Example sentences of "[noun] looks [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 2 | Although her poetry often speaks of ill health and many times looks forward to the poet 's early death , she died of measles , a sudden illness which she was too weak to withstand . |
| 3 | BESO looks forward to developing its collaboration with TRANSAID and to making greater use of its bank of expertise , not only in transportation but also in other fields in support of TRANSAID 's objectives . |
| 4 | This chapter looks forward to the ‘ new wave ’ and the new decade , but it would be imprudent to plunge into precepts without dwelling on the departing decade of the 1980s . |
| 5 | The Services and Communication Department looks forward to playing an important part in this , perhaps starting with the communications seminar this afternoon . |
| 6 | After 18 months of illness and injury the 21-year-old flyer looks back to his best . |
| 7 | Eleanor Pitman ( Kent ) one of the first Qualified Teachers , Eleanor looks forward to spending and enjoying more time with her family . |
| 8 | As Richard looks forward to 1992 , he also thinks of two people he never met who carried donor cards and saved his life not once , but twice . |
| 9 | Lisa Stansfield looks forward to the Eighties |
| 10 | The committee looks forward to seeing you in the coming year . |
| 11 | Curran 's arrival brings the number of new signings at Scarborough this week to five as boss Ray McHale looks ahead to next season . |
| 12 | The Scottish Sports Council looks forward to assisting new Governing Bodies of Sport in the production of printed material and aims to develop still further its good working relation with existing users . |
| 13 | Bill Beaumont looks ahead to the Pilkington Cup final |
| 14 | While Moses looks forward to the ‘ good ’ to come , their minds are fixed on the ‘ evil ’ of the present . |
| 15 | Wordsworth looks forward to an ideal Welfare State where all are entitled to ‘ maintenance by law ’ feeling of degradation . |
| 16 | ( The move from Aigai to the more central Pella looks forward to hellenistic times : cp. p. 211 ; also p. 48 on the way Sicily too simultaneously shows ‘ archaic ’ and ‘ hellenistic ’ features . |
| 17 | British qualifications in public health medicine fully meet the requirements of the directives and the faculty looks forward to a time when the specialty will be formally recognised in all member states and not only in Britain , France , and Ireland . |
| 18 | John Ley looks forward to an international showpiece in which opening and closing ceremonies could rival the main event |
| 19 | Still , the two parties have moved towards the round-table talks that both want — although the government calls them a multi-party conference , whereas the ANC looks forward to an all-party congress , to be followed eventually by an elected constituent assembly . |
| 20 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 21 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 22 | The views of both managers coming up as Mark Kiff looks forward to D-Day . |
| 23 | Campaign TV John Dugdale looks forward to the night of the swingometer |
| 24 | There seems nothing in the present arrangements to prevent two similarly disabled old people being in adjacent rooms in a nursing home , one of whom has her lifetime earnings bled down by ‘ community care ’ while the family of the other looks forward to an undiminished inheritance courtesy of the NHS . |
| 25 | Graham Hamilton looks ahead to the new hockey season |
| 26 | Indeed the Director of Kenya 's Institute of Education looks forward to a time when a syllabus may be devised which , in addition to a national ‘ core ’ , has specific defined areas where programmes devised at district or local levels will be developed and implemented . |
| 27 | ‘ You know how Gran looks forward to seeing us . |
| 28 | For example , when Lok looks across to the island in the burgeoning spring , a narratorial simile compares the haze of early spring buds to smoke : " there were buds everywhere on the island too , drifts of them like clouds of bright green smoke " ( p. 101 ) . |
| 29 | A 97 year old woman looks back to pre-First World War Vienna and an extraordinary life , even if a fair amount of it is fabricated . |
| 30 | Brian looks forward to a fresh challenge |