Example sentences of "[Wh det] looked [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , from the point of view of lexical discrimination , Zue in the above paper summarizes studies which looked at equivalence class sizes for a 20,000 word lexicon represented using six broad phonetic categories . |
| 2 | A Home Office study ( HO 1/89 ) which looked at probationers in 1984 found that of some 110,000 people on probation , only 4 per cent were black , 2 per cent were Asian and 1 per cent were ‘ other ’ . |
| 3 | Before the move , there was a consultation procedure with staff which looked at issues like layouts , team placing and furnishings . |
| 4 | Another study which looked at men whose wives had died of cancer of the cervix has shown that there is a much higher incidence of cervical cancer among their second wives than would be expected by chance . |
| 5 | There were two tests of number concepts which looked at pupils ' understanding of whole number and decimal place value , the number line , and some aspects of fractions . |
| 6 | Quite obviously , the black population which attached so much importance to Johnson in the early years of the century was very different to the one which looked to Ali for leads in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 7 | Equally , there were others such as Plataia or Thespiai which looked to Athens instead . |
| 8 | They were walking steadily up the strath , past Castle Menzies , looking unreal in its composed beauty under early Sunday sunshine , past the close-built cottages and huts of Dull which looked like scree left by a spate , heaped-up boulders , shaggy heather thatch , dykes built recently with field stones and already falling down . |
| 9 | Sure enough , it had four processes around the mouth which looked like antennae . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , in the Nottingham Post there was clear readers ' support for the classical designs of Demetri Porphyrios , which looked like school buildings for St Trinian 's . |
| 11 | All three of them were armed ; I mean armed , with revolvers , with cartridge belts over their shoulder and carbines , which looked like Springfields at first . |
| 12 | They were covered outside by a protective mesh which looked like chicken wire on which the dirt of decades had accumulated , so that the panes were honeycombs of greenish grime . |
| 13 | Martin Hunter 's own paintings , large gaudy canvases which looked like close-ups of minestrone soup seen under the effects of a powerful hallucinatory drug , adorned the walls . |
| 14 | Sometimes there were sandy heaths which looked like parts of Surrey and sometimes massive , sulphurous and heavily polluted industrial plants . |
| 15 | Fisons adds that at no time did it use ‘ beer kegs ’ for storage during the manufacture of Imferon and that the bulk intermediate storage vessels , which looked like beer kegs , have now been replaced . |
| 16 | Then , just as if the world had frozen and stopped for a moment , she saw the woman in the driving seat , face white , eyes glassy with shock , the mouth stretched in a grimace which looked like terror . |
| 17 | He had new clothes : loose grey trousers of a material which looked like silk and a grey tunic which was open at the front almost to the waist . |
| 18 | Maybe he was a man so obsessed with hidden things that he simply could n't see open criminality — which looked like business and politics almost as usual . |
| 19 | In 1781 the French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a catalogue of them , containing over a hundred entries , not because he was interested in them ( quite the contrary ! ) but because he was a comet-hunter , and he was persistently misled by fuzzy objects which looked like comets but which were not . |
| 20 | There was curiosity and wonderment at those features of life that went unremarked by the natives but to foreigners were so eccentric , and so quintessentially British , like porridge and kippers for breakfast , ‘ a peculiar liquid which looked like coffee , tasted like poison and was said to be tea ’ , and bottles of HP Sauce and vinegar on the dining table . |
| 21 | Panting and breathless , she forged ahead , looking now at the cliffs of North Foreland , which looked within walking distance today , and now at some fishing-boats far out at sea . |
| 22 | In early 1988 , SCOTVEC published an Occasional Paper which looked in detail at the validation of private centres and at the candidate and module registrations made by them . |
| 23 | Demian 's face was covered by a white , concave square of what looked to John like the netting used for bee-keeper 's head-protection . |
| 24 | Some were on cartridge paper , some on pages torn from what looked like school exercise books , and some on folded , green-lined computer print-out . |
| 25 | Over by the door of the church I could see Meriel Viney , wearing a kind of white sack and a pair of what looked like tennis shoes . |
| 26 | There was a different harsh reality waiting in the lodge : I stood with chums , amazed at what looked like Som . |
| 27 | Quiss looked up to see an overhead cable-car system of what looked like lengths of knotted string and bits of chain , running through little metal wheels set in the ceiling and carrying , on small hooks , cups and mugs and plates ( so that was why they had a hole at the edge ) , forks and spoons and knives of every description . |
| 28 | The second man reached into his pocket and pulled out a long length of what looked like ribbon . |
| 29 | Nothing , that is , except a child 's tricycle , an antique dart-board , and what looked like part of a fixture from a household vacuum-cleaner . |
| 30 | The room contained little more than a long wooden table covered with lino , a barber 's chair that had been slightly modified to accommodate dental patients , another deep earthenware sink , and a basketwork bed — mounted on what looked like pram wheels — for patients forced to lie supine . |