Example sentences of "[adj] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now what have got there , that looks as if |
| 2 | A British commentator , for example , writing in 1768 when her reputation as an enlightened ruler was at its height , thought that ‘ there is a sort of whim or affectation of singularity , in the manner of conferring her favours , that looks as if the desire of being spoken of , fully as much as the desire of doing good , was the fountain from which they flow ’ . |
| 3 | Oh , Stour , the river Stour , yeah , eh , erm , that looks as if he 's that looks as if is |
| 4 | That looks as if it 's the thermostat setting . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Isolated , that looks like straightforward double focus : the first-person narrator inside the chronicle box , unaware of his provincial limitations ; and Dostoevsky outside it . |
| 7 | I look for one starting with a ‘ B ’ cos I know what that looks like . |
| 8 | That looks like Julius Caesar again . |
| 9 | That looks like Otley standing behind the teacakes . |
| 10 | ‘ That looks like Jeremiah Scrape , ’ Otley said . |
| 11 | That looks like the future to me . ’ |
| 12 | To some , that looks like an act of wilful provocation . |
| 13 | ‘ That looks like fun , ’ Anabelle thought to herself . |
| 14 | That looks like a young man 's demagogy ( cp . |
| 15 | And that to me looks like hatred , that looks like trying to destroy femininity , something that is beautiful . |
| 16 | That looks like Dr . |
| 17 | So erm mark your axes , work out what your scale is going to be , to fit it all on , I mean that that looks like a nice fit . |
| 18 | For that looks like a situation in which research and higher education are one and the same process . |
| 19 | Surely they did n't lose both : as Lady Bracknell might have said , that looks like carelessness . |
| 20 | Mm , that looks like an innocent little er |
| 21 | That looks like a face or something — a beak — it 's a face anyway ’ . |
| 22 | That looks like a bit of a balancing feat right enough . |
| 23 | ‘ That looks like the answer , ’ commented Iris as Melissa pulled up . |
| 24 | So if , if I say draw erm Y equals the square root of X , and you think I have n't got a clue what that looks like . |
| 25 | Right , that looks like the hundred , that 's the sort of left over of the hundred , so it 's just equal to seventy five over a hundred , and you |
| 26 | And that looks like — |
| 27 | But even that looks like being a non starter . |
| 28 | That looks like a paddle |
| 29 | That looks like a moustache ! |
| 30 | That looks like lettuce . |