Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] look [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading . |
| 2 | To take on the responsibility of looking after a frightened and disorientated family of five , who speak not a single word of English , would be an overwhelming chore for the most seasoned carer . |
| 3 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 4 | The pleasures and rewards of looking after a loved one can be immense . |
| 5 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 6 | These preliminary results suggest the desirability of looking beyond the female labour market for an adequate characterization of economic influences on fertility . |
| 7 | People who devote their lives to looking after an elderly or disabled relative or friend are again demanding more support from the government . |
| 8 | Let's continue this look at the marine aquarium scene by looking at the latest thinking regarding the nutritional requirements of marine fish . |
| 9 | It addresses this issue by looking at a large body of empirical evidence , specifically at examples of the relations between adjectives and other words in their phrases or sentences ( these other words by no means always being nouns or noun phrases ) . |
| 10 | It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar . |
| 11 | To use a single but important example , it is the difference between looking at the Great War as an event which centred around the policies and machinations of politicians and generals , or one which impinged upon the lives of ordinary people . |
| 12 | You usually look at that person , and when you coming to the end of your your your speel , you sort of look at the one person . |
| 13 | Erm ah , now that erm I think I was reasonably happy most of the time , erm I know if I can sort of look at the other side of the coin erm , I became a bit apprehensive as the war went on and er , obviously it was n't going to last much longer . |
| 14 | You want to sort of look at the whole picture together . |
| 15 | looks after , I , I 'm not sure exactly what he does , but he does sort of look after the Welsh Office 's own traffic counting programme . |
| 16 | Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside . |
| 17 | As one observer noted , there is a need to develop democratic practice in the classroom as well as outside it , if people 's education is not to become simply ‘ a process of looking for a new set of right answers ’ . |
| 18 | He is also in the process of looking for a joint venture production partner who would be interested in taking a 49 per cent stake in MTM . |
| 19 | He is also in the process of looking for a joint venture production partner who would be interested in taking a 49 per cent stake in MTM . |
| 20 | There is a joy in looking for the kindly and generous action in the daily round ; a kindly smile from some ordinary person whose responses have not been blighted by desire or greed or envy . |
| 21 | He walked down the hill without looking at the dead men , slowly and with difficulty and pain . |
| 22 | But while the British media 's account of World Cup preparations in Italy has been dominated by the prospect of violence , British domestic youth culture has primed itself for other possibilities by looking to the Latin-influenced culture of spectatorship and style . |
| 23 | You can tell whether a text you have is a critical or a popular edition by looking at the following features : — Does it have a note on the text , explaining spelling conventions used , etc. ? — Does it have an introduction by an editor ? — Does it have footnotes or endnotes ? — Is it a numbered part of a multi-volume edition ? |
| 24 | Managers are required to put down a small security deposit , but all equipment is provided by the company , which also pays staff wages and overhead expenses , together with a small additional honorarium ( currently 5 per cent of husband 's salary ) to the manager 's wife for looking after the domestic accommodation . |
| 25 | However , where a term of a contract is unclear , is capable of having more than one meaning , or is specific to a particular trade or market , there is considerable scope for looking at the factual background or " matrix " known to the parties , in order to clarify how it should be applied . |
| 26 | A visit to a country house for instance will probably include reference to some of the social groups and classes of the period under study ( upstairs/downstairs , the estate workers , the craft or factory workers who produced many of the goods seen in the house ) ; the role of the gentry as leaders and rulers of their society can be covered ; there will be ample scope for looking at the economic and technological aspects of life in the period , especially if the house is related to its setting and the surrounding estate and countryside that supported it ; finally there will be objects or rooms in the house which relate to cultural or religious life in the period . |
| 27 | The modern trend in medicine — like the ancient biblical view — is to see human beings as whole people , recognizing that it is bad practice to treat separate parts of a person without looking at the total man or woman . |
| 28 | Midland 's expertise in looking after the financial side of your family 's welfare . |
| 29 | Making money from looking after the elderly has never been more difficult . |
| 30 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |