Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not look up . |
| 2 | Do not look back . |
| 3 | Clearly , they do not look the same length ; and clearly the child 's thought is focused on the tips ( ‘ centrated on ’ in the jargon ) . |
| 4 | If we stick with 15 per cent rates until the Budget , the prospects for positive growth in the economy do not look too good . ’ |
| 5 | The 1989 Kiwis do not look a patch on their predecessors . |
| 6 | The message from brokers is apply for shares , but do not look to hold them for the long term . |
| 7 | Among the ‘ lower caste ’ people , the woman 's role had always been rather different from her role in the farming castes ; now ‘ lower caste ’ women worked increasingly in the fields alongside the men and this led , according to Mamdani , to ‘ a radical change … in the attitude towards girl children … low caste families do not look upon the birth of a girl with the disfavour they used to ’ — though ‘ to a certain extent the disfavour persists because the girl will marry and emigrate precisely when she has reached the age of greatest productivity ’ . |
| 8 | Do not look on these pages for lightweight and health-conscious confections . |
| 9 | A ND you resist all eye contact , remembering the words of barrister Caradog Morgan who earlier this year , in defending one Victoria Carrington , freelance insurance consultant accused of assaulting two fellow passengers because they had joggled her newspaper and dared to look at her right in the face , said , ‘ There is a convention on the Underground that people do not look each other in the eye . ’ |
| 10 | You do not look so well either . ’ |
| 11 | After all , most women do not look like cover girls , and the Jewish woman is free to be beautiful in an inner way , not as a clone of an advertisement . |
| 12 | Do not look to internal , mental explanations . |
| 13 | ‘ You do not look it . |
| 14 | So do not look for us coming Lily but think rather of you coming home if you have a mind . |
| 15 | Strangely , they do not look out of place or incongruous and in the context of Czech commodities , the sophistication of their design is immediately apparent . |
| 16 | But do not look here for specific advice . |
| 17 | ‘ These are encouraging signs that the message is being heard in the East , ’ he says , ‘ but this is a race against time and the odds of winning do not look favourable . ’ |
| 18 | Great care must be taken to ensure that the line of palms do not look like some modern Forestry Commission plantation . |
| 19 | Librarians who think this way , and who dispose of books by the skipful because they do not look appealing enough for ‘ face-on ’ display , have the excuse that almost all publishers regard the dust-jacket as the main way of selling a book . |
| 20 | You do not look at motivations , feelings or even attitudes . |
| 21 | It has been observed that two out of three fiction readers in libraries do not look at the text of a book before choosing it . |
| 22 | There are culturally determined practices related to eye contact , for example certain aborigines , to be polite , do not look into each other 's eyes as they talk , whereas in the Western world it is polite to maintain eye contact during conversation . |
| 23 | You almost never find all the symptoms of the case in a remedy picture and you will never find all the symptoms of a remedy in the disease picture of the case , so do not look for it or try to fit it all in . |
| 24 | There is a law in physics , identified by Isaac Newton , which says in essence that everything falls apart without energy : if you do not maintain your house , it will fall down ; if you do not look after your business , it will fall apart . |
| 25 | Already the signs for Culham winning NET do not look good . |
| 26 | The question mark over the reactor protection system is one of a queue of unresolved issues which now do not look like being settled before the public inquiry ends in the autumn . |
| 27 | Donald Unwin , chief engineer at the association 's Testing and Research Laboratory , said ‘ Many manufacturers just do not look at the problem through the eyes of the Third World countries . |
| 28 | The economics of producing oil from coal ‘ do not look attractive and will possibly delay its introduction in the UK until the second or third decade in the next century . ’ |
| 29 | However , although home-grown plants do not look like their parents they retain the chemical characteristics . |
| 30 | When picking something up from the floor , stand slightly in front and to the side of the object ; then , keeping the head upright , bend the knee and , still looking forward , pick up the object by feel ; do not look down . |