Example sentences of "[noun sg] looks [prep] [being] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The firms ' budget looks like being 12 or 13 times bigger than that of its European imitators . |
2 | Yellow looks like being this year 's colour — the banana does not seem to be able to stay out of the headlines . |
3 | Star pup The danger looks like being Middlesbrough-based I 'm Sloppy , which was third in the 631 open . |
4 | Calvert 's Ruffside Rock , which has also impressed at Sunderland , has been drawn in trap one for the March Puppy Stakes , over 460 metres , and the danger looks like being Shawfield-based wind runner Cocoa Powder , out of trap four . |
5 | Basque pelota looks like being this year 's corker as it involves catching a tennis ball in a fruit bowl and throwing it at a wall ( below left ) . |
6 | The main threat to the southern raider looks like being Irish import Black Parachute . |
7 | The main local interest looks like being New Marske-based Tom Farrell 's open racer In The Secret , which clocked a useful 36.98 secs winning a three-dog 580 metres trial by 6 7 lengths at Sunderland , finishing very strongly . |