Example sentences of "when look [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ARGUMENTS against electoral reform look rather threadbare when looked at against the reality that our constitution has already failed to prevent ideologies of the extreme Right and Left from seizing power at both local and national levels .
2 We must look at flowers with a new intensity and from different angles for the flowers when looked at thus can themselves inspire the observer .
3 So , when looked at from the point of view of total social production , Dept .
4 The reasonable conclusion is that one and the same thing is ‘ called a sensation when considered merely in itself , and a quality when looked at in relation to any one of the numerous objects , the presence of which to our organs excites in our minds that among various other sensations or feelings .
5 An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on .
6 The metropolitan areas ( both GLC and MCCs ) consisted of strong boroughs or districts and relatively weak strategic authorities when looked at in terms of the services provided .
7 The relatively low cost of long distance inter-city bus services , combined with their comfort and strict passenger control has , for instance , made them a highly competitive force when looked at from the viewpoint of older or economy conscious passengers .
8 The figures for railways might sound encouraging , but , when looked at in detail , they fall away sharply in the subsequent two years .
9 If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 .
10 There were no differences between the two groups for any sinister electrocardiographic abnormality , as defined earlier , when looked at either individually or in combination .
11 However , it should perhaps be made clear that for most people with schizophrenia , their brains appear completely normal as far as can be made out when looked at under the microscope .
12 The seeds of herbs may be dispersed by large mammals , which eat and pass plant material in bulk : many such seeds have up until recently been considered to exhibit merely ‘ gravity ’ dispersal , when looked at in isolation from the rest of the plant .
13 And therefore the schools should remember this when looking into going for other options , which may mean there 's very little difference between them and the D S O , and the fact that th that the profits made by the D S O will be lost if they have n't got that contract , and I think that 's a very important point that they should take on , and I think a lot of schools miss out on that particular idea .
14 It must also not be forgotten that we in Britain , at least , tend to get our latitudes wrong when looking across the Atlantic .
15 He admired gnarled oak , beeches and silver birch , but occasionally he complained bitterly about bad planting , as when looking towards Langdale from near Tilberthwaite : ‘ Langdale on the right would finish the whole into a pleasant landscape , were it not for a frightful plantation of firs blotting out the pass on Wrynose . ’
16 Please bear in mind when looking through this brochure that , at the time of going to press , the Euro Disneyland Theme Park was still under construction .
17 Lorne sees best when looking through his camera viewfinder — the contents of which become his whole world .
18 When looking through windows for evidence it is often the case that the researcher only sees those types of evidence with a significance that has previously been established , and with an association that complies with existing models .
19 Actually , I was surprised when looking through some book a couple of years ago to find that players like Gray played relatively few game per season , often being injured .
20 Even though critics may not be as learned as their art-historical colleagues , there is no good reason for their practised eyes to cloud over when looking at art of other periods .
21 Price recommends all caterers to not only determine the micron thickness when looking at silver-plated cutlery , but also to ask for this to be specified on the invoice .
22 For example , what goes on when looking at , say , a Matisse in an art gallery .
23 The DTI showed ‘ lack of a sufficiently rigorous and enquiring approach ’ when looking at the activities of the investment group .
24 Working with a graduate student , Andrew Himes , Dr Simpson decided he had overestimated the number of fat neutrinos , but that he still saw them , both when repeating his work on tritium and when looking at the beta decays of sulphur .
25 Mark , who worked at investment house Foreign & Colonial , evaluates all the ideas with the same attention to the bottom line he used when looking at applications to provide venture capital .
26 However , the case of R v South Glamorgan Appeals Committee ex parte Evans ( 1984 ) showed that when looking at individual claims for a school place , it was necessary for an appeal committee to determine first whether the admission of one further child would prejudice efficient education at the school ( with the onus on the LEA to show that it would ) : if they concluded that it would not , they would have to allow the appeal .
27 ( When looking at crime trends criminologists are usually hesitant about inferring objective worsening of problems on the basis of moral panics . )
28 No such clear-cut patterns emerge when looking at the substance of their preferences : whom they had chosen to comment on , and whether they regarded them favourably or unfavourably .
29 Finally , Bobo notes that the recent popularity of Black women 's writing is one of those extra-discursive factors which must be taken into account when looking at cultural practices such as The Color Purple .
30 One department is concerned with worldwide issues ; for example , when looking at the outlook for energy , it does not feel qualified to do this type of study itself .
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