Example sentences of "it looks " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment it looks like my usual stint of ironing on Thursday and shopping on Friday are the main fixtures , but anything can happen before then . |
| 2 | ‘ It looks cool … ’ |
| 3 | It looks like an enlargement of the postcard which , in an age of mechanical reproduction , it was to become , commemorating the tourist attraction which it was also to become . |
| 4 | For this reason the speed of the speech may be slower than it looks , the cigarette smoking being used to punctuate it . |
| 5 | It looks like mine , he said , examining it , but there 's no label on it . |
| 6 | ‘ No , it looks OK . |
| 7 | This year it looks as if I will have even more . |
| 8 | I would be so grateful if you could tell me the name of it , because it looks so unusual . |
| 9 | It looks like magnesium deficiency , which is very common on sandy and light soils , where the nutrient is quickly leached away . |
| 10 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 11 | If it looks forced , it will count for nothing. , Angus and John Stewart were restive now and young McCulloch was jeering openly . |
| 12 | ‘ It looks it . ’ |
| 13 | So I can see if it looks okay . |
| 14 | It looks silly from the perspective of our so-called ‘ folk psychology ’ of thinking . |
| 15 | It looks sadly as though only too much of England — or shall we say the English populace — is what it seems . |
| 16 | It looks at the reasons for dissatisfaction at the ways in which complaints are handled , highlighting an example of an elderly couple who had waited two years for someone to come round with a colour chart , prior to decorating the outside of their house . |
| 17 | AFTER years of lobbying , it looks as if the Government will bring in legislation to force brewers to list the ingredients in their beers . |
| 18 | It looks as though this may be the price for privatising the water companies that everyone feared . ’ |
| 19 | Ingleborough — the ‘ Monarch of the Dales ’ — is a noble hill , especially when seen from Whernside 's Twistleton Scars across the deep trench of Chapel-le-Dale to the west , with its features etched against a clear , blue sky ; then it looks as fine a peak as any in the country . |
| 20 | The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top . |
| 21 | But it looks like the next generation is here . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | However , it looks as though Grand Met 's bid is going to be beaten by a management buyout which is in the final stages of negotiation . |
| 24 | It was as expensive as it looks , but then , Alaa bolero tops do not come at bargain basement prices and in any case who could resist the temptation to pirouette up stairs like this ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Now it looks like a scene set from Beau Geste , or one of those biblical epics . |
| 29 | ‘ It looks like a short-term reaction to a short-term situation , partially sparked off by the ridiculous reaction to the August trade figures , ’ Sir Trevor added . |
| 30 | Infected programmes activate the virus when started up and it looks for other programmes to infect . |