Example sentences of "[noun] looked to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protagonists looked to be heading for an all-out clash , but the outbreak of war in August put an abrupt end to the contest . |
| 2 | And Gallagher 's three goals looked to be providing Leeds with a huge payday at Headingley … until Ropati struck . |
| 3 | When Tony Isaacs replaced Andy Toman , the home side looked to be losing their way until Carl Beeston put Mark Stein clear with a through ball and the danger man made no mistake . |
| 4 | Plymouth looked to be cruising to victory when striker Dwight Marshall made up for an early miss with two goals in three minutes in the first half of this tie . |
| 5 | Two minutes later Leota was seen at his exciting best when he made a midfield break from 45 yards which took him clean through the Rovers defence , and when Taewa scored his second try in the 72nd minute Rovers looked to be subsiding fast . |
| 6 | The Australians looked to be heading out of the championship when New Zealand 's Peter Belliss and Gary Lawson took the opening set 7-1 and then recovered from 0-6 down to add the second 7-6 . |
| 7 | The room looked to be what they had thought ; a store or perhaps a fuelhouse which might be left unattended for most of the time . |
| 8 | A second inventory was then ordered to see if anything else had gone missing , and Mme Huyghe 's disgrace looked to be complete . |
| 9 | At Harrods , Gardiner looked to be rowing a little short forward and Cambridge shot Hammersmith Bridge possibly a few feet ahead . |
| 10 | His evidence for fusion neutrons consisted of what to the eye looked to be only a moderate increase of neutrons in a small range of energy , though admittedly in the right region to be from fusion . |
| 11 | Gwen looked to be a couple of years older than herself , and , whereas Leo was dark , his sister was a redhead with green eyes , which looked as though they might be very astute , Hilary decided with sinking spirits . |
| 12 | He led into the first corner , and for two third of the Belgian race looked to be completely in control . |
| 13 | But the RYA was always more likely to plump for a more conventional design and building set-up , and four boats at Rutland Water looked to be in the frame . |
| 14 | In the mid-1970s Cramlington looked to be succeeding in its industrial and environmental modernization , which simultaneously resolved the ‘ post coal ’ problems of South East Northumberland and provided a pleasant over spill mechanism for reducing residential densities in the Tyneside conurbation . |
| 15 | But , say what you like about him , he was probably the perfect bridge between us and a being from another world , especially when that being proved to be as mean and nasty as Argol looked to be . |
| 16 | The displacement looked to be of considerable extent , much larger than the chunk of 2020 which had brought me to 1816 , or the chunk of some mysterious medieval land which had arrived earlier on my front doorstep . |
| 17 | Helen turned to the stove ; the risotto looked to be heaving over-enthusiastically . |
| 18 | Baker-Finch had slipped off the leaderboard , and Watson looked to be in big trouble with his drive at the 12th . |
| 19 | Just a couple of weeks ago this game looked to be a certain home banker . |
| 20 | His whole buying policy looked to be a failure . |
| 21 | The Australian yellow submarine looked to be sunk at the bottom of a roadside ditch . |
| 22 | The pitch was rock hard and slippy and Hereford looked to be sliding into trouble when Shrewsbury full-back , Graeme Worsley thumped his team into the lead in the second half . |
| 23 | AS The Milk Race cavalcade left Liverpool today , Chris Lillywhite looked to be heading for the Banana team 's third race victory in four years . |
| 24 | And the big chest that comprised most of the newcomer 's luggage looked to be full of gold , Hugh decided . |
| 25 | The man looked to be asleep though his eyelids were only half-closed . |
| 26 | But just as the Americans looked to be heading to a heavy and humiliating defeat in their first ever game against Germany , they struck back with two goals in seven minutes to set up a tense finish . |
| 27 | At the time , we had just published Hospitals : A Suitable Case for Treatment and the New End looked to be a typical example of a wasted opportunity . |
| 28 | Barcelona looked to be comfortably on the Wembley Way when , 11 minutes later , Eusebio fed Stoichkov on the left and the Bulgarian cut the ball back from the by-line for Bakero to score . |
| 29 | And when Eagles ' David Mycoe grabbed a try in the 45th minute Wigan looked to be in some danger . |
| 30 | The sleeveless tunic looked to be made of doeskin , supple as linen , and worked into the left breast was a flame symbol , picked out in scarlet and yellow thread . |