Example sentences of "now look [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Freud , in Civilization and its Discontents , advanced the profoundly historicist suggestion that we should be cautious about interpreting the miseries of earlier times , since what now looks like unacceptable suffering may have felt less so in a different culture .
2 Could somebody please explain to me why it is that a project that was always highly speculative and which now looks like a near disaster should have been so profitable for investors ?
3 My desk now looks like it 's Christmas .
4 The deadline on the payment , which is the final tranche of a total Bond investment of more than £154m , is early November , but it now looks as though the money could be paid over as early as next week .
5 Mr Ivan Norman , 30 , Business Operations Director for Nevada Bob 's , said : ‘ The Easter weekend , April and May periods , are the busiest of the year for us It now looks as though we will spend them temporarily out of business . ’
6 As shown with Elizabeth and Harry , the man feels very much threatened , as he 's lost his job , by retiring , and it now looks as though he is losing his wife as well .
7 The enumeration tree now looks as in Fig. 11.2 if nodes 5 and 6 are ignored .
8 However , the spokesman said : ‘ It now looks as though they had been fighting each other and nobody else was involved . ’
9 But it now looks as though something similar can happen in a failing computer .
10 Polytechnics are also expanding rapidly — more rapidly at present than the universities — and it now looks as though government targets will be met .
11 It now looks as though it will do the same for them in plastic sea kayak design .
12 But it now looks as though pressure for earlier action may surface at the United Nations in the autumn , led by Canada and Malta .
13 It now looks as though they will .
14 Unfortunately , it is now looking as though the true story is more complicated , and that other variables , such as metabolic rate , may be more important .
15 You do n't need to do that now look cos I can just carry the thing into the kitchen .
16 Yeah and er , I said to Jane now I said now look before I go to Preston , I want to go in the pub
17 Now look as though you 're surprised by them love !
18 The two men had gone out at dawn each morning , and for five consecutive days their huers had run up and down the cliff paths , whistling and signalling with flags and gorse bushes to guide the two fleets to the shoals ; and while everyone in Polruan had confidently expected Sam Gristy to win hands down , it now looked as though Harry had the edge .
19 As soon as he received it , the holy man who now looked like a scarecrow gave most of it away .
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