Example sentences of "it looks [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks suspiciously like knee-jerk retributivism , spuriously ennobled by reference to the ‘ community ’ . |
| 2 | The poet tells us that ‘ This race it looks not like an earthly race ’ , but it is not made clear what kind of chase we are witnessing . |
| 3 | From a distance it looks strangely like a chimney . |
| 4 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 5 | Responding to concerns raised by Dell Computer Corp 's fiscal first quarter report ( CI No 2,176 ) , Compaq Computer Corp says it looks forward to reporting a strong second quarter : ‘ With the first signs of economic recovery in Europe and the surge in demand generated by the introductions of our powerful new 486SL-based Compaq Contura and Compaq LTE Lite notebook families in March and this month , we see a strong second quarter , ’ it said . |
| 6 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 7 | It looks forward to a greater gift in the future while stressing a real gift in the present . |
| 8 | Yes er it looks either like tiny folk or enormous ferns . |
| 9 | It looks closely at the range of policies developed by local government and in so doing assesses the relative responsibilities of various professional and political groups for their initiation and enactment . |
| 10 | It looks finally at how the material provides nourishing for the finished art or craft object . |
| 11 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 12 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
| 13 | it looks rather like a is what we use ? |
| 14 | It looks remarkably like a trumpet . |
| 15 | It is a type of formative assessment , insofar as it looks ahead to future learning activities , but differs in that it usually involves the use of more specific procedures or protocols . |
| 16 | It looks increasingly as if Moscow has no time for such trivial questions . |
| 17 | Seasoned observers of Angeleno politics can only just believe it , but it looks increasingly as if the fat-cat will win . |
| 18 | They obviously do n't mean anything to you , so it looks increasingly as if this whole business must have been a dreadful mistake . |
| 19 | If you rub it in your fingers , you 'll find that your fingers are actually stained red by the haematite dust , and it looks just as if you 've cut yourself . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , it looks just like the animal , ’ the computer said . |
| 21 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 22 | The new method of showing the information for a VAT return ( it looks just like one of the horrid things ) is more than just useful , it 's a Godsend , and once you 've got into the methodology , invoice raising and bill paying as well as stock control become very quick and easy . |
| 23 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 24 | US Cup press officer Jim Trecker says : ‘ If you did n't know the story , you would n't think it was anything out of the ordinary , it looks just like a plain grass field . |
| 25 | Dickens 's Will Fern , with first-hand knowledge of life inside one , complains of this female tendency : ‘ It looks well in a picter , I 've heerd say ; but there a n't weather in picters , and maybe ‘ t is fitter for that than for a place to live in . ’ |
| 26 | From the air it looks exactly as if someone had poured a couple of bucketsful of molten glass on to the surface , forming a puddle which slowly oozed away . |
| 27 | Now , if you see a ploughed field today , it looks exactly as if a lot of pigs have been a-hoggin' and a-rootin' on it up . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It looks exactly like a dolphin , with a flat head and smooth black skin — hence the name . ’ |
| 29 | It looks exactly like the existing version but has a wider magnetic tape . |
| 30 | It looks extraordinarily like the bristle worms that abound on the reef . |