Example sentences of "looks [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | M103 is in the same × 20 field with Delta , but is not at all easy to identify , and looks rather more like a chance aggregation of stars . |
| 2 | This manoeuvre looks rather more like a tail-spin . |
| 3 | It may be junk , but it looks all right in a garden . |
| 4 | The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century . |
| 5 | ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ is the one story for Doctor Who Cusick looks back on with a shudder . |
| 6 | Like most of his music , it looks back fondly to a golden age , but it does so creatively and with vitality . |
| 7 | In this programme , Stanley , at the age of 88 , looks back fondly to a time when he was , unquestionably , Champion of the World . |
| 8 | Downstairs , the large kitchen looks out on to a spectacular garden , complete with fountains , a stream and sculptured bushes and shrubs . |
| 9 | This looks almost inescapably like a type of variation according to the referential category represented by the noun — i.e. not really a matter of syntactic relation at all — and this impression is strengthened by his further remark , " Having provided for the two extremes of referent-modification and reference-modification , we can now assess the blending that frequently — perhaps more often than not — takes place between the two . " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There is also a part of the Gibson building that looks very much like a hospital environment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | It looks very much like a right angle . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But it still looks very much like a Saab ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |