Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] look at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sat on the train and could see other commuters walking past looking at the man in horror . |
| 2 | The more opportunities he/she has of looking at the illustrations and reading the captions with you , the more he/she will come to recognise the words . |
| 3 | This has to be approached by looking at the expert clause and other instructions given to the expert . |
| 4 | This chapter starts by looking at the issue of control and discipline , and the related skills of questioning and reflection . |
| 5 | Beccaria starts by looking at the justification of the right to punish ; he concludes that it is to be found in the social contract whose central tenet he declares to be ‘ the greatest happiness of the greatest number ’ ( it is possible that he is responsible for originating this particular cliché ) . |
| 6 | It analyses the problem of marketing to multi-individual buying structures , and concludes by looking at the applications of industrial purchase behaviour models . |
| 7 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 8 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 9 | This was done by looking at the spectrum of laser light scattered off the electrons in the plasma . |
| 10 | In many cases the question will be answered by looking at the terms of the contract between the parties although a description of the parties as " employer " and " employee " is not conclusive . |
| 11 | Arthur Conway turned from looking at the man to Agnes as she quickly explained what she had sold the customer . |
| 12 | It has also helped in looking at the functions of the business in outline . |
| 13 | More reactive metals are more abundant in the earth 's crust as one can see by looking at the grass . |
| 14 | Let us begin by looking at the word ‘ around ’ , where the stress always falls clearly on the last syllable and the first syllable is weak . |
| 15 | As we are particularly interested in the influences on women who choose science , we shall begin by looking at the women 's experiences of single-sex education . |
| 16 | What this entailed for civil liberties may be gleaned by looking at the way in which Dicey dealt with traditional freedoms in the body of his work . |
| 17 | In trying to understand its other functions we shall be helped by looking at the Bank 's balance sheet as set out in Table 3.2 . |
| 18 | in theory they should not be able to talk to each-other because they 're either answering the phone and talking to somebody else bloody getting on looking at the screen and typing |
| 19 | The net effects are best demonstrated by looking at the population . |
| 20 | Yet as we unbend from looking at the grass |
| 21 | The remainder of the meeting was spent in looking at the Grid on which visitors envisaged were placed with Regions for Primary ( ten days to a fortnight ) or Secondary ( 5-7 days ) periods . |
| 22 | More than we can gain from looking at the grade and the stage . |
| 23 | " Obvious " has no special meaning but is judged by looking at the invention as a whole and considering the entire state of the art . |
| 24 | An additional measure of glycaemic control was provided by looking at the mean of all the glycated haemoglobin results for each patient since the date of randomisation and then calculating the mean of means for each group . |
| 25 | I started by looking at the chromosome patterns , of course — remember the men who are born with an extra Y chromosome , who show aggressive behavior and antisocial tendencies . |
| 26 | Instead , Robson settles for looking at the League table . |
| 27 | None of them thought of looking at the ricks . |
| 28 | She thought of looking at the doctor and indicating that he should interfere and stop it ; but she did not . |
| 29 | One outcome of the Cotswolds summit will be a paper responding to the ideas of the 15 task forces charged with looking at the BBC 's future . |
| 30 | The roads and the settlements are there all right , as you can tell from looking at the map , but many of the people are not ; they have left this blessed landscape for the towns , for Tarbes or for Toulouse . |