Example sentences of "look [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | M103 is in the same × 20 field with Delta , but is not at all easy to identify , and looks rather more like a chance aggregation of stars . |
| 2 | This manoeuvre looks rather more like a tail-spin . |
| 3 | It may be junk , but it looks all right in a garden . |
| 4 | The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century . |
| 5 | For instance , observer bias would have occurred in our study if the endoscopist has looked more intensely for a hiatal hernia after noting that oesophagitis was present . |
| 6 | This looks almost inescapably like a type of variation according to the referential category represented by the noun — i.e. not really a matter of syntactic relation at all — and this impression is strengthened by his further remark , " Having provided for the two extremes of referent-modification and reference-modification , we can now assess the blending that frequently — perhaps more often than not — takes place between the two . " |
| 7 | It now looks very well in a 15in pot , staked against wind damage and regularly fed , and in its first year yielded a crop of more than 3lb of berries . |
| 8 | There is also a part of the Gibson building that looks very much like a hospital environment . |
| 9 | Propelled into what looks very much like a 19th-century diplomatic morass , Mr Clinton is torn between the two styles ; and America is driven mad by the imperatives , first , of leading and , second , of getting its nervous friends behind it . |
| 10 | Thomas Blunt , the bailiff of Chaddesley Corbett 's annuity of 20 marks looks very much like a salary , similar to Thomas Solley of Hindlip 's ‘ fee of one mark for the bailiwick of Abbotsey ’ . |
| 11 | It looks very much like a right angle . |
| 12 | What is more , a Tertiary stage looks very much like a zone through Mesozoic eyes , and with Palaeozoic spectacles a Jurassic stage is at most an Ordovician zone . |
| 13 | But it still looks very much like a Saab ! |
| 14 | Here we have something that looks very much like a totalitarian welfare state in microcosm , and which must have powerfully contributed to Schreber 's psychosis , which featured delusions of passive submission to impregnation by an omnipotent solar god . |
| 15 | During the action of The Lord of the Rings , though , Gandalf never looks very much like an angel , or at least not one of the normal iconographic kind . |
| 16 | She had to sit down , she thought , looking dazedly around for a chair . |
| 17 | He gestured towards the door , where Hilary Frome was standing , flaunting his fair hair and profile , and looking still more like an illustration of one of Baden Powell 's scouting manuals ; a fine specimen of British boyhood , who in only a matter of a year or two might be imagined assuming the burden of Empire , and administering imperial justice with rod and gun to one or other of the lesser breeds without the law . |
| 18 | And suddenly , as an uproar began in her , Azor was forgotten , and she jerked to stand upright , and found she was looking straight up into a pair of dark smouldering eyes . |
| 19 | ‘ Plenty of fluids , and if he is n't looking decidedly better in a couple of days , come back and we 'll take another look , but I 'm sure you do n't need to worry . ’ |
| 20 | Next minute Miss Lodsworth 's head appeared over the half-door , looking even more like a horse than Wayne . |
| 21 | I was looking then only at an empty stretch of spaceport beyond the comm-booth that she 'd called from . |
| 22 | In 1990 we heralded the dawning of a New Europe — in 1992 we can advance as true Europeans , looking forward especially to a closer partnership with our friends in Dieppe , Rouen and Lille . |
| 23 | The Femidom is a new female condom looking very much like a larger version of the male variety , except these things are ribbed at both ends , a bit like a fisherman 's keep net . |
| 24 | I 'm looking very hard for a new amp as a 30th anniversary present to myself and would really like to own a quality ( loud ! ) amp which I can carry in one hand . |
| 25 | The formal ought may look rather too like an artificial construct brought in to make the theory work and some might well wonder how the special functional legal ought could simultaneously be regarded , as I purport to regard it , as a moral ought . |
| 26 | Certainly , a bank , for example , would look more favourably on an application for an overdraft after having some insight into the future cash position of a firm . |
| 27 | ‘ Coffee , ’ he replied , then , as she gave the order , leaned forward to look more closely at a framed photograph of a freckle-faced boy on her desk . |
| 28 | I crossed to the window to look more closely at a portrait of Victor 's mother . |
| 29 | You may want to look more closely at an image which is unfamiliar . |
| 30 | I have had a Chinese hair-cut which makes me look slightly less like a fierce western barbarian to Chinese eyes , but I have kept my beard . |