Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion . |
| 2 | I 'm now looked on as a one parent family . |
| 3 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 4 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
| 5 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 6 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 7 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |
| 8 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 9 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
| 10 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 11 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 12 | City came under some pressure from Tring , but the home side never looked down to a sub front . |
| 13 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 14 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 15 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 16 | Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name . |
| 17 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 18 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 19 | John looks up at the grey eyes so far away . |
| 20 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 21 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 22 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 23 | This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ . |
| 24 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 25 | Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was . |
| 26 | As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland |
| 27 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 28 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 29 | The meticulously clean rooms are of medium size , nicely furnished and decorated with telephone and T.V. The breakfast room is of a good size and looks out onto a small garden . |
| 30 | It is a ground-floor flat , one wall is a window , which keeps the place cold and which looks out onto a bare field , with two scaffolding poles and a tarmac patch . |