Example sentences of "looks [adv] like the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
| 2 | 12 LOOKS JUST LIKE THE REAL THING |
| 3 | The model , of course , looks just like the young Audrey Hepburn . |
| 4 | It looks exactly like the existing version but has a wider magnetic tape . |
| 5 | On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is the slender , wheat-coloured , lyre-horned Froment du Léon , which looks very like the old dun Shetland cows of the early twentieth century and almost identical to the modern Guernsey in conformation but not in horn . |
| 8 | It is all the more striking a testimony to the power of natural selection , therefore , that numerous examples can be found in real nature , in which independent lines of evolution appear to have converged , from very different starting points , on what looks very like the same endpoint . |