Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to look at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 2 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 3 | To set the ticket price , the agent has to look at what is happening in the industry , what an average ticket price is , and what the touring artist is worth as an attraction . |
| 4 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 5 | The Central Electricity Generating Board ( now privatized and split into two companies ) is funding a large-scale , 2-year project to assess links to childhood cancer , while another recently announced study aims to look at links to sudden infant death . |
| 6 | This small-scale study aims to look at the impacts of deregulation of passenger transport in the United States and to examine the way that transport suppliers have responded to the new environment . |
| 7 | The recession has exacerbated this problem to such an extent that the Metropolitan Police has a Fraud Squad division detailed to look at the issue . |
| 8 | The most recent , and it 's quite exciting , is to use magnetic resonance imaging to look at erm nuclei in the body and to see what they 're doing and where they are , and that 's going to be very exciting but it involves having a very very large magnet in which one puts a whole patient all at once . |
| 9 | It was about all a nome had to look at , most of the time . |
| 10 | The thought of Reni sending any sort of word to him amused Huy ; but the boy continued to look at him seriously . |
| 11 | His Mum turned to look at the car that had crushed the arrow bits . |
| 12 | Holly seemed to look at him as if the matter of a fire that destroyed the office of the Commandant was neither of occasion nor note . |
| 13 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |
| 14 | The British engineer tends to look at something and knock it down . |
| 15 | The family proceedings court has to look at the Welfare Checklist ( section 1 , 1989 Children Act ) and , as the writers say , the conflict between the child 's welfare being paramount and the need to protect the community present a real paradox . |
| 16 | He did not for a while want to look at his own face . |
| 17 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake to look at the question afresh , please ? |
| 18 | The big shaggy head turned to look at me . |
| 19 | Moving from the broad elements of communication to the particular , I have for the purposes of this assignment chosen to look at some applications of communication relevant to the practice of public relations . |
| 20 | Were the world to change significantly , we would of course have to look at them again . |
| 21 | This was the Commission on the Constitution asked to look at ‘ the present functions of the central legislature and government in relation to the several countries , nations and regions of the United kingdom ’ . |
| 22 | Asaad turns to look at Isaac ; he intends to play . |
| 23 | All the front-seat passenger has to look at is a fussily styled and poorly fitting glovebox , but more of this later . |
| 24 | Ace turned to look at Defries , who shrugged , put a hand to an ear , and mouthed ‘ No sound . ’ |
| 25 | I have myself been welcomed as a local council surveyor come to look at houses in a slum area , and I had an assistant who was once received as a person who was trying to recruit voluntary social workers . |
| 26 | Rose perched on a stool so that her face was on a level with Lily and the woman had to look at her . |
| 27 | My learned friend and I thought that if your Lordship wanted to look at the documentation so that your Lordship is familiar with some of the documentation which is going to be referred to in the evidence , er simply to enable your Lordship to be er a little more familiar with the nature of content of some of the documentation then the crucial documents are those of pages one seven eight to four two five , bundle B. |
| 28 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
| 29 | I erm unfortunately , er , agree with the previous speaker that a very strong calvinistic streak runs through me and I believe in the two parent family and also in the efforts that you should make to keep the family ge together , but I think too , there 's sp , er , perceptions of individuals and particularly , younger generations now in society , are so much different from my own perceptions when I initially became married and started my own family but what society has to look at the perceptions and expectations of the individuals in society . |
| 30 | But it is clear that if , as we have said , death from suicide is relatively common in Britain and most funeral services take place within the Christian context , then it would seem that the church needs to look at this whole subject again with a great deal more openness than has been possible up to now . |