Example sentences of "[modal v] not look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State seems to think that we should be so grateful that the Government have promised that the poll tax will go that we should not look too closely at what will replace it . |
| 2 | They should not look actively for these behaviours : rather they should wait till they come to their attention before recording them . |
| 3 | If their receptive fields are illuminated with spectrally pure light , say red , these cells respond vigorously , even though the stimulus may not look particularly red to a human observer . |
| 4 | Of the greatest player of her day , Jane Austen wrote only that ‘ We were quite satisfied with Mr. Kean , ’ — which may not look so good splashed across the marquee but which is all many of the experts demand : as far as Miss Austen is concerned , he did n't get in the way of the drama . |
| 5 | These Koi may not look much at the time you part with your cash , but then , certain varieties never show their full potential until they are mature . |
| 6 | While they may not look much . |
| 7 | The South American porcupines ( below , left ) may not look as impressive as the great crested species from Africa ( below , right ) but their quills are sharply barbed so that once they have entered a predator 's flesh they can not easily be removed . |
| 8 | But the jury of neighbours who decide upon your fertility might not look too kindly upon you if they think you are going to bring up your children as Jehovah 's Witnesses or Servants of Baal , or use the terror of hell as a way of controlling them : or beat the soles of their feet if they get the Koran wrong . |
| 9 | However , a few years down the line , a heavily discounted car might not look quite such a good bargain . |
| 10 | She could not look away from him . |
| 11 | Mr Barnet — it was clearly he — continued to look at her , and while he did so she could not look away . |
| 12 | She could not look away , could only gaze back at him , wondering what he sought . |
| 13 | She could not look away . |
| 14 | Even after a lifetime in Hollywood , Lorna could not look comfortably on squalor . |
| 15 | Somewhere at the back of her mind , she knew there was an image of someone , but she dare not look too closely . |
| 16 | But the model-turned-actress need not look so worried … she 's starring as Snow White in this season 's panto at Croydon 's Ashcroft Theatre . |
| 17 | ‘ You need not look so downcast . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman need not look only to the health authority chief executive ; he can ask the patients . |
| 19 | The path is deeply etched all the way along the ridge , but walkers need not look too guiltily at their boots — like many others in the area , the path was formerly a packhorse route and horses are not noted for their ecological delicacy . |
| 20 | We shall take it , as anticipated earlier ( p. 16 ) , and in some agreement with these views , that all causes and effects are physical events , but we need not look further into the views . |
| 21 | In future , ministers need not look far for a way to bridge working relationships between central and local government . |
| 22 | The County Council published a statement saying they would not look favourably on any development , Max Nicholson of the NCC entered the fray and we managed to raise the necessary endowment of £100,000 locally . |
| 23 | If that is a railroad , it is pretty slow , and I would not look forward to travelling on it . |
| 24 | Cornwall was no centre of radicalism , so one would not look there for a pattern of oscillation , but a detailed study of the Great Yorkshire Revival of 1792 – 6 has led its author to the conclusion that Thompson 's speculative idea gains some support from the experience of the North . |
| 25 | Jimmy and Denis we decided would not look too kindly on our request , the one being too staid and the other too much engrossed in his wife and family . |
| 26 | It would not look too good if a 110 flown by a man well over forty had outpaced and outmanoeuvred two Spitfires piloted by ‘ the cream ’ . |
| 27 | However , the particles that emerged would not look much like the astronaut . |
| 28 | ‘ We can not look forward to holidays , ’ Isabel said . |
| 29 | However hopeful we may be , however much we may snatch at the more encouraging indicators , we can not look forward with any great confidence to a consumer recovery . |
| 30 | In practice , the SAM can not look very deeply below the surface of an object . |