Example sentences of "looked to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men 's final began in truly exciting style with an abundance of winning shots on both sides and looked to be a most promising match until play had to be suspended at 3–2 . |
| 2 | Two minutes later Leota was seen at his exciting best when he made a midfield break from 45 yards which took him clean through the Rovers defence , and when Taewa scored his second try in the 72nd minute Rovers looked to be subsiding fast . |
| 3 | Between them , they have solved the problem of finding a role for an institution which a few decades ago looked to be under siege . |
| 4 | But the RYA was always more likely to plump for a more conventional design and building set-up , and four boats at Rutland Water looked to be in the frame . |
| 5 | At Harrods , Gardiner looked to be rowing a little short forward and Cambridge shot Hammersmith Bridge possibly a few feet ahead . |
| 6 | The South Africans , who had won the toss , looked to be suffering from nerves in the early overs . |
| 7 | Mr Major achieved one of the most remarkable comebacks in modern politics to lead the Tories to what looked to be a narrow overall majority . |
| 8 | A second inventory was then ordered to see if anything else had gone missing , and Mme Huyghe 's disgrace looked to be complete . |
| 9 | They led through a Steve Fulton goal at half-time and looked to be cruising when Charlie Nicholas struck a second a minute after the interval . |
| 10 | Barcelona looked to be comfortably on the Wembley Way when , 11 minutes later , Eusebio fed Stoichkov on the left and the Bulgarian cut the ball back from the by-line for Bakero to score . |
| 11 | Muhtarram , who finished fourth , looked to be travelling well at the three-furlong marker but had no answer to the first two when the pressure was applied . |
| 12 | The train passed over huge bridges that looked to be made of matchsticks . |
| 13 | ‘ Me grandfather , aye , I can remember me grandad ’ , a Durham railwayman 's son recalled , ‘ A very old man he looked to be with long white whiskers . |
| 14 | At the time , we had just published Hospitals : A Suitable Case for Treatment and the New End looked to be a typical example of a wasted opportunity . |
| 15 | Most of them looked to be students , but in a month we never managed a longer conversation than ‘ Hi ! |
| 16 | Baker-Finch had slipped off the leaderboard , and Watson looked to be in big trouble with his drive at the 12th . |
| 17 | His whole buying policy looked to be a failure . |
| 18 | They adapted well to the conditions in the end but at half-time the found the Emerging Wallabies leading by 21–4 and they looked to be heading for a big win . |
| 19 | Plymouth looked to be cruising to victory when striker Dwight Marshall made up for an early miss with two goals in three minutes in the first half of this tie . |
| 20 | And after Pearce 's drop goal in the 33rd minute , Wales looked to be coasting to an easy victory . |
| 21 | The six-year-old was clearly in need of the race on his debut at Worcester — he looked to be travelling well with three to jump , but tired quickly . |
| 22 | Feeling some shyness — he was not used to social life , and this looked to be above his station — he used the brass knocker , polished as it was to show one 's face , distorted , as though in a mirror at a fair . |
| 23 | She was also estranged from her only child Nicolas , from her marriage to Charrier , and looked to be facing a lonely old age . |
| 24 | And when Eagles ' David Mycoe grabbed a try in the 45th minute Wigan looked to be in some danger . |
| 25 | And Gallagher 's three goals looked to be providing Leeds with a huge payday at Headingley … until Ropati struck . |
| 26 | His evidence for fusion neutrons consisted of what to the eye looked to be only a moderate increase of neutrons in a small range of energy , though admittedly in the right region to be from fusion . |
| 27 | But she had to battle for a York neck victory from Satank and trainer Jack Berry said : ‘ She ran well , but looked to be going over the top . |
| 28 | Allan Lamb looked to be guiding England through with a gutsy 55 before popping a catch to wicketkeeper Moin Khan . |
| 29 | Bishop looked to be held on the line by two Trinity forwards but wriggled like an eel to get free and touch down . |
| 30 | He looked to be in his early-to-mid-fifties , and was running to fat , and when he took off his topee it was to wipe the sweat from a pink , bald head . |