Example sentences of "[pers pn] look at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 2 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 3 | As I sat in front of him , I looked at a poster-sized photo which was on the wall behind him . |
| 4 | Interviewed shortly after the experience by an unknown reporter underneath the bed , she gasped : ‘ God , I was so excited , it reminded me of when I was 13 , of the first time I looked at an unwrapped tampon . |
| 5 | When you look at a complex sponge skeleton such as that made of silica spicules which is known as Venus ' Flower Basket , the imagination is baffled . |
| 6 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
| 7 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 8 | But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ ! |
| 9 | If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices |
| 10 | Wittgenstein says ( 332 ) : ‘ Do not believe that you have the concept of colour within you because you look at a coloured object — however you look ’ and ( 659 ) ‘ But when I say ‘ It tastes exactly like sugar ’ , in an important sense no remembering takes place . |
| 11 | If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies . |
| 12 | You look at a so-called adult world , ’ she said , ‘ and people just behave ridiculously . |
| 13 | If you look at an American kit for say , £10,000 to £14,000 , which then requires in excess of 500 hours of sweat equity , the Chevron does n't look bad value after all . |
| 14 | If we look at a random list of typical game structures we shall find that they reflect some of life 's common interactions and are obviously just as important in drama . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if we look at a later decision-making episode in the same project when the pupils are temporarily in role as Indians who have to decide whether or not to receive a white stranger into their midst ( p. 53 ) , this is more likely to have been played seriously as a real game for by then the children , after several lessons on the same project , were steeped in the material sufficiently deeply to respect the rich complexity of the problem . |
| 16 | We must consider that when we look at an alternative structure for the present arrangements for meat hygiene inspection . |
| 17 | We looked at a conventional handle , a mix of slotted/Philips/Posidrive blades , an extension and a ratchet ‘ T ’ handle . |
| 18 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 19 | Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ? |
| 20 | He looks at a wooden fence , a section of which was ripped away when the dead man fell back with the bullet in his heart , and he suggests what must have happened . |
| 21 | this fixed fee competitive scenario , then we will insist that we are actually comparing apples with apples and not apples with pears , whe when the client looks at our fee and he looks at an external consultant 's or another railway internal consultant 's fee |
| 22 | Let us look at a simple example . |
| 23 | Let us look at a numerical example , giving Dept . |
| 24 | Let us look at a holy man in action , and the means by which he could exercise local power in a society where constitutionalism by no means ruled . |
| 25 | So let us look at an English case which exemplifies some of the practical problems confronting the theorists of sustainable development : Twyford Down ( near Winchester ) and the route of the M3 motorway in March 1990 . |
| 26 | As will be appreciated , this is a very artificial categorization , little more than a rather crude device to enable us to look at a complex matter . |