Example sentences of "it [vb -s] like [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Petalling starts at the bottom and works up , overlapping so it looks like a tiled roof because theoretically that sheds the rain . |
| 32 | Again , it looks like a standard block . |
| 33 | But if the decision is made to share the same house , and it looks like a viable proposition , then planning should begin optimistically and without fuss , having due regard for the needs of all parties . |
| 34 | It looks like a pedal steel , but is has the cubic capacity of a Dobro , with a resonator on the top and pedals . |
| 35 | Most often it resembles a horse , though sometimes it looks like a calf with a white flag around its neck , or an ass . |
| 36 | From the front , it looks like a textured wall that time forgot — once inside , you could be in the corridor of a completely wooden train . |
| 37 | ITN would be unable to overcome the loss of Sir Alastair Burnet , he told TV Times — ‘ Without him it looks like a scratch team . ’ |
| 38 | It looks like a battle ground or a visitation of plague ; and indeed , it is something of both of these . |
| 39 | ‘ In the brochure it looks like a picture of Disneyland in the bush with mud huts with all mod cons . |
| 40 | Royal watcher Marget Holder said : ‘ It looks like a Christmas gathering of the estranged wives of Windsor . |
| 41 | IT looks like a prosperous Christmas as crowds pack into London 's Oxford Street . |
| 42 | Being a tall plant with ribbon-like leaves , it looks like a Vallisneria . |
| 43 | ‘ Well , it looks like a large dog , look at its head . ’ |
| 44 | Instead , it looks like a recipe for setting ministers at each other 's throats . |
| 45 | ‘ It looks like a party ! ’ replied the kingfisher , perched on the wall . |
| 46 | It looks like a man wrapped in a shroud . |
| 47 | Be careful not to install a mirror in such a position that it looks like a door , which people might then try to walk through ! |
| 48 | The first promising thing about the Clarendon Hotel at Chale on the Isle of Wight is that it looks like a charming little English country hotel . |
| 49 | Despite the pain and distress of his illness he said recently : ‘ I know from the outside it looks like a blow but from my view things are different . |
| 50 | The most famous of Dorset 's natural oddities is the rock arch at Durdle Door — it looks like a jagged shark fin . |
| 51 | ‘ It looks like a gigantic tortoise , ’ said Marco Metz . |
| 52 | ‘ It looks like a safety net , ’ she said with distaste . |
| 53 | I can not be mistaken about perceiving something as , say , a cigarette case , because in saying , ‘ It looks like a cigarette case ’ I am not saying that there is an appearance which is a cigarette case . |
| 54 | Now the torrents and viperish fury that fired ‘ Weld ’ have subsided , it looks like a battle that had to be waged to get to the next stage — the calm , healing shores and sanguine odes of ‘ Harvest Moon ’ . |
| 55 | It looks like a sagging , browny-grey jelly that fairly rapidly decays into an unpleasant mush . |
| 56 | It looks like a slightly small-sized cross between a bee and a wasp , but with a longer drooping tail . |
| 57 | It looks like a souped-up version of Skylab , the orbiting laboratory that NASA launched with a Saturn V moon-rocket after the Apollo programme had been curtailed . |
| 58 | Nowadays it looks like a bulwark built on sand . |
| 59 | With binoculars it looks like a faint blur , easy enough with × 7 , while with × 20 there is an indication of resolution into stars at its outer edges . |
| 60 | It has a condensed centre , and in binoculars it looks like a circular fuzz . |