Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm now looked on as a one parent family . |
| 2 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 3 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | City came under some pressure from Tring , but the home side never looked down to a sub front . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The dining room has a thirty foot wall of glass which enables guests to view the attractive landscaped garden and which looks out to a small patio for guests to enjoy in the summer . |
| 13 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 14 | Behind her , Nahum was looking on with an unsmiling face . |
| 15 | When father and son were alone David stood warming his hands at the brazier , and looking down with a clouded face into the red glow . |
| 16 | On the relief the girl Athena , without aegis or shield ( she is shown now even without helmet , or with it in her hand ) leans on her spear , hand on hip , looking down at a small stele . |
| 17 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 18 | His room was on the first floor of the college , looking down into a narrow street that ran beside it . |
| 19 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 20 | Looking down from a small window in the lodge house , the factor Robert Menzies was terrified to see the throngs of people , like herds of cattle milling at a tryst . |
| 21 | Jay Disley was spotted by the police looking in through a broken window and his accomplice Simon Brooklyn was found in the kitchen of the house in Berrybank Crescent . |
| 22 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 23 | They had their own windows with dark blue oil-cloth roller-blinds through which Dot could see into the compartment of the train alongside just like looking over at a next-door house . |
| 24 | The King is seen exchanging an earthly crown for a crown of thorns and looking up towards a heavenly crown |
| 25 | She stood outside looking up at a creamy moon , fearful lest some bat might fly into her hair . |
| 26 | We soon realise that we are , effectively , looking up at a red ceiling , where the four walls of the room , seen in perspective below , are all decorated with a brace of fishermen . |
| 27 | There were further rattles of machine-gun fire and Rex found himself looking up at a troubled sky . |
| 28 | ‘ Things , ’ he echoed , looking up with a sinking feeling in his heart . |
| 29 | The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description . |
| 30 | Christians , both Catholic and Protestant , have argued thus , as have Muslim scholars looking back to a golden age when Islamic thinkers were at the forefront of the physical sciences . |