Example sentences of "look [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objective to funding from the old objective programme is we 've now learnt that we 've been successful in getting a grant made towards the Centre feasibility study , Shropshire welcomes Japan television advertisement on the Japanese , Japan area , towards the pipeworks promotion and the fly-drive marketing initiative because , er , to get people from North America into the marches and staying here , so it looks as those projects will be almost fifty percent funded from Europe to objective two . |
| 2 | Had I been asked to imagine myself as I would have looked during that time , you can be sure that I would have had the beautiful gown , the ruffled frill and the bejewelled fingers of a lady . |
| 3 | Neil , Neil now says , that when he meets a girl , he , he waits to see if she 's got any characteristics in common with the dreadful Vicky , the girl that he eventually fetch her much deserved slosh on the chops and was pulled into Ipswich Magistrates Court , you know , oh I should n't laugh , but erm , he says he looks for those characteristics , and the moment he sees that the girl is going to be this sort of neurotic , excitable , hysterical creature he walks away . |
| 4 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 5 | Firdaus is so stung by this that she looks for another job . |
| 6 | The male then looks for another mate and he may escort as many as five females through the nest . |
| 7 | Growth is once again the watchword as the country looks for another period of expansion in higher education . |
| 8 | We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent . |
| 9 | I had not looked through those volumes for many years , until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more . |
| 10 | Staff are required to speak English and the children are looked after all day . |
| 11 | Keener has looked after all Nigel Kennedy 's recordings except the first ( the Elgar Sonata for Chandos ) including the recent Brahms Violin Concerto for EMI . |
| 12 | The minister was well looked after those days to . |
| 13 | Unless procedures change , it looks like that money too will be argued over at length , with only lawyers and accountants seeing any of it going into their own pockets . |
| 14 | It looks like that $50,000-a-seat ACE Executive Advisory Board organised back in January ( UX No 370 ) , is headed for the dumpster . |
| 15 | Looks like that chap in er erm |
| 16 | Now , I ask you , me bein' interested in somebody , a woman who looks like that bairn upstairs … |
| 17 | Looks like another christening . |
| 18 | Yeah you can s you can imagine walking round here for fourteen months , and then one w one back of one walkway looks like another walkway . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's the season of goodwill to all mankind but its looks like this man had had enough of womankind , ’ added PC Weal who ordered them a taxi . |
| 20 | The kitchen looks like any other to be found in an establishment catering for large numbers . |
| 21 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ It looks like some kind of begging-letter . |
| 23 | The distribution of life expectancy across countries is not symmetrical : the lower half of the distribution is more spread out than the upper half ( figure 11.7 ) ; many countries are pushing up against what looks like some kind of a ceiling of around seventy-seven years , while some poorer countries trail down in the forties and two countries ( Sierra Leone and Guinea ) even and leaf display of raw data register a staggering thirty-eight years . |
| 24 | ‘ Looks like some kind of a machine , ’ he admitted , fumbling for levers without taking his eyes off the screen . |
| 25 | Pat 's all right , look at him , he looks like some sort of Irish hero , and he 's writing yards of poetry . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It certainly looks like some sort of allergy or chemical reaction , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It looks like some people going into the park lately . |
| 28 | Normally , these bubbles ( or vesicles ) are only a few millimetres across and quite thinly scattered , but sometimes , if the lava has been particularly gas rich , the rock is so honeycombed with large bubbles that it looks like some kinds of Swiss cheese ; more holes than solid . |
| 29 | A line of pikemen must have looked like some kind of rampaging porcupine . ’ |
| 30 | Baby had looked like this doll , as though nearly real , yet not quite , with a waxy pale skin , yellow-tinged , bright glassy eyes and a dainty pink mouth . |