Example sentences of "it look [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If you are able to find a literary agent who will take on your work , the process of having it looked at by publishers will be speeded up for you .
2 Oh , yes , I 've been meaning to ask you , who was it looked after Wyvis Hall while you were in Greece ? ’
3 if it 's big and it looks worth it , but for a pair of gloves to pay a pound postage , er , er , you know
4 The self-reflexive text is thus also an intertext : it looks into itself and sees all the other texts of the past .
5 This year it looks as if I will have even more .
6 AFTER years of lobbying , it looks as if the Government will bring in legislation to force brewers to list the ingredients in their beers .
7 ‘ We have taken a step backward , ’ Ryan said — and on this sorry evidence it looks as if it will be backwards all the way when the Test takes place at Cardiff Arms Park on 4 November .
8 It looks as if Mr Honecker , 77 and only slowly recovering from a gall-bladder operation , is incapable of grasping the situation in his country .
9 A spokesman for British Gas said : ‘ It appears that gas was involved , although it looks as if it was a deliberate release rather than an accidental one . ’
10 It remains to be seen whether they will still be in business to take the show to London in April ; it looks as if the outcome of the Northern group may rest on the Roses game later in the month .
11 It looks as if roughly 130,000 East Germans have emigrated , illegally or legally , to the West this year .
12 Despite the attraction of bonuses worth £250,000 and a £400,000 prize fund , it looks as if Masters Ballesteros , Nick Faldo , Sandy Lyle and Bernhard Langer will not play in Spain .
13 It looks as if Mr Franklin and other shareholders will have to wait another three weeks for news on that front .
14 Rather , it looks as if we will have to wait until the end of 1991 before we get any dramatic improvement .
15 Now , with the Hollywood movie Not Without My Daughter , in which he stars opposite Sally Field , due out later this year , it looks as if he 's finally set for international fame .
16 Start doing something and it looks as if you have got worries . ’
17 Now it looks as if nothing could stop West Germany taking the lead with her unbeatable combination of credentials : guilt , enthusiasm , material interest and money .
18 ‘ At the moment it looks as if all major roadworks are suspended . ’
19 Yet it looks as if that most precious of ladies may be about to be raped — and what is more , by the very group of her countrymen set up to defend her honour and purity .
20 Now it looks as if only the banking directive , adopted by the Council of Ministers in December 1989 , will be operative in time .
21 So it looks as if cameramen ( rather than the proposed cameramans ) will be able to get on with their work in the Gulf ; the beloved accent on abîme will not fall into the abyss ; and the whole affair will have been a non-événement .
22 Now it looks as if the wrong side won .
23 The bust of Unamuno is still there , and again it looks as if someone has attempted to defile it , perhaps in some would-be funny student jape .
24 Quality , premiums , yields and timeliness are what the grain harvest is all about and so far it looks as if the malting trade may turn out not too bad .
25 Two ‘ Green Bush ’ bush marrow plants would have provided enough decent-sized marrows for our needs , while it looks as if my two courgette plants probably wo n't give enough fruit to justify their considerable demand on space in the plot .
26 ‘ Yes , it is weird , and I do n't think he is completely right in the head , Ari , but I 'm afraid it looks as if he might be telling the truth . ’
27 If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners .
28 IBM will doubtless throw much of its considerable muscle behind OS/2 — but increasingly it looks as if OS/2 will become something of a specialised product , used for heavyweight purposes like running database servers .
29 Now it looks as if history may be repeated .
30 It looks as if Mr Lejeune will soon be able to emulate His Grace .
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