Example sentences of "[prep] looking [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I first got the idea of the crocheted styles after looking at a piece of fabric and thinking : ‘ I could do that with hair . ’
2 A sentry let us in after looking at the Feldwebel s papers with a torch and we walked up a garden path towards a sort of suburban villa .
3 Later , after looking at the rest of the house , they returned to Edouard 's study on the first floor .
4 ‘ However , after looking at the still pictures I realised that Gerrard and Obolensky were in excellent positions for the pass to the right .
5 I shall return to this after looking at the other two models ( see pp. 46 – 48 ) .
6 One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers .
7 After looking in a drawer , he handed the passport back .
8 Next morning Sophie set off for Seabourne , and , after looking in the pet shop window , she went inside and strolled around .
9 Is he out looking for the bastards who stole my father ? ’
10 If you are working , then how about looking for a job that pays more or a job that pays the same but reduces your travelling costs ?
11 I did n't think you 'd be that stupid , but I was curious enough to consent when Jones brought your name up with Giles Estwick when we started thinking about looking for a new programme manager six months ago . ’
12 She heard him fumbling about looking for the lamp switch and then he found it .
13 We thought we had an enormous pile but unfortunately our fire was not very long lasting and by 6 o'clock we were wandering about looking at the other , more professionally built conflagrations .
14 Next time a stranger tries to stop you in the street , perhaps you should think twice about looking at the pavement and brushing past .
15 well the , I think these people who concern themselves very much about dictating the do 's and do n't of fox hunting , if they were to spend a little more time about looking into the research of , how foxes actually live .
16 I think they 're being selfish , they 've had their careers , so how about looking after the children and home , and giving youngsters a chance !
17 It is difficult to understand how the Government can claim to be concerned about looking after the welfare of citizens when there has been a fourfold increase in the incidence of food poisoning in the past 10 years .
18 That is one reason for looking at a certain objection , that our conception of such connection is not fundamental to , or pervasive in , a certain body of knowledge and speculation , one which must have some pride of place in any informed view of reality .
19 You 're asked to support the general move , that we have set out from this report , and you 're asked to agree to St Clements and East Ward , and I think we 've heard Mandy and Phil acknowledge that there may well be a case for looking at an area of council housing , which we will leave them to do , and also to approve the set of objectives , which I particularly welcome , on page sixty-two and sixty-three , which will amount to a work programme , which I would have thought we were all very pleased to see .
20 We may not all want to be ‘ artists ’ , producing and performing work , but arts events can provide another accessible route for looking at the world in relation to disabled people .
21 have n't got the mechanism for looking at the BES er scale in in the timescale we were looking at .
22 ‘ Having twins as characters was a device for looking at the very silly phrase ‘ having it all ’ : it was a way of signalling this division within us .
23 The long-lived alien 's point of view is the right one for looking at the plausibility of a theory like Cairns-Smith 's or the primeval-soup theory .
24 Instead , Robson settles for looking at the League table .
25 I have another eyepiece on the end which is suitable for looking at the stars and planets .
26 This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it .
27 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 .
28 " There were no people studying these animals , no facilities for looking at the carcasses , for establishing the cause of death .
29 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 .
30 The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right .
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