Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] look at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train .
2 This chapter has looked at the importance of temporary jobs as a source of flows both from unemployment into employment and from employment into unemployment .
3 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 .
4 This small-scale study aims to look at the impacts of deregulation of passenger transport in the United States and to examine the way that transport suppliers have responded to the new environment .
5 No Swindon fan likes looking at the league table just now but the Hammers have lost their last two and let in seven goals
6 Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential .
7 Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential .
8 The recession has exacerbated this problem to such an extent that the Metropolitan Police has a Fraud Squad division detailed to look at the issue .
9 ‘ Now I 'm in the voucher scheme I feel safer knowing that the council has looked at the people it employs , and if there 's any difficulty I can go to Joan [ the manager ] . ’
10 East Devon District Council has looked at the paperwork and has realized that the Community Council is going to match anything that they give , so I 've spoken to their recycling officer and he thinks that the way the budget is , we 're very likely to get one of the containers from them , which would be matched by another from the Community Council .
11 His Mum turned to look at the car that had crushed the arrow bits .
12 The family proceedings court has to look at the Welfare Checklist ( section 1 , 1989 Children Act ) and , as the writers say , the conflict between the child 's welfare being paramount and the need to protect the community present a real paradox .
13 Will my right hon. Friend undertake to look at the question afresh , please ?
14 The hypnotist 's instruction to keep looking at the drawing pin conflicts with his suggestion that the eyes are growing tired and will soon be closing of themselves .
15 Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors .
16 My learned friend and I thought that if your Lordship wanted to look at the documentation so that your Lordship is familiar with some of the documentation which is going to be referred to in the evidence , er simply to enable your Lordship to be er a little more familiar with the nature of content of some of the documentation then the crucial documents are those of pages one seven eight to four two five , bundle B.
17 Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow .
18 I erm unfortunately , er , agree with the previous speaker that a very strong calvinistic streak runs through me and I believe in the two parent family and also in the efforts that you should make to keep the family ge together , but I think too , there 's sp , er , perceptions of individuals and particularly , younger generations now in society , are so much different from my own perceptions when I initially became married and started my own family but what society has to look at the perceptions and expectations of the individuals in society .
19 And I think central government needs to look at the way in which inner cities are being constantly run down and erm problems highlighted and aggravated because of the circumstances .
20 Elements of the new approach include looking at the cost of environmental degradation of an area in terms of : its effect on house prices ; the cost of alternative methods of transport ; the value local people place on maintaining environmental features intact ; and an assessment of the cost of replacement , for example moving a colony of badgers .
21 In doing so , the counsellor has to look at the family dynamic with a particular emphasis on those factors which impinge upon the life of the ageing family member , but to be seen as anything other than impartial , particularly when there is jealousy and conflict within the family group , can lead to a lack of trust and the possible withdrawal of co-operation and participation by some family members .
22 This project seeks to look at the question of labour regulation and economic performance in a more rigorous manner by undertaking a secondary analysis of the 1980 and 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Surveys and by incorporating into the analysis additional economic data .
23 Standard started looking at the possibilities of EAP back in 1990 when the financial industry was going through a period of great change .
24 I 'd like to go on and lo dad went to look at the cathedral .
25 Dad stood looking at the flat in disgust .
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