Example sentences of "to look as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the public humiliation of being dropped from the side ; the autocratic style of managers , who were themselves as afraid and insecure as their players ; the refusal to let good players use their natural talent to play , forcing them through repetitive training ‘ systems ’ and naïve ‘ game plans ’ ; the petty jealousies of the players , their hierarchies , and childish pranks ; the fear of the new signing , who has to be included at the expense of an old friend ; the view of a match from ‘ the inside ’ when you know a team-mate does not want the ball but wants it to look as if you will not give it to him . |
| 2 | Alfonzo ( inset ) reaches new heights of ursine designer chic : he wears a Cossack tunic and trousers to emphasise his Russian heredity , and his bright-red mohair fur is distressed to look as if generations of Grand Dukes have hugged him . |
| 3 | But Patsy and Tim wanted a few simple cupboards painted white , made to look as if they 'd always been there . |
| 4 | I 'm trying hard to look as if I 've got decorum . |
| 5 | Alongside the German economic miracle and the U.S. trading surplus with the world , it began to look as if Britain was the new Sick Man of Europe . |
| 6 | Not that I want to look as if I shop at Next , or look cute , or anything , it 's just that I ca n't afford to dress the way I 'd like to . |
| 7 | She learned to keep her face absolutely still , not to smile , and to look as if , on the brink of completing a bargain , she was going to walk away in disgust . |
| 8 | There is , however , one famous case in which it is beginning to look as if the molecular estimate is better than one based on fossils . |
| 9 | The medieval oak furniture , dark and glowing , was said by Mr Hulsby to look as if it were nourished on stout . |
| 10 | It began to look as if a wee riot might be in order . |
| 11 | It begins to look as if the graptoloids could have been free-floating animals , of a kind without any living counterpart . |
| 12 | It was about how to deal with a road accident and I arranged for a smashed-up car to be towed into the studio , and for actors to sprawl around , made-up to look as if they had appalling injuries . |
| 13 | And not expecting everything to look as if it 's been lifted straight from the page of a glossy foodie magazine . ’ |
| 14 | Or he was coping with his daughter as she roamed the now deserted house , trying not to look as if he was glad to have the extra space . |
| 15 | Henry concentrated on Donald 's face and , as so often these days , found it easier to look as if he was listening by doing the reverse . |
| 16 | You ate what you were given and tried to look as if you could n't really bear to think about food . |
| 17 | No-one else had gone quite as far as that , and the self-conscious Thiercelin had tried to look as if Lefevre was nothing to do with him . |
| 18 | Geoffrey Smith , and his associates Michael Mackett and Bernard Moss , have been experimenting with the possibility of modifying vaccinia to make a vaccine against hepatitis B — a major health problem in the Third World — and it is beginning to look as if it might work ( Nature , vol 302 , p 490 ) . |
| 19 | In contrast to the outside , the area was softly carpeted , softly lit , as if illness and death had to be cushioned away , made to look as if they did n't exist . |
| 20 | I should prefer the headland without it but it 's beginning to look as if it had a right to be there . ’ |
| 21 | At last , a jazz influenced band who do n't try to look as if they 've just stepped out of the pages of Kerouac . |
| 22 | It began to look as if the way was clear for members of the department to take any action they chose , in the sure knowledge that their decisions on how to deal with problems such as the W family would be implemented . |
| 23 | Trading standards officers found two thirds of the joints tested in Yorkshire and Humberside had fat added to look as if it was a natural part of the meat . |
| 24 | If the mash is beginning to look as if it might be too runny , cook gently to reduce . |
| 25 | Shrugging her shoulders , but trying to look as if the answer was ‘ hardly any time at all ’ , Liz said , ‘ However long it is , you 'll be able to see him regularly . |
| 26 | It is beginning to look as if he also carries within him a seed of self-destruction . |
| 27 | I tried to look as if this was perfectly normal , as if I 'd asked him to make the entry for me . |
| 28 | It begins to look as if ‘ the appearance of objects to the eye ’ and ‘ the judgement which we form by sight ’ do not constitute a dichotomy . |
| 29 | It begins to look as if there is a sense of ‘ appears ’ which is the complement neither of ‘ senses ’ nor of ‘ thinks ’ . |
| 30 | It begins to look as if what is exhausting is not the amount of work per se , but the lack of clear values to underpin it and the consequent lack of regular enjoyment and true satisfaction that arise from it . |