Example sentences of "look to " in BNC.

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1 If we are to continue to meet the rapidly growing needs of those who look to us for care and prevention , we urgently need you to share the challenge with us .
2 If you want a mixture of species and colours , grow individual bulbs separately in plant pots and then plant up an arrangement using bulbs which have reached the same stage of development and look to be just about to flower .
3 Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for .
4 HEALTH authorities look to be at risk of another round of bed closures , service cuts and deferred developments this winter , despite the fact that the year 's financial settlement for the NHS originally looked generous .
5 While people look to the Tories to make money , they look to Labour to spend it to more social purpose .
6 While people look to the Tories to make money , they look to Labour to spend it to more social purpose .
7 But they were as aware as anyone of the variables of timing and electoral fortune which could dictate the succession or lead Tory MPs to ‘ skip a generation ’ and look to such figures as John Major and Chris Patten .
8 LOOK TO EUROPE
9 The young churches do not have the money to build them and so they quite rightly look to us Catholics of the rich countries of the world .
10 Professional agencies look to our problems , be they medical , psychological , or moral .
11 Go to him , abide in him , trust in him , look to him .
12 The German people look to us !
13 As in 1813 the people looked to us to destroy the Napoleonic terror , so today in 1943 they look to us to destroy the terror of National Socialism .
14 If this is a universal understanding of the grief process , how does the church assist the bereaved in the first stage of their loss , bearing in mind that many people who make little or no claim to Christian faith still look to the church to provide a fitting funeral rite ?
15 City : Strategists look to overseas
16 Religious leaders in the provinces look to Saudi Arabia and to Iran .
17 The division between those who look naturally to the private sector and those who look to the public is geographical as much as ideological .
18 They look to you to guide them .
19 We look to the police to protect us .
20 Reader , if male thou art , look to thy purse , if female to thy heart .
21 When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash .
22 In practice , many family members look to the female members to take on the lion 's share of responsibility for children , elderly relatives , the sick and the disabled , as well as domestic work , sometimes in addition to taking employment outside the home .
23 Under the arch , look to your left at Plečnik 's dramatic staircase rising through three floors , severe with its hypostyle of stumpy Doric columns ( 1927–31 ) , later known as the Plečnik Room .
24 Facing the Černín Palace , look to your right across to the small buildings ( 1602 ) that once belonged to the Capuchins .
25 A committed runner himself and one of the original running shoe repair specialists , Davis claims that compared with the boom years of the mid-eighties fewer people now look to the skills of the cobbler .
26 Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge .
27 We do not behave simply according to our instincts , but look to others to follow and imitate .
28 Helpless , look to Thee for grace ;
29 We look to the independent film-makers ’ movement to help us do that , and we welcome their work to the screen .
30 If we look to the example of shopping , will more convenient arrangements attract older customers ?
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