Example sentences of "look like " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monday 8.55am — I arrive at the office for what looks like a quiet day catching up on necessary office work and telephoning some of our low-dependency clients to see how they are . |
| 2 | At the moment it looks like my usual stint of ironing on Thursday and shopping on Friday are the main fixtures , but anything can happen before then . |
| 3 | It looks like an enlargement of the postcard which , in an age of mechanical reproduction , it was to become , commemorating the tourist attraction which it was also to become . |
| 4 | There are no character notes of any kind in the text , which is written as a complex rhyming scheme that looks like prose at first glance . |
| 5 | This thing here , which looks like a wooden club , is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung , like a dance floor . |
| 6 | What looks like a dead end may only be the result of personal weakness . |
| 7 | It looks like mine , he said , examining it , but there 's no label on it . |
| 8 | Her ale , if new , looks like a misty morning , all thick . ’ |
| 9 | It looks like magnesium deficiency , which is very common on sandy and light soils , where the nutrient is quickly leached away . |
| 10 | He looks like a man who should be heavier than he is , and one soon realises that an iron discipline keeps it that way . |
| 11 | That old woman looks like a witch . |
| 12 | Looks like Lou Grant . ’ |
| 13 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 14 | When they were asked what the ( say ) ‘ egg ’ was ‘ really , really ’ the three-year-olds answered correctly that it was a stone , but when asked what the object ‘ looks like to your eyes ’ they also said ‘ stone ’ . |
| 15 | What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera . |
| 16 | It 's a good enough excuse that you need to check for gaffs , but the real reason for dry-assembly is to see what this hitherto fictitious table looks like . |
| 17 | Raskolnikov knows ( but leaves us to infer ) that his present state of mind renders chatter on the stairs intolerable , which looks like fear of his landlady but ‘ really ’ is n't . |
| 18 | And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too . |
| 19 | Isolated , that looks like straightforward double focus : the first-person narrator inside the chronicle box , unaware of his provincial limitations ; and Dostoevsky outside it . |
| 20 | Admittedly , conditions in the American academy are a little tighter than they once were , but what looks like stringency by American standards is still lavishness by British ones . |
| 21 | And in any case , Marxism looks like a declining force . |
| 22 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 23 | It still looks like a foot , but a very nice foot really . |
| 24 | ‘ There you are — you 'd better have one to remind you what a foetus looks like at 12 weeks , ’ an enthusiastic PR said . |
| 25 | Now it looks like a scene set from Beau Geste , or one of those biblical epics . |
| 26 | ‘ It looks like a short-term reaction to a short-term situation , partially sparked off by the ridiculous reaction to the August trade figures , ’ Sir Trevor added . |
| 27 | As a result of this , certain big Renoir prints are expensive — over £20,000 for the kind of lithograph which looks like a chalk drawing . |
| 28 | It looks like a scene set from Beau Geste or one of those biblical epics . |
| 29 | And just because it looks like a wild boar with the striped marking or ‘ agouti ’ ( long snout , straight tail and small pointy ears ) , can it be accepted as such without a genetic test ? |
| 30 | Out of water , Krystom Multistrand looks like a length of string . |