Example sentences of "it [modal v] look [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ludens , I 'm in love , I 'm desperate with love , I 'm sunk in it , I 'm ruthless , I feel as fierce as hell about this , I could kill anyone who stands in the way , I must have both of them , and I will , all right it may look like a battlefield , but what has to be done has to be done now and like this . |
| 2 | It may look like a handful of chocolate buttons . |
| 3 | If the non-Tory intelligentsia truly wants to do more than tinker in its own backyard , it must look for a route to power that can connect Cambridge with Basildon . |
| 4 | It might look at the purpose of the rule , and imply a term which , though not amending the rule , supplemented it sufficiently to change its emphasis — perhaps by holding that it was not meant to apply after the introduction of the cash-settled contracts . |
| 5 | ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot . |
| 6 | ‘ It 'll look like an accident , ’ said Ray Shepherd . |
| 7 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 8 | She scowled at the broad back , with the T-shirt stretched taut over his muscles , and wondered how it would look with a sandwich hurled at it . |
| 9 | When this was unsuccessful it would look around the cage where there was a long stick and suddenly it would decide to use it to rake in the fruit . |
| 10 | Her hair is a really short , blunt cut but my hair is so thick that it would look like a triangle or a big hat ! |
| 11 | Some say that if you stood it up-ended on your roof it would look like a television aerial . |
| 12 | How about if we had one shared out between three people have a guess at what it would look like the fraction . |
| 13 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 14 | Did you drink it ? or Arthur drank it will look for the referent of it among liquids . |
| 15 | It will look at the part played by pressure groups in the system , and it will examine the case that has been made for regarding democracy as significantly undermined by ‘ political elites ’ . |
| 16 | When the court comes to assess damages for an injury , however , it will look at the position as it is at the date of the trial . |
| 17 | ‘ It will look at the way the assessment process is working , and that would certainly uncover if there are wide variations in the eligibility criteria being used by different authorities ’ . |
| 18 | In particular it will look at the work experiences of these workers , their occupational backgrounds and skill levels . |
| 19 | It will look at the entirety of the obligations undertaken by the firm and determine the nature of the relationship from the whole contract construed in the light of its commercial context rather than from a few words in the contract . |
| 20 | Using survey and field observation methods , it will look at the role played by professionals in the provision of social support to families who are socially disadvantaged and will also consider the relationship between different types of social support and the ability of families to cope with personal difficulties . |
| 21 | She said the SSI has said it will look into the matter . |