Example sentences of "look [adv] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the past experiences of many manufacturing workers , and the wariness of telecommunications workers , the industrial robot looks increasingly likely to be a positive rather than a negative influence in many working environments . |
| 2 | He looks almost certain to be released today . |
| 3 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 4 | Just ask Falkirk , who have produced some great stuff this season yet look increasingly likely to be playing their football in the First Division next season . |
| 5 | As some girls suddenly look too tall to be ballet dancers , she became too large for her father 's devotion , for Haverford always preferred smallish women with what he had once described in one of his more personal ‘ Jottings ’ as the ‘ tip-tilted noses of impertinent page-boys ’ . |
| 6 | Its villages look too good to be true . |
| 7 | We noted how shrewdly the man was found paying attention to the member of the party who looked most likely to be the paymaster . |
| 8 | She looked quite happy to be in the wheelchair . |
| 9 | Catering that had been so under threat in the later seventies suddenly attracted new importance ; indeed , the single Manchester Pullman that looked almost certain to be a casualty of further standardisation in the eighties was joined by a bevy of Pullmans if only Pullman service on HSTs and Mark 3s . |
| 10 | They all looked too tired to be bothered with any joking . |
| 11 | They 'd been builder-restored as a unit , and they looked too picturesque to be true . |
| 12 | She looked too young to be a mother . |
| 13 | ‘ She looked too small to be the Queen , ’ said Mr Fagan , so he drew back the curtains to get a better look . |
| 14 | It was red and looked too small to be a lorry but never the less it had wheels like the carts in the village . |
| 15 | Commander Whitehead , a jovial , dashing , red-bearded figure with a Homburg and a briefcase , cheerfully splashing tonic water about on convivial occasions , looked too good to be true . |
| 16 | He was older , pale-skinned and looked too thin to be a welterweight , but the right cross that had put his younger opponent down had belied his looks . |