Example sentences of "be look up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked .
2 It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience .
3 If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful .
4 They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand .
5 Time spent on this may be looked up as an investment in that if essential job elements are identified , then the people involved in the recruitment process will be less inclined to develop the criteria as they go along .
6 Companies tend to use a ‘ firewall ’ along their route into Internet so that individuals can not be looked up in the directory of users — a sort of ex directory .
7 For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names .
8 Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky .
9 All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube
10 His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike .
11 The third perspective is Kao yuan , in which the viewer is looking up towards a mountain scene , as William Willetts puts it , ‘ through successively receding heights represented by flat parallel planes , each with its own horizon ’ .
12 I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects .
13 Rohmer was looking up into the sky as the vortex of smoke and steam was greedily sucked skywards into the black roiling clouds of the storm .
14 He was looking up at the sign over the door .
15 She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street .
16 Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above .
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