Example sentences of "[noun pl] look after [art] " in BNC.

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1 But there 've been a number of changes over the years , certainly prior to nineteen seventy four that would be the case , water boards supplying water , local councils treating treating the sewage , and the rivers authorities looking after the river pollution aspects .
2 Social networks within the estates furnish mutual aid such as babysitting , the companies look after the structural maintenance of the houses , and most residents have common ideas about what counts as enjoyable socialising which are not shared by Shetlanders ; for instance , it was often pointed out by incomers that dinner parties are a novelty to all Shetlanders except young professionals .
3 It 's true that there are a few natives here ( known as ‘ Eyeties ’ to the British colonials ) , who are useful to serve as maids , waiters or ‘ chaps to look after the swimming-pool ’ .
4 For example , some who have for years looked after a spouse may sometimes have deeply resented the way that this has taken over their lives , particularly perhaps if this feels forced by cultural assumptions such as ‘ appropriate ’ roles for women in the domestic setting .
5 English Heritage chairman Jocelyn Stevens has said the organisation needed to hive off some of its responsibilities looking after the nation 's monuments .
6 Moore is said to have been a pioneer in producing a periodical for seamen , the Mariners ' Journal , which was published briefly between 185I and 1854 , and to have advocated the first system of paid shore based officials to look after the interests of their members while they were at sea .
7 Once the flight arrived in Florida stewards and stewardesses joined the team of support workers to look after the children .
8 And you worked every second Sunday as a cattle look after the cattle every second Sunday .
9 The wards were very very bare and the families look after the patients , they come in and give them food and erm do a lot more for them than er they do in this country and erm there were two wards out of eight for tuberculosis , for T B , cos that 's a very big problem out in Kenya .
10 Organising community playgroups to look after the under-fives .
11 Accompanying them were two police officers to look after the security arrangements .
12 ‘ Britain was the first to pay farmers to look after the land and care for the countryside , while cutting back on production .
13 I began my career hand-setting lead type for printing on Adanas and treadle presses before moving first into the world of computers and then journalism while Jim , my co-director , had spent some 34 years with British Airways looking after the production of their timetables from data bases .
14 Nobody has the monopoly of wisdom and it 's important , it seems to me , that you have economists keeping an eye on the economics of the situation , sociologists looking after the cultural and individual choice sides , psychologists , people 's appraisal of their environment , geographers saying this sort of development is more appropriate there because of environmental conditions than there , and so on .
15 They employ two rangers to look after the district 's 1,200 footpaths , and work with farmers and landowners to make sure these well-used rights of way are kept in good condition .
16 ‘ In those days your servants looked after the heavy luggage .
17 But , until recently , to produce a professional looking result meant employing professionals to look after the work for you .
18 The mothers are sitting around on the grass while the playworkers look after the children .
19 they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming .
20 Through their work of feeding and clothing the children on the street , organising places for them to sleep in safety and providing them with a route out of the barrios , the staff of Casa Alianza have learnt how the police look after the children .
21 Hectic and colourful weekly markets attract farmers and traders from local villages , backstreet blacksmiths and workshops buzz away making anything from brass paraffin lamps to yacht spares , while busy quaysides look after a thriving local yacht charter industry .
22 The men looked after the fields and the garden .
23 put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little
24 Until the last world war there was a team of eight gardeners to look after the grounds .
25 Most people agreed that ranchers need greater financial incentives to look after the land , and that a BLM pilot programme , which reduces grazing prices per AUM if the land is kept in good shape , ought to be extended .
26 We left the older ones to look after the farm and we took the horses .
27 Convocation was again represented on GRADUATION DAYS 11 and 12 July 1991 , when two different committee members took part in the procession at each of the four congregations , whilst others looked after the ‘ free orange juice ’ bar , explained Convocation and handed out Convocation Registration forms to reinforce the information sent by post to all graduands .
28 Your care and our representatives to look after the interests of the population within your area .
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