Example sentences of "from looking [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The doors were padlocked anyway and I got what I wanted for my purpose from looking at the outside . ’
2 From looking at the wound , I would say that it must be . ’
3 Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on .
4 Arthur Conway turned from looking at the man to Agnes as she quickly explained what she had sold the customer .
5 Long before any of this , Kevin Brown had returned from looking at the corpse of Simon Cormack to the point where Quinn still stood .
6 Most viewers who ponder the matter can decide — from looking at the eyes — which of the four sisters is married to the photographer .
7 Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China .
8 The roads and the settlements are there all right , as you can tell from looking at the map , but many of the people are not ; they have left this blessed landscape for the towns , for Tarbes or for Toulouse .
9 More than we can gain from looking at the grade and the stage .
10 With all the previous intermediaries we looked at , we warned that we can not judge the volume of buying and selling of assets which an intermediary carries out just from looking at the inflow of new funds .
11 Yet as we unbend from looking at the grass
12 ( i.e. From looking at the distribution it is possible to determine that setting a threshold score of 88 ( say ) would remove 30% of the target words from the lattice giving a lattice quality of Q70 )
13 There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act .
14 It seems to me from looking at the figures within the projections that what North Yorkshire are are planning is that we 'll have a return to that widening black area that 's part of that particular diagram .
15 It was the hon. Gentleman 's casting vote as Chairman of the Select Committee on Employment which last week prevented that Committee from looking into the truth of these matters .
16 Apart from looking after the home and having babies , she is still expected to do most of the manual work on the land as her husband may be working abroad or in Funchal or just resting .
17 The withdrawal of English Heritage from looking after the Grade II listed buildings in the capital — those which make up much of its historic fabric — is viewed as alarming because it involves dismantling the highly professional architectural conservation division , with its unifying role , which English Heritage inherited in 1986 when the Greater London Council was abolished .
18 Making money from looking after the elderly has never been more difficult .
19 red-eyed from looking in the light ,
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