Example sentences of "look very [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There is also a part of the Gibson building that looks very much like a hospital environment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | It looks very much like a right angle . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it still looks very much like a Saab ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Because of their large size and numbers ( they can look very much like a large serving of spaghetti ! ) , they can completely obstruct an intestine . |
| 13 | I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response . |
| 14 | In fact , it begins to look very much like a piece of a priori theorising about how language works . |
| 15 | It still looked very much like a castle , the interior with great arched ceilings , and Maggie was determined to enjoy everything and ignore the dark , brooding air of the man who kept her closely at his side . |
| 16 | It looked very much like a Francis Bacon , and an original at that . |
| 17 | ‘ Hello , ’ Ken called back , feigning the appearance of what looked very much like a smile . |
| 18 | The air was so full of flying stones , pieces of metal , swirling dust , that it was impossible to make out the markings on the car which had ended up skewed across the track , but it looked very much like a Dalgety . |
| 19 | Apart from its bill , at a distance it looked very much like an out of place penguin . |