Example sentences of "of looking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice how the first step of looking through the window is less threatening than the second one of opening the door . |
| 2 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 3 | She prayed they would not think of looking under the bed . |
| 4 | Experts believe it is all part of a wartime spirit of looking on the bright side . |
| 5 | But there are other ways of looking at the question . |
| 6 | After a while Moran tired of looking at the newspapers and went outside though it was almost night . |
| 7 | In this way of looking at the economy , wages seem to be determined by forces as inevitable as mathematics , and if wages were low this was no doubt unfortunate , but there was nothing anybody could do about it , any more than it would be possible to change the laws of gravity . |
| 8 | ‘ Nice to see you back , ’ said chairman , Alban Maginness to his former party colleague as Austin Currie went through his 18th or 19th conference , this time though , from the unfamiliar position of looking at the rostrum rather than being on it . ’ |
| 9 | A tin of rings and a ten shilling note , a woodshed and an oak tree , an innocence , never to be reclaimed , a shock which changed even the ways of looking at the ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 10 | The second way of looking at the distribution of coin hoards is to plot their geographical positions on a map . |
| 11 | But modern westerners ( and those inspired by European culture ) combine this way of looking at the world with advanced technology , enabling them to make huge changes , quickly . |
| 12 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 13 | She told him she was too busy to attend to the matter , whilst the guests gave up all pretence of looking at the pictures to stare at the intruder . |
| 14 | She thought of looking at the doctor and indicating that he should interfere and stop it ; but she did not . |
| 15 | Many scientists saw at once its far-reaching implications and a whole spate of major papers were published in 1967 and 1968 , which quite suddenly added up together to make a completely new way of looking at the Earth 's main working parts : Plate Tectonics . |
| 16 | For the most part it consists of a series of simple techniques combined with a new way of looking at the subject . |
| 17 | The more opportunities he/she has of looking at the illustrations and reading the captions with you , the more he/she will come to recognise the words . |
| 18 | ANOTHER way of looking at the magnetic quantisation of Figure 3 is shown in the energy band diagram ( a ) . |
| 19 | Rene/ Descartes , the I7th century French philosopher , gave the world the expression Cogito , ergo sum ( I think therefore I am ) and endowed the French with an invincible confidence in they very own way of looking at the world . |
| 20 | The Newson studies do , however , suggest ways of looking at the backgrounds of those children we are setting out to serve . |
| 21 | Whatever the merits of such an exact parallel between the chakras of the human body and the landscape , this way of looking at the countryside seems to enable certain insights into subtle geography to be obtained that might otherwise be missed . |
| 22 | The method I prefer , however , is just to make a play of looking at the coin after each few rubs on the elbow . |
| 23 | Instead of looking at the brochure why not come down right now and have a look at the surgery and building ? ’ |
| 24 | Mr Bishop said that the ACCA was in the process of looking at the job 's terms of reference within the context of the ACCA 's future strategy and would be contacting headhunters shortly . |
| 25 | Such descriptions may have truth in them , but I think there is yet another way of looking at the situation . |
| 26 | However , there is another way of looking at the phenomenon of life , and that is in terms of consciousness . |
| 27 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 28 | When you 've reached the point where you want publication , where seeing your work in print is necessary to you in order to feel you 've made a permanent communication — then you have to begin the work of looking at the market , seeing what is published and by whom . |
| 29 | Next time you visit Fenland Aviation Museum , make a point of looking at the photograph albums pertaining to the Merlin 's strip-down . |
| 30 | Talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ commits us to an inappropriate way of looking at the matter — as though the only difference between understanding understanding and understanding sweating is that in the case of understanding understanding our gaze is directed inwards . |