Example sentences of "to look [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't dare raise her head to look through the window in case she was spotted , but at least from here she could make a fair guess at where Adam and the stranger were located in the room . |
| 2 | One evening Friday went out to look for a turtle for meat and eggs . |
| 3 | You had to look for a pairing between murderer and victim . |
| 4 | been trying to look for a bit of paper and I opened a book today and found it ! |
| 5 | He had been dreading having to look for a place for lunch . |
| 6 | HWIM 's solution was to look for a number of best-scoring seed words bottom-up and then to predict possible extensions ( words or word classes ) at either end of the seed word . |
| 7 | Then there were Heather and Katie , inseparable friends , who bolstered each other by their mutual devotion ; never had they known a Moment 's shame of friendlessness , never had they had to look for a partner in dancing or in gym , never had they walked alone from classroom to classroom , and their confidence overflowed and imposed itself upon all beholders . |
| 8 | If one wants to look for the origins of conflict in modern America , one could do worse than line up the eighteenth-century Puritans against the Enlightenment men : say , Jonathan Edwards ( 1703–1758 ) , Samuel Davies ( 1723–1761 ) and Timothy Dwight ( 1752–1817 ) versus Benjamin Franklin ( 1706–1790 ) , Thomas Jefferson ( 1743–1826 ) , Thomas Paine ( 1737–1809 ) and James Madison ( 1751–1836 ) . |
| 9 | A herd of cattle may seem an odd place to look for the meaning of life but it fits neatly with current American pop- psychology : no doubt these urban liberals have packed copies of Robert Bly 's ‘ Iron Jack ’ in their saddlebags . |
| 10 | Now what happens in the mantle is extremely important , because it is in the mantle that we have to look for the mechanism behind Plate Tectonics . |
| 11 | In other words , if you want to explain social phenomena , you got to look for the explanations in society . |
| 12 | But I submit that it might be wise to look for an interpretation of quantum mechanics which comes as near as possible to being in accord with the attitude so widespread among its users . |
| 13 | I have ignored such central and prestigious characters in the drama is professor Wold of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , who is seeking to perfect a cheap , early diagnostic test for trisomy 21 during pregnancy on the interesting grounds that it costs £500,000 ( not accounting for inflation ) to look after a person with trisomy 21 for life . |
| 14 | The result was a system in which the government never changed hands , but instead was carried out by those who could be trusted to look after the affairs of state . |
| 15 | But , though Nonni was willing to look after the babies for part of the day , even the dullest of part-time jobs was not easy to find . |
| 16 | We will examine and discuss each of these patterns in this chapter , and in doing so will aim to look behind the picture of crime and criminals provided by criminal statistics . |
| 17 | ‘ The funniest request I have had so far is for a birthday cake which is made to look like a plate of steak and chips with cutlery on a tabletop setting . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I longed to set the record straight , but Peter was desperate not to look like a failure in front of you . |
| 19 | Rather than only training women to take on roles that have been shaped by men over the centuries , would it not be far more interesting , more expansive , to look into the questions of priestesshood , to find out what mystery it is that women can touch on , and how they can communicate it to the human world ? |
| 20 | The other thing there is the evidence from the Law Society in England to the committee appointed by the government to look into the question of press self-regulation which has quite a lot to do obviously with privacy for everybody , but also |
| 21 | Yes , we set up a unit affiliated to the University of Salzburg to look into the question of stress in music-making ; and also the influence of music on the mind and the body , of healthy people and sick people . |
| 22 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
| 23 | After countless such visits he was afraid to look into the bowl in case something of himself had been lost in his body 's writhing struggles to empty itself . |
| 24 | The authorities promised to look into the complaints in order to defuse the situation . |
| 25 | On 19 February 1804 Brigadier Engineer Reynaldo Oudinot , a Frenchman who had taken Portuguese nationality , arrived in Funchal to look into the problems of flooding in the city . |
| 26 | We have a working party to look into the problem of substance abuse . |
| 27 | This can be seen in : ( 211 ) Have I not bidden you never to look upon the face of woman ? |
| 28 | When you ‘ look ’ with sound you may discern things not visible with light or electron beams ; it is even possible to look inside a piece of material , whether a living cell , a printed circuit or a block of metal . |
| 29 | You just have to look round a lot of trophy cabinets and you can see a lot of locally sponsored cups and trophies in there . |
| 30 | But it is not possible to look beyond the world in order to see what it depends upon directly . |