Example sentences of "look [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were still hostages , but being better looked after took the edge off the horrors of captivity . |
| 2 | John Smith , once everyone 's favourite , looks like assuming the same well worn cloak . |
| 3 | Yet his return to the club looks like proving the most significant in Forest 's recovery . |
| 4 | Indeed , despite the Sixties ' experiments with alternative life-styles , the despised suburban style looks like seeing the century through , for all its drawbacks of loneliness , boredom and exasperation , which made the man in the New Yorker cartoon say plaintively at the cocktail party : ‘ I want to talk about something else besides kids and illness ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's just that he looks like bottling the Tokyo job , ’ she said quietly . |
| 6 | You 'd be amazed what he looks like sucking a dog 's toe . |
| 7 | The user interface looks like setting the standard for future electronic books of this kind . |
| 8 | But there was no ligament damage , and intensive treatment looks like achieving the miracle cure Leeds wanted . |
| 9 | This astute move by Sony looks like capturing the attractive , generic ‘ electronic book ’ name for the benefit of their own platform . |
| 10 | It was unanimous last time and it looks like going the same way this time , especially after Joe Punter saw the new design in the press . |
| 11 | Another service to industry , which has Just started up , looks like having a great future . |
| 12 | Offering substantial weight savings to makers of electronic packages , the material looks like having a bright future and Barry Moloney , Marketing and Sales Manager responsible for HIVOL , was kept very busy discussing possible applications and the advantages it promises . |
| 13 | Jimmy Quinn looks like landing the jockeys all-weather crown and he can take another step towards that landmark by winning the Milton Handicap on Westfield Moves . |
| 14 | DARLINGTON striker Steve Mardenborough looks like missing the derby . |
| 15 | And he looks like remaining the only two- and four-wheeled world champion for quite some time … unless Joey Dunlop , Eddie Lawson or Wayne Gardner have other ideas ! |
| 16 | They will plead not guilty.The use of an eighteenth century law looks like scraping the barrel . |
| 17 | It is sad that Countrywatch looks like becoming a growth industry . |
| 18 | Laser engines undoubtedly rule at this moment in time but the LED looks like becoming a strong contender with devices like the NEC SilentWriter — it 's also inherently more reliable . |
| 19 | The Trust looks like becoming the premier wilderness organisation in Scotland . |
| 20 | EAST Germany 's vast security police apparatus , once a fearsome state within a state , looks like becoming the next centre of Stalinist power to fall to the country 's ‘ people power ’ revolution . |
| 21 | And because we live in an era when all other human relations and values are in crisis , or at least somewhere on a journey towards unknown and uncertain destinations , xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin de siècle . |
| 22 | Today , CD-A looks like becoming the biggest success in consumer electronics since the television . |
| 23 | And he looks like losing a fortune on it . |
| 24 | I have difficulty from time to time in persuading some of my colleagues to believe that a boy not yet 21 could amass so much experience in such a short time ; he had completed two tours and looked like completing a third . |
| 25 | Their Lordships also had to look after half-a-dozen Caribbean islands , of which the newest , Jamaica , was much the largest and looked like providing the best prospects for the future . |
| 26 | ‘ Mike is treating Harley like a superstar and he 's never looked like winning a major . |
| 27 | Of all the fashions of the past that have been dredged up , dusted off , and revamped , only in poor Shirley Conran 's imaginatively malnourished Lace-trimmed sexual fantasies has the codpiece ever even looked like making a reappearance ; which is curious . |
| 28 | He was four under par , and never looked like missing a putt . |
| 29 | This month Jane looks at re-training the older horse and over the next few issues she will be giving invaluable advice on overcoming the most common problems . |
| 30 | We have established a pilot plant at our Park Royal Brewery which looks at improving the productivity and yield of our brewhouses , through special filtration processes . |