Example sentences of "[adv] looking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4 , 6b . |
| 2 | We can not tell which it was by merely looking at the facts ; we have to ask what his purpose actually was . |
| 3 | While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so . |
| 4 | Merely looking at the final stage of supply can obscure the full range of options open to a particular firm in its choice of serving foreign markets . |
| 5 | Er and therefore it looks at erm the indirect impact of development erm and it 's it 's more sophisticated one might say than merely looking at the quality of the land . |
| 6 | and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes . |
| 7 | Anxiously , he spent the days watching and waiting , constantly looking down the road , longing for his return . |
| 8 | So , while McDonald 's is powerfully committed to its core values , it is constantly looking beyond the practices that made it successful in order to explore new opportunities . |
| 9 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 10 | It should be a condition , for anyone thinking about development to resist trying to infer how a structure develops by only looking at the final result . |
| 11 | No have a look , you 're only looking at the beginning of it here try again |
| 12 | John Heminges said they were dark , cruel plays , and that Will was only looking at the black side of people . |
| 13 | One of the most important areas of credit management is risk assessment , not only looking at the individual customer companies concerned , but also at the current financial background in which they operate . |
| 14 | On an acquisition level , it means only looking at the assets , market valuation and cash-flow rather than at the nature of the business . |
| 15 | He 's only looking at the pictures , he ca n't read really Eh what did you think of the dancing concert ? |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 17 | is only looking in the mirror |
| 18 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 19 | Erm right so looking at the details of those , right what we 've , what we 're actually saying then is that if erm you , you would want to provide that income or want to make sure that that , that income was available should you die tomorrow ? |
| 20 | Therefore , they were left with the option of investing millions of pounds or closing them , and perhaps looking at the building of a new reactor . |
| 21 | Shrewsbury stood around there , apparently looking for the offside and in the end it was an awful effort at goal . |
| 22 | Unix System Labs is apparently looking at the Tiny 386BSD boot disk ( the one that 's been circulating in the academia , which derives from Bill Jolitz 's work and is not from Berkeley System Design Inc ) checking that it does n't infringe their property rights . |
| 23 | There was one vehicle there , a car with two figures sitting in the front seats and apparently looking at the road ahead of them . |
| 24 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 25 | The wife , presumably looking after the children , gets about by bus with whatever inconvenience that entails , such as the lack of public transport at less busy periods . |
| 26 | Discreetly looking at the price , and mentally reviewing how much money she had on her , and thinking wryly that perhaps , after all , she should have accepted half the prize money for the leprechaun , she bought it . |
| 27 | She stayed in mostly looking after the house and cooking and seeing to his clothes . |
| 28 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 29 | The easiest uses to come to grips with are exclamations such as ( 1 ) above , because they give a very clear impression of somehow looking at the infinitive event from a position before : they express a desire or longing to realize the infinitive event , so that ( 1 ) might be paraphrased " I would love to be in England … |
| 30 | She looked familiar , and I was soon looking into the green and expressive eyes of Sally Drayton , who had been a fellow student at Sussex University . |