Example sentences of "[adj] that [pers pn] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 2 | Firdaus is so stung by this that she looks for another job . |
| 3 | Although precise definitions are hard to come by , it is clear that they looked to some kind of ideal worker , that is , someone who was trustworthy , interested , intelligent , literate and numerate , full of initiative , and capable of mental and physical agility . |
| 4 | You need some sort of order and some sort of security , it makes your mind so sort of universal that you look for some sort of order … ’ |
| 5 | I 'm afraid that it looks as if the game will be completely ruined . |
| 6 | Visitor pressure and the often mindless or downright destructive behaviour of some of the people who come to this area have annoyed some farmers so much that they look on walkers as just another kind of vermin — and there are many times when I can sympathise with this attitude completely . |
| 7 | The bikini is tiny , three triangles of cotton crochet , and her ribs protrude so much that she looks as if she is made of corrugated paper . |
| 8 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 9 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 10 | The scrolls of the ears flat against the side of the skull were so large that they looked like abnormal excrescences . |
| 11 | The groups in our survey worked to make sure that we look at the needs , advice needs that they have , and that 's brought out . |
| 12 | When they finally settled in the branches of a tree there were hordes of them , so many that they looked like fruit overburdening their source ‘ ripe to be plucked . |
| 13 | They grow in clusters in woods and gardens and there are sometimes so many that they look like one huge blue carpet . |
| 14 | I saw them through The Fat Controller 's eyes — they were gauche and dowdy , crammed into suitings so ill-fitting that they looked like bolsters stuffed into pillow cases . |
| 15 | It is very important that we look at this as soon as possible . |
| 16 | And I think it 's very important that we look at what the impact of that transfer will have upon the hospital . |
| 17 | So before we proceed further it is important that we look at the units and measurement of temperature , pressure and volume . |
| 18 | Okay so erm I think it 's also very important that we look at gestures . |
| 19 | It 's important that we look at the pattern of our spending as a local authority over the past five or six years . |
| 20 | It is really important that you look upon your exercise time as an enjoyable experience . |
| 21 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |
| 22 | yeah it was Saracen that we looked at |
| 23 | Frost was so thick that it looked like newly fallen snow . |
| 24 | They meet the Keef Of Richards , a creature so alien that he looks like a superannuate chimp on heroin , who agrees ! |
| 25 | His mouth was so wide that it looked like a post-box , and gave the impression of smiling all the time . |
| 26 | I think it 's also very relevant that we look at the real threats that are facing the N H S. |
| 27 | This involves setting targets for the growth of the money supply : the approach adopted in the Thatcher government 's medium-term financial strategy of the early 1980s that we looked at in Chapter 17 . |