Example sentences of "[vb pp] to look [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the United States Supreme Court , which can delve deep into the deliberations of the Founding Fathers to try to elucidate what was meant by a particular provision of the Constitution , British courts are not permitted to look at the proceedings of Parliament in order to determine what Parliament really meant . |
| 2 | But after 25 years loyal service with the RAF , the time has come to look at a more modern replacement . |
| 3 | She had come to look at the frescos of Sandweg , the frescos that interpreted the story of the Massacre of the Innocents — the slaughter of the male children of Bethlehem at the behest of Herod . |
| 4 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 5 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 6 | On the 27 January 1991 Siad Barré fled the country , and the clans embarked on the intractable conflict which has come to look like a nation intent on destroying itself . |
| 7 | It 's expected to look at the affect of the closure and what can be done about it . |
| 8 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 9 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 10 | This study was designed to look at an array of possible influences on diabetic control in a group of diabetic patients in the community in order to identify which factors influenced glycaemic control and to quantify the relative contribution of each . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The programme was designed to look at the skills and knowledge needed by hospitality industry managers , at all levels in every sector of the profession , to operate successfully within Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 13 | If you could be trusted to look after the kid properly , he would n't need clothes from other people , would he ? ’ |
| 14 | The result was a system in which the government never changed hands , but instead was carried out by those who could be trusted to look after the affairs of state . |
| 15 | The cake is decorated to look like a parcel , even down to the gift tag which is edible . |
| 16 | It is primarily by the spreading of awareness of foreign legal systems among our students that we can hope to accelerate the process of harmonization and to produce practitioners and judges of the future prepared to look beyond the horizon of their own legal system . |
| 17 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 18 | Drew had never been extravagant , but he could n't see the point of parsimony for parsimony 's sake , so he had decided to look for a patron , some ignoramus who would pay him a long salary to coach him and look after his ponies . |
| 19 | Christine and Tony had decided to look for a girl of about 2 , since they felt a baby would be too much to cope with and a 2- year-old could accompany Christine to nursery school . |
| 20 | The Directorate have therefore decided to look at the whole of our service provision on a TEAM basis . |
| 21 | It dates from 1861 and was built to look like a church as , by that time , Portuguese law permitted Protestant churches to look like places of worship . |
| 22 | The team realized that little effort had ever been made to look at an area of activity which tended to be regarded as a ‘ necessary evil ’ and one which was very time consuming and most invasive of their private lives . |
| 23 | It is no longer enough to make a simple count of publications ; some attempt must be made to look at the informational content ( bibliographies ) , peer group assessment ( citations ) , and long-term value to the academic community ( review articles ) . |
| 24 | It is no longer enough to make a simple count of publications ; some attempt must be made to look at the informational content ( bibliographies ) , peer group assessment ( citations ) , and long-term value to the academic community ( review articles ) . |
| 25 | Rather than try to disentangle the scores of relationships examined between animals and plants in this area by putting them into categories of predation or dispersal mechanism , an attempt is made to look at the relationships of particular taxonomic groups of animals and their food plants . |
| 26 | Starting from Birkdale Summit , an initial detour may be made to look into the open shaft of Jingling Pot nearby , after which a pathless course must be steered south-west across tedious grass to reach and climb the rough slopes building up to the Edge . |
| 27 | In doing so he was being made to look like a ‘ revisionist ’ , one of the dirtiest words in the Communist vocabulary , their equivalent of ‘ UnAmerican ’ or worse . |
| 28 | He marched back in with his shoes duly laced up , before telling the court : ‘ I have been made to look like a child in a legal institution and take it very badly . ’ |
| 29 | Then again , it is always possible they tokenised the ban a ) because they felt they could get away with it ; b ) because the stars involved are too big to lose ( especially the photogenic Krabbe ) from the firmament of German sport ; c ) because if it could all be made to look like a mistake , world athletics might look that much cleaner ; d ) because they feared a backlash from the disenfranchised trio , in the form of wholesale revelations about the extent of drug use in athletics , both in Germany and all over the world ; and e ) arising perhaps out of D , they do n't feel like visiting a heavy punishment on their own girls , when there are many others the world over who are equally deserving of banishment . |
| 30 | No one likes to be made to look like a mere creature of chance . |