Example sentences of "[conj] look as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drinking blackcurrant juice from a plastic beaker , her hair in a bob that looks as though she did it herself with kitchen scissors , she looks like a child . |
| 2 | Only fifty yards further upstream I find a smooth glide along my own bank that looks as though it should hold a few chub . |
| 3 | Sending a typed letter , or at least one that looks as though it is typed , so it looks personalised . |
| 4 | For instance , you can build up a design that looks as though it has been pressed as a single spray ( see pp. 98–9 ) , although in fact each flower and leaf should be positioned with care to give a natural effect . |
| 5 | Oh well that looks as though we 've we 've got the careers officer one |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm just not used to something that looks as though it should have wings and be flying in the air instead of being driven ! ’ |
| 7 | One way that looks as though it works is simply to enter the formula +A5 into C5 and then copy from A5 to A6 … |
| 8 | So first of all I put it on a little er I 've got a rather nasty little table that looks as though it ought to have a chamber pot underneath it you remember that nasty little wooden bedside table that I hate |
| 9 | Or the nineteen thirties book is like one of the things that really inspired me because it showed me that you can do type that looks as though , I mean it can be composed as though in metal and not be boring — can not be , manufactured , you know hum drum , by varying the weights and by massing it , and also one of the things they do , that you see in those books that you did n't see in printing , was this size of type . |
| 10 | The tower itself is a tapering rectangular pylon capped by a line of corbels that look as though they should support a belfry . |
| 11 | In consequence there are no autumn colours to be viewed in surroundings that look as though there should be — no golds and flaming reds to set off the whites , blues and blacks of snow , water and rock . |
| 12 | On the back of its thorax it has two flap-like sideways extensions of the chitinous shell that look as though they might be the rudiments of wings . |
| 13 | Desktop publishing , as far as the user is concerned , is really the action of producing documents that look as though they have been professionally designed and produced by traditional methods . |
| 14 | Nice there 's some of them that look as though they 're double . |
| 15 | Yet it often happens that when a new kung fu student enters a kwoon , with pre-conceived ideas about fighting , and is shown basic techniques that look as though they were aimed at primary school level , he looks for more in those techniques than there actually is . |
| 16 | That is , a DCS200 fitted with a 28mm ( normally wide-angle ) lens will produce images that look as though they have been shot on a 50mm ( standard ) lens . |
| 17 | Indeed , many trees that look as though they might be adapted to wind pollination are known to be pollinated by insects — like Mallotus oppositifolius ( Euphorbiaceae ) in West Africa , which has an attractive sweet scent — and it has been suspected that even forest grasses are animal pollinated . |
| 18 | At 17.23 I was sitting in Jake 'n' Suzi 's Unisex Salon , a tiny place that looked as though cockroaches 'd run out of corners and over your toes . |
| 19 | And the hair that looked as though it had been dramatically carved out of something shiny rather than been grown in the normal way . |
| 20 | I could see the beginning of cloud formations in the far west that looked as though they might thicken up and , since I wanted to get some shots of the Cove while the light was still good , I set off by Water Sinks , where the water from the Tarn sinks and does n't reappear again until some miles down the valley at Aire Head , and followed the footpath that would take me west of Watlowes dry valley and bring me down to the Cove by the pasture land above the Pennine Way . |
| 21 | He was wearing a disreputable pair of jeans that looked as though they 'd never seen an iron , and a grey shirt , the sleeves rolled back as if it were summer . |
| 22 | The adjustment system is not particularly good , something of a nut-and-bolt operation , and looks as though it could well be vulnerable to failure as the bolt wears through the covering fabric . |
| 23 | Nothing looks worse , and does a poorer job , than a worm which has been stuck on the hook several times and looks as though it has been tied in a knot . |
| 24 | It 's more than possible that there were a number of courtiers with the same build and looks as he . ’ |
| 25 | She rose on to her knees and looked as though she was praying , but her eyes were fully open and the clenched look on her remarkably white face with its mannish black eyebrows suddenly reminded him of her dead mother . |
| 26 | It was heavy , crippling and precious and looked as though it might be very ancient , pre-Christian or possibly even pre-Flood although , in fact , it was not . |
| 27 | Brian chewed a bit of chicken and looked as though he was about to speak , so Camille spoke again . |
| 28 | He settled back in the chair , his leg accidentally brushing against Alyssia 's , and looked as though he was highly intrigued by the conversation and in no hurry to excuse himself . |
| 29 | Mavis detached herself from the group and looked as though she thought she probably ought to be making an effort to take charge . |
| 30 | He was — interesting , and looked as though he knew his way around the world both backwards and forwards , including the inside of a lady 's bedroom — not that she was intending to let him inside her bedroom , but it might be fun to indulge in a little flirtation , might n't it ? |