Example sentences of "[conj] look [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are actually sort of writing er , say if you are , when you are doing your project or doing your work it 's not just sufficient to say always T ratio is greater than two , therefore , it 's statistically significant , you must calculate the er correct critical value you use , right , for th for each T ratio and also if you are looking at any diagnostics or looking at the significance of the regression which is an F statistic right you must give the five percent or ten percent whichever you choose . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) attitudes towards the nature of representation , ( 2 ) behaviour within council groups , ( 3 ) preference for governing the city as a whole or looking after the interests of a ward , ( 1 ) preference for dealing with general policy issues or with individual problems , ( 5 ) preference for specialisms in one aspect of council work or generalizing over them all , and ( 6 ) attitudes towards the involvement of community organisations in the government of the city ( Newton 1976a:114 ) . |
| 3 | I had met him every day of my life in England : punching my ticket on a ‘ bus , cutting my hair , selling me an evening newspaper or looking after the engine of my aeroplane . |
| 4 | We can picture their relationships in a way that looks like the beginning of a branching hierarchy : |
| 5 | It rose to its highest point of 5.4 per cent in 1984 , falling back again to 4.7 per cent in 1988 , and with a threat of a further decline to the lowest point since the Second World War of 4.4 per cent in 1989 — despite all the Conservative Party 's claims to be the party that looks after the defence of the realm . |
| 6 | Acting for a seller of leasehold property , it may be that your client , as lessee , for instance , of a flat in a large block , holds a share in a management company that looks after the maintenance of the building , etc ( see Chapter 12 on leases ) . |
| 7 | ‘ She wanted to be doing things like playing on her home computer rather than looking after the rest of the family . |
| 8 | ( 9 ) An evidence questioning question questions that look at the veracity of the evidence , e.g. " On what do you think the weavers of the tapestry based their picture ? " |
| 9 | He had seen that look on the faces of mother ducks when they took their little flock down to the river for the first time . |
| 10 | Oh , I 've seen that look on the faces of People before . |
| 11 | Yeah except look at the pair of you look at the pair of you singing these I mean look at these songs you 're singing this is ridiculous . |
| 12 | The idea of confidence runs thus : Rather than look at the probability of getting this precise result , we find the probability of getting a less likely observed result . |
| 13 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |
| 14 | He was requested by Prime Minister James Callaghan to head a commission that looked into the future of the engineering profession in Britain , which kept him occupied for two and a half years . |
| 15 | We were hastily dismissed and only then did the staff realise the problems caused by 984 pupils searching for shoes , bags and coats in school corridors that looked like the after-effects of an explosion in an Oxfam shop . |
| 16 | She was wearing something lime-green and minuscule , with silver sandals adorning bare legs that looked like the stems of a slender plant . |
| 17 | Ace half turned back to the shuttle , pointed towards the sprouting hemisphere ( like chunks of cheddar stuck all over half a grapefruit , she thought ) , and aimed the suit towards the shape that looked like the nose of an asteroid cruncher . |
| 18 | Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer . |
| 19 | The sociolinguistic approach to peer communication records naturalistic dialogue and looks at the structure of conversation in terms of maintaining discourse effectively ( Garvey , 1984 ; McTear , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | She examines the connection between the curriculum and the deviance of boy and girl pupils and looks at the possibilities of combating sexist curricula . |
| 21 | The chapter goes on to outline the main purchase types , and looks at the importance of contract markets in many industrial buying situations . |
| 22 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |
| 23 | At the sides the cathedral is built of red brick and looks like the headquarters of some great insurance company before computers replaced clerks . |
| 24 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 25 | She examined her hands , white with chalk , as if looking for the source of some small pain , then gave up on that and began to dust herself down . |
| 26 | And looking at the glow of restrained excitement in the other actor 's face , Charles knew that Alex Household thought he was about to get his part back . |
| 27 | That would be a little bit of a problem for Frank Clarke if er Cooper has got a problem with his shoulder you know if it 's if it 's serious because looking at his people on his bench you know Neil Webb and Crosby and looking at the make-up of his team he has n't really got anybody he could slot back in there unless he put er Rozario in there . |
| 28 | And , perhaps going back a bit and looking at the history of the last ten years , it is important to realize that we have developed small centres as well as large ones . |
| 29 | I remember a man coming up to me at Sandhurst and looking at the back of my hair and saying , ‘ What regiment are you going into ? ’ and I said ‘ The Grenadiers , ’ and he said ‘ You appear to be growing your own bear skin . ’ |
| 30 | So you would feel probably the best mechanism would be the appointment of somebody who is given that responsibility and solely that responsibility of reporting and looking after the interest of the deferred pensioners . |