Example sentences of "it look like " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It looks like mine , he said , examining it , but there 's no label on it . |
| 4 | It looks like magnesium deficiency , which is very common on sandy and light soils , where the nutrient is quickly leached away . |
| 5 | Now it looks like a scene set from Beau Geste , or one of those biblical epics . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | It looks like a scene set from Beau Geste or one of those biblical epics . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Despite agreement among party leaders that the elections should be held in ‘ a mild climate , ’ it looks like being a divisive contest . |
| 10 | The water level drops and then , woosh , up it all comes , first rising like a column — at this stage it looks like a vaguely blue shaggy ink cap toadstool — then blasting itself apart in a flourish of steam . |
| 11 | From afar it looks like the classical volcanic cone and it is with a mounting sense of excitement that I climb the last section of loose lava gravel and sharp , welded lava rock . |
| 12 | Another , senior designer from a German competitor ( not BMW ) stated : ‘ I like the crinkled leather on the doors ’ , but could find nothing about the exterior to praise : ‘ It 's design stagnation ; from some angles it looks like a Lincoln . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd even say it looks like a Mazda , notwithstanding Rover 214 wheel covers . |
| 14 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |
| 15 | From a distance it looks like Detroit . |
| 16 | From a distance it looks like Detroit . |
| 17 | Consider for example the proposition that the average human possesses one breast and one testicle , a grievous misapplication of statistics no doubt , but less of an affront to logic than the argument of the weather forecaster , seized on by John Allen Paulos : with a 50 per cent chance of rain on Saturday and a 50 per cent chance on Sunday , he declared , ‘ it looks like a 100 per cent chance of rain this weekend ’ . |
| 18 | I approached it as a pilgrim , though today of course it looks like any other golf club ; the members are indigenous and they are Japanese . |
| 19 | ‘ Why should terrorists care what it looks like — as long as they get their money , or whatever they 're after ? ’ |
| 20 | It looks like the beaded beauty Tumbleweed and I met at Appleby . |
| 21 | It looks like Julius Caesar . ’ |
| 22 | It looks like Russell Banks has finally made it . |
| 23 | It looks like a small cottage whose thatch has forgotten to stop , running down all four walls to ground level . |
| 24 | Pick , squeeze seeds and pulp into a container and leave , adding water if it looks like drying out . |
| 25 | ‘ It looks like it , does n't it ? ’ |
| 26 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 27 | At first it looks like name-dropping until one finds the same sort of thing in Athenaeus or Aelian . |
| 28 | The other horse may even be a young stallion , and be large and overplayful , yet the foal finds it irresistible because it looks like mother ! |
| 29 | ‘ It looks like an accident , ’ he said with a certain delicacy , ‘ but he was experienced with that knife , was young Mr Vickers , and after Angela Brickell , after Mr Goodhaven , after your little bit of trouble … |
| 30 | As I said earlier , at first sight it looks like a grey mush . |