Example sentences of "to look [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have only to look through any cookery book index to realise the extent of the French influence on even the most basic of dishes and the number of French recipe titles is further proof of a lasting international legacy . |
| 2 | What had possessed her to look through those field-glasses ? |
| 3 | And at dinnertime we used to look through this window and we could see all the lodging houses , and under the beds You could see them in bed . |
| 4 | Hubel and his colleagues had studied the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey for many years without observing these cells and it was only when the cytochrome oxidase blobs had been demonstrated consistently and they started to look for receptive-field properties within them that they obtained these surprising results . |
| 5 | This transmission of culture is aided by the tendency to recruit in ‘ one 's own image ’ where members of interview panels tend to look for similar qualities that they themselves possess when recruiting new members . |
| 6 | So John Davies and Simon Green of the University of Leicester have collaborated with the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in Britain to look for fast-moving objects in IRAS signals as they arrive from the laboratory 's receiving station in Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | If the purchaser is setting up a new company to take over the business of the vendor , since that new company will have no track record , the landlord may well be entitled to look for additional security , such as a parent company or bank guarantee or a rent deposit . |
| 8 | ‘ In deciding where to look for additional revenue , I have been guided by a number of principles . |
| 9 | Edward Forbes and Darwin were inspired by Lyell to look for geological changes that would explain the present distribution of species in Europe . |
| 10 | What we do instead is to look for partial theories that will describe situations in which certain interactions can be ignored or approximated in a simple manner . |
| 11 | To look for small changes in the transition frequency , it is sufficient to take measurements at two points , one each side of the central peak , roughly half way down the peak . |
| 12 | No luck this time , only a couple of redshanks take fright and fly off yelping in alarm , and a female merganser swims among the thongweed , head poking under the water to look for small fish . |
| 13 | Certainly the Americans continued to look for alternative strategies , both to raise the nuclear threshold and ( because they felt the Europeans left them too few military options ) to ensure that small nuclear weapons could still be used for war-fighting . |
| 14 | Once employees are certain they are not going to move with the company , they are going to look for alternative work . |
| 15 | The hope is that it could be possible to agree to look for alternative possibilities for Mrs Falconer . ’ |
| 16 | It appears that the next stage is to look for suitable sites and I am told that you will be able to provide us with a large scale map of the area for this purpose . |
| 17 | Scholars who are good at knowing where to look for the sources of their subject matter may not be good at knowing where to look for suitable software . |
| 18 | Additionally , we will continue to look for suitable opportunities to work with appropriate companies to expand and improve our business through partnership or acquisition . |
| 19 | Presumably , there are psychological needs at work influencing a young person to look for suitable father figures of which there are many in sport . |
| 20 | Rather , the tradition includes and is aware of its primitive origins : this reminds the tradition of its vulnerability and need to look for higher guidance , while keeping it aware of crude root emotions which can not be avoided . |
| 21 | I 'm only showing you once darling and then you 'll have to do it or else I 'll never get me bingo done , alright , you choose a word to look for like Doc |
| 22 | The next night , the burley George Burbridge , a captain in the Canadian Army , took a canoe into the beach to look for Norman Teacher but there was no sign of him . |
| 23 | He decided to sell it because he wanted time to look for other things and because whichever organisation bought it would automatically attract people who would want to study it for different scientific reasons . |
| 24 | Just — different , because you 'd be tied up elsewhere , and I would have to look for other friends . |
| 25 | Hungary 's need for loans and its trade surplus problems with the Soviet Union led it to look for other trading partners within Europe . |
| 26 | Carrie knew how hard it had been for her father , who had spent almost thirty-seven years as a horsekeeper for Galloway , to look for other employment . |
| 27 | It became necessary to look for other employment . |
| 28 | Therefore the majority of our current staff will have to look for other employment . |
| 29 | Of course , some of those whose jobs are reallocated in the dispersal policy will decide to look for other employment in the locality in which they currently work . |
| 30 | ‘ Either you increase my husband 's wages to reflect the work he does on your behalf , or I might find it my duty to persuade him to look for other employment , perhaps with one of the many property owners hereabouts . ’ |