Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question is whether young children learn best by studying at their own pace through relatively informal ‘ activity ’ methods in small groups ( which , to some parents , looks suspiciously like playing ) , or whether they should learn the three Rs sitting at their desks in a more competitive and disciplined environment . |
| 2 | To turn three pages of essay into 77 pages of story looks suspiciously like the kind of redundant ornamentation that Steiner suggests is at the heart of what is wrong with Western values . |
| 3 | It looks suspiciously like knee-jerk retributivism , spuriously ennobled by reference to the ‘ community ’ . |
| 4 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 5 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , we 'll take you up on that , Dave , ’ Graham said then suddenly looked despairingly at the sealed container . |
| 7 | It is at his feet that we throw ourselves like the bound figures which form the pedestal of this statue ( one captive looks upward with adoring eyes ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Hello stranger , ’ Cormack had said aggressively , and Amanda had looked nervously at the two men . |
| 9 | To the west , Chioggia looks inward across the lagoon and Sottomarina looks out to the Adriatic sea . |
| 10 | It looks remarkably like a trumpet . |
| 11 | The answer is that they will become superfluous , to be replaced by a new prototype that looks remarkably like a rugby league player . |
| 12 | What they drew up looks remarkably like any other adjustment programme . |
| 13 | The force wasted an enormous amount of energy producing a plan which looks remarkably like the one sketched out in Mr Clinton 's campaign manifesto . |
| 14 | Now 51 , Cleese is reputedly as hair conscious as Elton John , does fierce work-outs three times a week and has a new love — American psychotherapist Alyce-Faye Eichelberger ( who looks remarkably like his two ex-wives ) . |
| 15 | In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure . |
| 16 | It should be noted , however , that already with Schumpeter we have moved away from models based on the distinctiveness of the elite characteristic as an explanatory factor , to a lower-level operation which explicitly refers to realistic definitions rather than to explanations , and in which the model , such as it is , looks remarkably like a composite description of liberal democracy . |
| 17 | The Life itself looks remarkably like a version of the Passion of the Byzantine " megalomartyr " Menignos , relocated in Dijon , and the whole Benignus dossier is probably best interpreted as the response of a bishop to a non-Christian cult which he had not been able to stamp out . |
| 18 | Professional designers will come out with all sorts of advice but as this is intended for normal people I 'll suggest that you just go with what looks right to you . |
| 19 | Next card is from Birmingham , Sally in Birmingham and R S has written to us and , oh this looks right up your street Fred . |
| 20 | Once I 'd mastered a none-too-straightforward control panel , which looks rather like those muticoloured ever-flickering computers you find on the dashboard of executive cars , my test run got under way . |
| 21 | The trap looks rather like an open-ended small plastic cloche , and hangs in the tree . |
| 22 | This rare and peculiar fossil looks rather like a sea-lily without arms , and has more than a passing resemblance to a tennis racket ! |
| 23 | This species looks rather like the heart urchin but the petal-like areas are much more deeply sunken , the forward pair very short . |
| 24 | This species looks rather like a bun , but not highly convex , and with a five-sided outline . |
| 25 | The most intriguing of these are bread crust bombs , which are rounded or angular lumps with a smooth , glassy crust broken up by deep cracks and fissures which expose the frothy , vesicular core of the bomb , so that it looks rather like a well-baked crusty loaf . |
| 26 | It looks rather like a motorised version of a child 's two-wheeled scooter , with upright handlebars . |
| 27 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
| 28 | FIG. 2 From outside , the Milky Way probably looks rather like this typical barred spiral galaxy , NGC4535 . |
| 29 | Stir until all ingredients are amalgamated and the whole mixture looks rather like thick honey , with about the same consistency . |
| 30 | it looks rather like a is what we use ? |