Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] look [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet even within such an order there are enough complexities of signals , of a different kind — the ‘ command performance ’ , in honour of the already honoured ; the ‘ private view ’ — who has been invited to look in this privileged way ? ; the ‘ special performance ’ , for an audience of a socially selected type — to remind us of the always variable — historically and culturally variable-social organization and social function of art . |
| 2 | Each business area now has its own quality improvement manager , a Quality Strategy Group has been appointged to look at long-term policy making , and corrective action teams are busily at work . |
| 3 | Within ten days , a special prosecutor had been appointed to look into criminal misconduct . |
| 4 | The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had , in this case , been neglectful , and Charlie was looking , though that he did not know , where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began . |
| 5 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 6 | Council officers have been instructed to look at new ways of increasing access to town for disabled motorists . |