite a shock — for both of us — and Jenna does not look at all well . ’ |
| 12 | The need for reality is satisfied in that Septimus Quinn , for all his impetuosity , does not look upon war as fun , nor does he abdicate his responsibility for the men whom , from time to time , he is called upon to lead . |
| 13 | ‘ At the end of the day , if a shop , garage or hotel does not look after its customers , they might not complain , but they may not come back . ’ |
| 14 | Sir Anthony Meyer does not look like the challenger , although this is a furtive world , where the unexpected might occur . |
| 15 | Dr Tyrell stressed that the results do not mean that a similar vaccine can be made for HIV ‘ but at least the road now does not look like a dead end ’ . |
| 16 | Whereas Mr Orlando has long been a troublesome hero for his party , Mr Segni does not look like a troublemaker . |
| 17 | Mr Major does not look like a prime minister with a secret agenda up his sleeve . |
| 18 | After all , if we look at the inheritance of many genetic characters such as human height or skin-colouring , it does not look like the work of indivisible and unblendable genes . |
| 19 | If the trouble has started and does not look like stopping , the best solution is to provide an immaculately clean tray of fresh litter , place it in a quiet corner , and then shut the animal up in that particular room , releasing it only when it has used the tray in the approved manner . |
| 20 | Attlee was ecstatic about the idea of his viceroy staying on , perceiving it as ‘ a great boost for Britain and for the Commonwealth ’ , a sentiment shared by the now fully evolved Commonwealth statesman — he had been perhaps the first to see the possibilities of the role — General Smuts : ‘ This does not look like quitting ’ , he cabled to Attlee on hearing the news . |
| 21 | But America does not look like a disorganised company most of whose workers do not have a boss ; or at least it did not the last time it deserved worldwide respect . |
| 22 | The suite of small rooms which constitutes NISW 's embryonic International Centre does not look like a command station for the international social work jet set . |
| 23 | ‘ He does not look like a man , ’ he maintained stubbornly . |
| 24 | ‘ This one does not look like a dog , ’ Mandru said . |
| 25 | Mr Heathcliff certainly does not look like a farmer . |
| 26 | OK — im small and dark and somewhat ‘ chubby ’ ( at the moment — too manuy pints lately … ) . does not look like a viking at all — more some kind of far east/portugese bloke — ill be wearing red puma states and probably black levis — if i see leeds-stuff inside i guess i will be unfolding my leeds ‘ smiley ’ shirt … jacket — du n no — how is the weather over there ? |
| 27 | Sharpe has been down with a calf strain this week but he trained yesterday and does not look in danger . |
| 28 | ‘ Because it does n't look at the object of music . |
| 29 | ‘ She does n't look at all pregnant , ’ said Sukey . |
| 30 | He does n't have to steer at all ; he does n't look at his compass ; he need not even run his engines : his vessel is quite literally pulled out of one ocean and into the other by a sextet of electrically-powered ( and Japanese-made ) trains called ‘ mules ’ which run on American cast-iron rails beside the lock-gates of the Canal : all the captain has to do is stand on the bridge and watch , listen to the genial Yankee twang of his assigned American pilot and experience a transport of delight . |