Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their work carries highly charged images of male sexuality , such as ‘ Naked Beauty ’ where two young , naked models abase themselves before an open , budding flower , while George looks on with the impassivity of a voyeur . |
| 2 | The surgeon is wearing a funnel on his head , the woman a book on hers , where they can not be used , and the monk looks on with indifference . |
| 3 | The General looks on as a cadet is singled out to deliver his orders to others from his platoon . |
| 4 | Our first Vice chancellor Tom Cottrell looks on as Lord Robbins , then chancellor , presented the University 's first Undergraduate Degree in Pathfoot Dining Hall in 1970 . |
| 5 | The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing . |
| 6 | looked on across a fence . |
| 7 | Short- hold and assured tenancies aimed at enticing owners to let empty homes are looked on with suspicion and disdain . |
| 8 | As in so many things , the ways of the Victorians , while looked on with horror in late twentieth-century England , have survived in America ; unashamed fervour in holding and expressing religious and patriotic beliefs which easily blend into one another is but one example . |
| 9 | The very word ‘ teaching ’ came to be looked on with disfavour , implying , as it did , an unacceptable de-haut-en-bas presumption with regard to the teacher 's role . |
| 10 | Smith claimed that , although Coleman invited medical men to attend the College with the promise of an early diploma , these educated people were not looked on with favour , for they were able to see through Coleman 's ‘ shallow and fatuous system ’ . |
| 11 | And now today she was going to start out as a student , this lovely girl that Emily still looked on with awe . |
| 12 | Societal expectations are changing in Britain and the fat toddler is no longer looked on with affection , but some cultural minority groups still feel that the young child should be fed and pampered . |
| 13 | In particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion . |
| 14 | The Countryside Commission claims that it will ruin the view from the mountain , but the developers argue that it should be looked on with pride as a source of non-polluting energy . |
| 15 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 16 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 17 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 18 | Thus it was looked on as ‘ the all important matter ’ . |
| 19 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 20 | It was looked on as not advisable to deal with it under the Liverpool Corporation Act . |
| 21 | Patsy Poppleton , who is engaged in research at the Pain Relief Clinic at Abingdon Hospital , resents the fact that research nurses are often looked on as ‘ slaves and handmaidens to doctors ’ . |
| 22 | Although my toys are an important collection , I am wary of them being looked on as investments or high-price commodities like works of art . |
| 23 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 24 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 25 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 26 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 27 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
| 28 | The naive inductivist account of science , which I will outline in the following sections , can be looked on as an attempt to formalize this popular picture of science . |
| 29 | Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner . |
| 30 | For Davidson , the cost in terms of senior management time has to be looked on as ‘ an investment : you ca n't afford to spend less time on it . |