Example sentences of "looks [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He looks through the little hammock in front of him .
2 Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ?
3 If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader :
4 It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them .
5 It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all .
6 Keener looks for the right sound rather than dictating where microphones should be .
7 Just as PageMaker provides almost infinite control over each element of each page so Ventura looks after the complete document .
8 The borough council already looks after the eastern end of the ruined priory which was the first Augustinian monastery .
9 With one assistant , she looks after the legal work for the whole of the company , undertakes the company secretarial work and attends Board meetings .
10 MMT has two main lines of business : developing , implementing and supporting custom applications ; and software facilities management , where it looks after the day-to-day operation of a customer 's software .
11 This looks after the day-to-day running of the Campaign , leaving the executive to consider major policy initiatives .
12 A small full-time staff based in St Albans looks after the day-to-day administration and finances of the Campaign and produced a monthly newspaper , What 's Brewing , and the annual Good Beer Guide .
13 ‘ Fate looks after the Indian Empire , ’
14 Typically , for Eliot , this hope for the future , following the French anthropologists ' piece , looks towards the distant past .
15 It is flanked by a group of handsome Victorian residences and looks towards the new Phase I building which provides studios , laboratories and workshops for the faculties of Art and Design , Science and Technology and the Faculty of Informatics .
16 It is flanked by a group of handsome Victorian residences and looks towards the new Phase I building which provides studios , laboratories and workshops for the faculties of Art and Design , Science and Technology and Informatics .
17 Our house is on a small hill which looks towards the large hill , Monte Regia .
18 Launched in September with no publicity , one of the worst time slots imaginable — one or four o'clock on a Sunday morning ( depending on which TV region you 're in ) — and what looks like the lowest budget in TV , it nevertheless achieved a ratings increase from 300,000 to 1.6 million in it 's first four months and , according to Granada TV insiders , it 's guaranteed to run ’ almost indefinitely ’ .
19 Anyway that looks like the only tribute problem for this financial year is n't it ?
20 It 's all a load of bull shit basically , it seems , it seems that the para 's were certainly under fire , with nobody knows and erm , it does , the only thing that is blatantly clear , all these lying transferred by the para 's and they were like dragging them away and stuff and the only , there 's only one member that 's had any thing to do with the I R A that they can find out about , that 's one so at least nine were n't firing definitely , erm , three may of done or may not of done so it looks like the only thing that basic the same is looks like at least nine were innocent , you know its all right for
21 looks like the REAL THING
22 The obscure Boso , an alumnus of the monastic school at Regensburg , looks like the perfect exemplar of everything for which Alcuin had argued .
23 At first glance it also looks like the perfect market of classic economic theory , where all potential buyers and sellers are simultaneously in touch with each other and able to agree the most acceptable price to meet their requirements .
24 RANGER & LOEW 'S embossed stainless steel art deco cigarette case looks like the authentic article — but it 's even better because your king-size cigarettes will fit neatly in — which they would n't have done in an original case .
25 ‘ It looks like the other side of the road to me , ’ murmured Bill Waddy .
26 We may feel today that things might have been better planned , and that it is a great pity that what now looks like the decisive contribution of England to world history should have been carried through with so much muddle and mess .
27 A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … .
28 A major feature is that real space time is Riemannian , that is to say it is curved yet locally looks like the flat space time of special relativity much as a portion of a spherical surface of linear extent much smaller than the radius looks flat .
29 One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech .
30 And you know , the surface is not all i , you look out on the sea , and it looks like the proverbial mill pond , it 's calm , it 's barely a ripple of water but it 's not still .
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