Example sentences of "not look [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All in all , as Reagan prepared to take office the omens for a successful presidency did not look particularly good . |
| 2 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 3 | The hood is a fairly flimsy affair which does not look particularly rainproof . ’ |
| 4 | THE small , middle-aged woman sitting alongside me in the rowdy ringside throng did not look particularly important . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I do not think that there can be any combination that we did not try during my time in the parks , and the only thing that did not look positively awful were the short growing , pale , less intense blues of violas and lobelia under pink and red roses — other colours and growing heights were invariably a tasteless rag-bag . |
| 7 | Clara did not look best pleased to see her . |
| 8 | Does not look quite fit yet . |
| 9 | ‘ I watched him play against Liverpool and he scored a fine goal and did not look far short of his true form . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Having settled the matter , Charity became quite friendly and urged Clarissa kindly to cheer up and not look so gloomy because there was a good time coming . |
| 12 | Tonight he did not look so stern , and there was a softness in his fine , dark eyes . |
| 13 | ‘ You need not look so downcast . |
| 14 | She did not look so gaunt and old , and her lips were red and full , and curved , like a smile but not quite a smile . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A rose stem is not very thick , and it does not look very nice to use a stake so thick as to be out of proportion to the stem it is supporting . |
| 17 | On second thoughts he also sent one of his aides to fetch blankets as well , for some of the ladies did not seem to be very decently attired and , although they did not look very enticing , he still did not want them to give his men ideas . |
| 18 | John 's overcoat of a thin material in the rather common ‘ Italian ’ style did not look very warm , she thought with a pang . |
| 19 | ‘ You see , Miss Kyte , things do not look very good for you . ’ |
| 20 | Or could it be that the front-runner in the fusion race does not look very promising as the basis of a reactor ? |
| 21 | Mr Slipper was still smiling but somehow he did not look very happy . |
| 22 | He did not look very happy about the arrival of his fiancée . ’ |
| 23 | White did not look very crisp ( pure white , not this modern off white ) . |
| 24 | It did not look very neat , he had to admit , but unless the prospective buyer looked down into the cabinet the bodgery would not be discovered . |
| 25 | But he did not look very relaxed in his supporting role of the Genie . |
| 26 | Even the inner-city property sites of National Carriers did not look very tempting once it became clear there was an abundance of that kind of property on offer . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | All of which helps to explain why Mr Kohl 's chances of winning re-election do not look as bad as a shrinking economy , growing budget deficit , and foreign-policy gridlock might lead you to expect . |
| 29 | She risked putting the lamp on and was pleased to see that Ana 's feet did not look as bad as her own felt . |
| 30 | Most of the bell-shaped flowers are much harder to press , as they do not look as pretty when viewed in two dimensions as they do in three . |