Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be look [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 2 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 3 | For three and a half years the Beeson Ward at Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has been looking after elderly people — those who need specialist care after major surgery . |
| 4 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 5 | All we have the right to do is look at these names and if anyone or two are unsuitable , we will say so , ’ he told Channel 4 News on Thursday . |
| 6 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 7 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 8 | ‘ The traditional techniques have been to look at these under high power microscopes ’ . |
| 9 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 10 | Although the virus has now disappeared , RSPCA staff have been looking after orphaned pups , seals damaged by fishing nets and victims of gales , as well as treating a variety of birds . |
| 11 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 12 | Social scientists have been looking at extra-marital sexual patterns to understand why it is some men and women have affairs and others do n't . |
| 13 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 14 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 15 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |