Example sentences of "looks [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks through the little hammock in front of him . |
| 2 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 3 | He always looks for the best in people or in any given situation . |
| 4 | For example , take Tokai 's notorious early '80s Fender copies : at long last , affordable , pro-quality guitars with classic looks for the impoverished working musician . |
| 5 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 6 | It looks for the Highest Common Factor ( HCF ) and seeks to promote that . |
| 7 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 8 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 9 | From there it looks for the infra-red ‘ signature ’ of a rocket 's exhaust . |
| 10 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 11 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 12 | Keener looks for the right sound rather than dictating where microphones should be . |
| 13 | And that 's where engineering you know , knowledge , comes er to bear because an engineer looks for that , he looks for the easy , simplest you know er method of production er which gives him an effective er machining operation throughout the whole job . |
| 14 | Looks FOR THE 90s |
| 15 | Looks FOR THE 90s |
| 16 | Looks FOR THE 90S |
| 17 | Just as PageMaker provides almost infinite control over each element of each page so Ventura looks after the complete document . |
| 18 | With birds and mammals it is nearly always the female that looks after the young , without the help of the male , but many fish reverse this procedure , with all parental duties being carried out by the males , as in the case of nest-building sticklebacks and pouch-carrying seahorses . |
| 19 | Even the few examples we have seen illustrate how species with biparental care tend to be monogamous , species in which only the female looks after the young tend to be polygynous , and species in which only the males care for the young tend to be polyandrous . |
| 20 | The borough council already looks after the eastern end of the ruined priory which was the first Augustinian monastery . |
| 21 | Barclays says it looks after the financial affairs of some 150 ‘ high technology ’ companies in Cambridge : three years ago the figure was 15 . |
| 22 | With one assistant , she looks after the legal work for the whole of the company , undertakes the company secretarial work and attends Board meetings . |
| 23 | The male looks after the first and the female the second . |
| 24 | The film also impressed James Lewis , 23 , from Leatherhead , Surrey , who looks after the disabled . |
| 25 | A small full-time staff based in St Albans looks after the day-to-day administration and finances of the Campaign and produced a monthly newspaper , What 's Brewing , and the annual Good Beer Guide . |
| 26 | This looks after the day-to-day running of the Campaign , leaving the executive to consider major policy initiatives . |
| 27 | MMT has two main lines of business : developing , implementing and supporting custom applications ; and software facilities management , where it looks after the day-to-day operation of a customer 's software . |
| 28 | ‘ Fate looks after the Indian Empire , ’ |
| 29 | Typically , for Eliot , this hope for the future , following the French anthropologists ' piece , looks towards the distant past . |
| 30 | It is flanked by a group of handsome Victorian residences and looks towards the new Phase I building which provides studios , laboratories and workshops for the faculties of Art and Design , Science and Technology and the Faculty of Informatics . |