Example sentences of "to look to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pius XI had made it clear in 1930 , subsequent to the success of the Vatican-Italian Concordat of 1929 , that good sons of the church with political power were to look to the church itself for guidance in their statesmanship : |
| 2 | But there is no need to look to ‘ crackpot messiahs ’ or fundamentalist theocracies to find a decisive religious rejection of Fukuyama 's reading of human history . |
| 3 | This summer the Government accepted recommendations from its Secondary Examinations and Assessment Council to put A and AS-levels into a clear , common framework and to look to further ways of updating and broadening sixth form studies . |
| 4 | There are many reasons why fashion has begun to look to Cocteau , not simply because it is his centenary and his Hellenic graphics have begun to adorn cult objects in designer stores ( on white vases at Oggetti , on black watch faces at the Watch Gallery ) . |
| 5 | The quota , in short , forced some British filmmakers to be realistic about the economic constraints operating in British filmmaking , and to look to what could be achieved within them rather than simply hoping that film budgets could rise on some magic carpet to figures close to those of Hollywood pictures . |
| 6 | Korda had seen that producers would have to look to television as an alternative source of revenue . |
| 7 | Today America must be able to look to Europe for support in containing less predictable threats to the values they have in common from outside Europe . |
| 8 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |
| 9 | But it was still imperative to look to the horizon hopefully , or quit . |
| 10 | By late September , the local doctor concluded that the lad was sinking fast , and told him ( according to the diary ) ‘ that notwithstanding all the efforts which have been made to check the disease , they had not done so … and advised him to look to God to prepare him for whatever might be the event of the disease . |
| 11 | For a time the eastern empire was able to maintain itself in Italy , but thereafter the popes had to look to the new Frankish power in the north for their temporal defences . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're doing everything we can to be positive , to look to the future , and to be realistic about the present , ’ said that chirpy fatuity , Neil Kinnock , on the News ‘ 92 phone-in , perhaps the most dementing phone-in of them all ( Radio 1 , daily at 6.30 pm ) . |
| 13 | Country people may well have to look to themselves in the future , and to the skills of men like Dave Dunn . |
| 14 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 15 | When Charles cut down the sacred tree Irminsul , he was destroying the one central element of Saxony that all tribes seemed to look to and respect . |
| 16 | Chemistry has to look to its public image — people are not certain whether it is a good thing or not . |
| 17 | That defeat caused France — who had previously looked to Russia as an ally — to look to Britain for mutual support , enhancing the Entente Cordiale which had developed following King Edward 's visit to Paris , with Queen Alexandra , in May 1903 . |
| 18 | There are thus two possible lines of inquiry ; the first , the argument from descent , is to look to relationships likely to connect the human species with ape-like ancestors ; the second is to compare man with less closely related primates that have followed a similar evolutionary path in invading the savannah lands , an argument therefore by analogy . |
| 19 | The key , however , will be to move toward a more market-oriented basis and not to look to the government for protection . |
| 20 | The response to the dilemma by a growing number of schools is to completely abandon the sale of food at breaks and to look to other means to generate funds . |
| 21 | The natural solution in such cases is to look to the National Trust or the National Trust for Scotland . |
| 22 | What we are trying to say is that we do n't have to look to our mothers for everything . |
| 23 | Greatly did the Cid rejoice when he saw him alive and sound , and he ordered his chains to be taken off ; and then he left Alvar Fañez to look to the spoil , and went into Valencia with a hundred knights . |
| 24 | The discovery of vast quantities of gas in Groningen province transformed the Dutch economy and also caused the oil companies to look to the North Sea as a possible source of hydrocarbon . |
| 25 | By this I mean we need to look to the cause of the problem , not just to the symptoms which can sometimes be the signs of a more serious underlying health problem ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 26 | Each time you change , turn just your head to look to the side , first the right then the left . |
| 27 | Governing bodies may sometimes wish to look to independent consultants for advice in these matters . |
| 28 | When we have cares , we are not to look to pagan religious practices and philosophies for respite , but we are to be as the Apostle Peter put it ‘ Casting all your care upon him , for he careth for you . ’ |
| 29 | The only hope in a tricky situation is to look to your behaviour and use it to influence the behaviour of others for the better . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , with BTG required by ministers to look to short-term profitability , sources of ready funds for British biotechnology have all but dried up . |