Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Labour movement looking to the 1990s would have been been debating single union , no-strike deals and profit-related payment systems rather than how best to call strikes and whether a system of labour tribunals was needed to compensate for the supposed bias of the capitalist courts . |
| 2 | Ever since the RSPCA established a Working Party to look at the implications of fishing , we have been concerned about one of its conclusions , which is that fish should be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their ability to experience pain . |
| 3 | In Britain , the electronics industry has set up a working party to look at the options . |
| 4 | The committee have set up a working party to look into the proposal . |
| 5 | We have a working party to look into the problem of substance abuse . |
| 6 | There are so many compensations for everyone in the family during the teenage years that it is a grave mistake to look on the black side . |
| 7 | Close to the block there was a steep bank looking onto the football ground . |
| 8 | There has always been a self-proclaimed tendency to look behind the scenes , to see where power really lies , to explore and explode the myths surrounding a society 's image of itself and its political system . |
| 9 | A tired girl with brown hair above a white dress looked across the room from another booth with a question . |
| 10 | They were having a great time looking at the animals and listening as we explained which countries they were all from . |
| 11 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 12 | It might then be a good time to look at the original sources of stress which created these symptoms in the first place . |
| 13 | SCOTVEC therefore welcomed the decision of SED to set up a small committee to look at the module/short course issues , particularly in the context of schools ' S3/4 stages . |
| 14 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials conceded to a congressional committee looking into the costs that the agency had made a mistake by letting the contract ‘ run over cost , over time . ’ |
| 15 | At the ever active Theatre Royal , Plymouth , there is a day-long workshop looking into the history of the musical . |
| 16 | It 's a difficult job to look at the legislation and see a way through it for organisations dealing with homelessness — there is no way through it . |
| 17 | A new book looks at the modern drinker … |
| 18 | NARAL is asking readers of the New York Times to see a loss of women 's rights as a loss of Americans ' rights , thus implying that this is a novel way to look at the matter . |
| 19 | If the company is large , there may be a special person to look after the scheme on a day-to-day basis : often this is someone in the personnel department . |
| 20 | The leader in the second paper , headed ‘ An Affront to Human Dignity , ’ was on much the same lines , ending with a demand for a Royal Commission to look into the ‘ hidden and possibly evil secrets of the laboratories of Britain 's universities ’ and an appeal to ‘ right-thinking people ’ to raise their voices against this outrageous treatment of a helpless baby . |