Example sentences of "look [adv] to the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The division between those who look naturally to the private sector and those who look to the public is geographical as much as ideological . |
| 2 | The Sicilian tyrants also look backwards to the archaic age of mainland Greece : Gelon 's appeal to the Syracusan populace is demagogy of a kind that recalls Pisistratus , as does Dionysius ' demand for a bodyguard . |
| 3 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 4 | They look up to the English players and try to copy them as they feel that is the right way to behave . |
| 5 | Today this city-state is a pleasant mixture of Chinese , Malay and Indian cultures — temples and mosques fight for airspace with skyscrapers , and wide tree-lined avenues with gracious colonial buildings look out to the sparkling sea . |
| 6 | I think secondly erm whichever country , and you do look back to your roots , and we for better or for worse here look back to the great public school headmaster of a century ago and I still think people want that kind of dynamic drive , that entrepreneurial drive , and who 's to say they 're wrong ? |
| 7 | If we look back to the middle years of the nineteenth century and to the debates about the extension of the franchise to the working class then hopes were expressed as to how voters should behave at the same time as there was anxiety and fear as to how they would actually behave . |
| 8 | They always look back to the old smokestack industries . |
| 9 | I look forward to the post-match analysis of the Leeds match . |
| 10 | Mr. Walker : I do not blame the Hon. Gentleman for making such a speech just before a by-election , but I am glad to tell him that tomorrow I shall go through every detail of the valleys programme and I look forward to the Labour party 's publishing beside each item what the Labour Government achieved in their last five years . |
| 11 | We look forward to the close co-operation of everyone in maintaining them . |
| 12 | Luigi Pellizari , General Manager of Lotto UK commented , ‘ With a player of Martina 's calibre now wearing Lotto clothing and footwear , we look forward to the continued success of the brand worldwide ’ . |
| 13 | I look forward to the Prime Minister being present that day — but , of course , by then it will be a Labour Prime Minister . |
| 14 | ‘ I look forward to the branded Share Shop identity enduring beyond the offer and becoming a recognised symbol for accessible and affordable advisory and dealing services . ’ |
| 15 | The weekend should have been the danger period , not a Tuesday , a nothing day of the week when nobody did anything other than look back wistfully on the pleasures behind them and look forward to the unformed pleasures ahead . |
| 16 | ‘ We now look forward to the main course this evening . ’ |
| 17 | As we look forward to the big event , let's take a look at how Christmas was celebrated long ago , before we were even born . |