Example sentences of "look up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing this , the system may have to combine and manipulate information from a number of different sources : the operator specifies the letters and clauses to be used ; the system fills out certain details from the data base ; in some cases it may have to do such things as take the salary and location from the data base , look up the conditions for that location , find out that certain uplifts need to be applied to salary , perform the arithmetic and insert the answers in the appropriate places in the text . |
| 2 | If you want to know how many units of alcohol you drink , look up the type of drink in the left column . |
| 3 | It is doubtful if you look up the word for baggage retrieval , and then look for a sign with those words . |
| 4 | For example , if you look up the word " wit " in a Concordance to Congreve , you will find all the places where the seventeenth-century dramatist Congreve used that word ; you can then work out what its particular meaning for Congreve must have been by studying how he uses it . |
| 5 | The most prominent , due west of the village of Lescun as you look up the valley , is the more or less pyramidal Pic d'Anie , of 8,200 feet , the first or most westerly of the major Pyrenean summits ; it is claimed by the Basques as their one high Pyrenee , the home of wild goats and the legendary source of storms . |
| 6 | Then look up the root word in the lexicon . |
| 7 | I 'd like you to get your calcu calculator out , look up the sine of |
| 8 | I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use |
| 9 | Simply look up the cake tin size in the charts on pages 8–12 for all the ingredients , quantities and cooking times . |
| 10 | And er I was gon na , er er , look up the thing . |
| 11 | Try to find a book on additives ( there may be one in your local library ) and look up the names and functions of the following : E110 , E153 , E162 , E222 , E331 , E410 , E414 , E621 , E460 |
| 12 | Wah , urgh , I tried to argue the point at appeal , erm , if you look up the listing for these properties , er , in the area which back onto the mill stream , it 's all the grounds are listed because it says quite clearly , that in the opinion of , they form a group , and it was one of the reasons which I 'm glad you , well as you can see , this piece of ground is part of a listing , and although this existing permission , we 're looking at it as a clean site , tonight , we 're not looking at what has been passed . |
| 13 | If you look up the line of the eighteenth fairway you will see — yes — the helicopter is hovering over its target . |