Example sentences of "to look [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wordsworth 's ‘ retirement ’ to the Lakes begins to look less like a retreat than a strategic withdrawal to ensure survival . |
| 2 | First , the shot-gun approach involves the buyer saying ‘ Unless you agree immediately to a price reduction of 20% we 'll have to look elsewhere for a supplier . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd have to look elsewhere for a vet . ’ |
| 4 | Apple Computer Inc chairman and chief executive officer John Sculley 's name has made it to the short list to be Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration : if he takes the cabinet post , Apple 's likely to look outside for a replacement . |
| 5 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 6 | Howard hugs her , and has to look away for a moment , he is so moved . |
| 7 | Later , Lahore was made to look more like a station . |
| 8 | Theorists tell us it ought to look more like a symphony orchestra or a hospital or perhaps the British Raj . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard is beginning to look increasingly like a printer company that also makes and sells computers , so much of the focus was on printers , with Douglas Carnahan , vice-president and general manager of the printing systems group saying that the company hopes to beat the industry 's compound annual growth rate in sales dollars in the printer market over the next five years . |
| 10 | I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’ |
| 11 | He urged the Government to look hard at a number of other measures , short and long-term , to improve the position : |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that if Britain wants to look forward to a level of economic health even approaching that to which it has grown accustomed over the past 50 years , it must back Alvey 's proposals . |
| 13 | As the Bristol teams , and others who may build on their examples , move forward in their research and their care for families , we can begin to look forward to a time when the tragedy of loss and anguish faced by famous people like Anne Diamond and Julie Walters , and thousands of other ordinary everyday people , may become a thing of the past . |
| 14 | SCHOOLBOY Neil Aspden has put the horrors of a vicious assault behind him to look forward to a Christmas of a lifetime . |
| 15 | She thought she saw a movement and turned to look again at a stone figure lying on a tomb . |
| 16 | Sometimes they will go back to look again at a word which has been passed . |
| 17 | For to choose a man on the ground that you agree with him more than his rivals is quite clearly to choose a representative ; moreover , the set of people who agree with a candidate comes to look very like a party as soon as they concert their actions . |