Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities promised to look into the complaints in order to defuse the situation . |
| 2 | Well I think it 's very important Robert because , I mean as the charter for the arts indicated look at the money that local authorities are spending upstairs to us and really you know we , we are |
| 3 | I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! . |
| 4 | Traditionally pacifists had looked to the evolution of a transnational civil society and the gradual withering away of the nation state as the key to human progress — a view elaborated most influentially by Richard Cobden . |
| 5 | Empires have been built and fortunes acquired during the Eighties , and most ‘ lazy ’ journalists have looked to the States to explain the phenomenon . |
| 6 | When prospective buyers came to look at the house , which happened more and more frequently , they stayed out of the way until they had gone . |
| 7 | When fire protection officials came to look at the dump they discovered mattresses deposited by a bed company , furniture and even potentially hazardous oil cans . |
| 8 | I contemplate the thought of days spent looking along the length of Tony 's tripod bag . |
| 9 | I went to London two weeks running to look at the Tower ! ’ |
| 10 | One of the most obvious places to start looking for the existence or not of inequality between different social groups is the amount of income that people earn , since money is so important in our society . |
| 11 | Observers sent to look for the men came under heavy fire , seriously injuring a French officer . |
| 12 | ‘ George Bush and the Republicans have looked after the people who can look after themselves . |
| 13 | Other investigators have looked at the effects of unilateral ECT in relation to handedness . |
| 14 | A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | It aroused fury among the educated classes in Teheran , and it was never ratified ny the Majles , It was at this time that the same Iranian nationalists began to look to the United States for support against British exploitation . |
| 16 | ‘ We should not expect our tenants to have to look at the mess caused by their careless neighbours , ’ said Coun Dixon . |
| 17 | There is a limited amount of money available for these payments , so social fund officers have to look at the needs of all those who apply for help and decide which needs can be met . |
| 18 | Both are only playing with the conventions of the mainstream domestic sitcom of the past 30 years , when writers have looked to the theatre ( notably the work of Neil Simon and Alan Ayckbourn ) as a model . |
| 19 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's no one of any consequence in London at the moment , ’ she told him , ‘ but you wo n't be able to move for the millions of nobodies going to look at the Tower . ’ |
| 21 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 22 | This was still some way from a mathematical science , and chemists continued to look for the Kepler or the Newton of Chemistry who would make it deductive and mathematical . |
| 23 | Councillors agreed to look at the possibility of closing off Roedowns Road to help with possible traffic-flow problems . |
| 24 | These doctors tend to look upon the PHCNs as people they could consult with and give a cold shoulder to the rest of the nurses . |
| 25 | ACE/AGIT recommend that one of the governors undertakes to look after the interests of the children with special educational needs . |
| 26 | More pressure would have to be applied in that area , before the newspapers started to look in the direction of the National Socialists . |
| 27 | Are the clips on the sidewalk grills meant to look like the soles of giant feet ! " |
| 28 | The use of the layby , however , gave concern and councillors suggested looking at the possibility of filling in the laybys along Trinity Hill to prevent further incidents . |
| 29 | Similarly , mothers of babies and children tend to look towards the experience and activities of those women whom they perceive as " successful " , " caring " and " attractive " in the maternal role . |
| 30 | Past pupils have looked after the children of the aristocracy and European royals . |