Example sentences of "they look [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why do they look for an ALTERNATIVE interpretation |
| 2 | Did n't they look at the real man ? ’ |
| 3 | So we er , schools can approach us as the Engineering Council and say , we 'd like some help , and quite obviously , they all want some help when they look at the actual syllabus of a design and technology itself ! |
| 4 | This fruitful distinction is possible because here as elsewhere Marx and Engels are not bound in their analysis simply by legal forms ; they look at the social system as a whole . |
| 5 | Billy suggested they look for a shady spot for the picnic in the covert they were approaching . |
| 6 | On the one hand , people look for a low instalment amount ( which of course tends to mean a relatively long repayment period ) ; on the other , they look for a short repayment period ( which tends to mean a relatively high instalment amount ) . |
| 7 | So , many leading-edge manufacturers are searching for ways to enhance their workers ' capabilities and improve labour relations , even as they look to the new technology to cut labour costs as well . ’ |
| 8 | They look to the local officer , Juan Vargas for help and advice . |
| 9 | Similarly , the harmful beings see meat when they look upon the human body , the human ‘ soul ’ ( ruwai ) , or human smell , and they will also set about trying to catch these . |
| 10 | They look after the pregnant woman rather than ‘ the pregnancy ’ and are a source of practical and emotional support as well as health care to the woman and her baby . |
| 11 | These books — they look like a second-hand bookshop . ’ |
| 12 | I look forward to seeing the amendments that will be tabled by my right hon. Friend for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) and others when they look in a measured way at the Bill and seek to amend it to provide the support for the prison service that is so desperately needed . |
| 13 | Increasingly they looked to the central government for more grants and financial help . |
| 14 | Rather than continuing to attempt to police the whole world , they looked for a tighter unity of the formal Empire . |
| 15 | Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ? |
| 16 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 17 | There was a little wistfulness about these village girls when they looked at the rich convent girls in their expensive clothes . |
| 18 | They looked at the black box . |
| 19 | They looked at the low asset base and in the end it was decided to go for a trade sale . ’ |
| 20 | I think they did these figures a week or so before xmas … which explains the figures if they looked at the high scoring charts for each club . |
| 21 | I do n't know what the guards thought when they looked through the closed-circuit television that was always trained on us here and saw three men , heads motionless , looking down fixedly at some spot on the ground , making curious , swinging arm movements . |
| 22 | They looked through the open doorway , and there , smiling in at them , was a tall , pleasant-looking lady . |
| 23 | Their social circle was more geographically widespread and they looked beyond the local village for their friends and kin . |
| 24 | They looked in the other room , but found no supper . |
| 25 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 26 | This survey revealed that 4 per cent of adults reported that they looked after a dependant living in the same house ( i.e. they were co-resident carer ) with a further 10 per cent reporting that they looked after a dependant in another household ( i.e. they were an extra-resident carer ) . |
| 27 | keith richardson says that most people thought Gloucester were going to lose but it was a great win … they looked like a different side and played exceptionally well and were lifted by the supporters |
| 28 | They looked like a comic turn . |
| 29 | Klift spoke for all of them as they looked around the sloping entranceway . |