Example sentences of "to look [adv] like [art] [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 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 3 | Later , Lahore was made to look more like a station . |
| 4 | Theorists tell us it ought to look more like a symphony orchestra or a hospital or perhaps the British Raj . |
| 5 | The actual work of most councils continued to look more like the product of incremental growth and fragmented decision-making than of corporate policy-making . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This time they centred around the inability , on my part , to learn and remember two-and-a-half hours ' solo dialogue , to look remotely like the woman I was playing , and to overcome the prejudices of the millions of Joyce-worshippers who were all sitting out there sticking pins in little waxwork Lipman dolls . |