Example sentences of "[conj] look " in BNC.

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1 Mark Saunders ( BBC Radio ) in a personal review of design requirements for RDS car radios points out that one of the problems that RDS poses for both broadcaster and receiver manufacturer is that , with the exception of obvious features such as the display of the programme service name , an RDS receiver is not apparently different in performance , or looks , when observed in the static environment of the dealer 's showroom .
2 If the vomit is bloodstained or looks like coffee grounds .
3 That works quite well with confused clients as well because they can see something that belongs to them or looks familiar to them . ’
4 A playwright will often do his best to supply this non-lexical information by telling the reader that the character shrugs , winks , or looks heavenwards as this or that phrase is uttered .
5 When they buy fittings they buy them mainly for their shape or colour or looks , but neglect to find out what sort of light they will give .
6 I want at the end erm , Chairman to give you my views of what is meant by er , an integrated and balanced community because I think that 's that 's quite important , but before I do that , I 'd like to mop up one or two er points right at the end in response to some of the contributions that have been made , and I 'll deal with them , Wincup , Curtis , Brook , er and Thomas , if that 's acceptable er to you , and really as far as Mr Wincup is concerned , he 's quite properly raised the issue of procedural issues about how the Greater York authorities is going to address moving towards er an agreed location , and quite clearly I 've got to reaffirm again that the County Council will want to look at both the greenbelt local plan report and your panel report before er it moves erm er forward or looks at any conclusions it may be moving to in the light of those er in the light of those reports , and quite clearly , as we all know , there are a number of options .
7 He does sometimes get into a ‘ delayed ’ mood where he thinks he has more time than he does … the reason for the square/back passes I reckon is noone moves into space for him or looks for it up front .
8 Less than a quarter claimed to be ( or looked ) miserable or confused .
9 Instead , the amendment simply deleted the proviso excluding cinema films from the range of publications caught by the 1959 Act , which already extended to anything ‘ containing or embodying material to be read or looked at or both , any sound record , and any film or other record of a picture or pictures ’ .
10 Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year .
11 Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures .
12 Maybe what I did was an act of complicity , or looked as if it could have been .
13 Suffices of S are equations that will be evaluated in any given case to give a packing density , followed by r to indicate bucket size , so that the correct synonym percentage can be calculated or looked up .
14 This was in front of the cameras , and I thought , ‘ You two-faced bitch ’ , because if I ever tried to talk to her she 'd either be sarcastic or looked through you , looked away or did n't want to know .
15 I have never changed a tyre or looked under a bonnet .
16 Part X and Sched 9 contain provisions to protect the welfare of young children who are in day care or looked after by child minders .
17 I hope you are well & looking forward to the sunshine .
18 In that state they became ‘ sylvan demons ’ , ‘ either falling into a deep slumber or looking around for a fight . ’
19 Sometimes one or other would roam round the room picking things up , examining them and putting them down again ; or looking with unfocused eyes at nothing at all .
20 All I wish to do here is to suggest that there are other ways of understanding or looking at extremes of penitential life which can suggest in them sources , not of neurotic repression but of freedom and self-ownership .
21 Groups of soldiers on the streets of Plzeň , lounging or looking in shop windows .
22 He prefered doing quiet things like throwing stones in the water or looking for his parents .
23 be ready to make informed guesses , and to correct themselves in the light of additional information , eg by reading ahead or looking back in the text ;
24 If Marcus was sitting on his bed or walking about the room or looking out of the window , Ludens would sit near him either on a chair or else on the floor his knees up , his back against the wall .
25 If you had asked him , I suppose that he would not have been able to give a very convincing answer as to why he was walking , or looking , or watching in such an apparently random and obsessive fashion .
26 But if you have to choose one market and you 're producing for or looking to sell to TV , then MIP-TV is probably the better place .
27 The alternatives are letter , fax , or looking for the British agent in the ads .
28 They should have flown north in March , but perhaps they were n't paying attention when the others left , maybe deep in conversation or looking the other way .
29 Now I can put both feet flat on the floor and stand up straight without slouching or bending a knee or looking strained in any way .
30 However old or ill one might be , there is something healing and comforting about stroking the soft fur of a purring cat or looking into the trusting eyes of a faithful dog .
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