Example sentences of "[be] looking [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Premier League , rather than seek one major sponsor , have been looking towards the World Cup/European Championship idea of group backers who could contribute around £25m a year . |
| 2 | Oisin had drawn breath to respond to this , when Eogan , who had been looking towards the forest , suddenly said , ‘ What 's that ? ’ |
| 3 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 4 | In fact I have just been looking at a place in South Audley Street , not far from Mattli . |
| 5 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 6 | So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy . |
| 7 | All the dealers who habitually haunt Sothebys salerooms have been looking at the furniture and glassware and silver . |
| 8 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 9 | AS a third part of a nanny share I have been looking at the law and the availability of Liability Insurance . |
| 10 | Thus far I have , in the main , been looking at the problem in the context of a conflict between parents and the minor , either the minor consenting and the parents refusing consent or the minor refusing consent and the parents giving it . |
| 11 | " I 've been looking at the cat in your window . " |
| 12 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 13 | Marketing chiefs ‘ have been looking at the mathematics and have worked out that volume counts , ’ says Cunningham , pointing to Unix 's one million a year run rate against the huge base of Windows users — increasing at one million a month — many of which will be targeted for NT . |
| 14 | MEANWHILE , back at the ranch , Michael Murray , a banker , Ian MacLaurin , chairman of Tesco , the TCCB accountant , Brian Downin , the promotional and marketing man , and three others , including one isolated first-class cricketer , have been looking at the structure of the first-class game and the counties ' verdict will be known by the time you read this . |
| 15 | As the charity Oxfam moves into its fiftieth year , Central News South has been looking at the work it does away from the headlines of war and natural disaster . |
| 16 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 17 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 18 | Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen . |
| 19 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 20 | A House of Commons select committee , which has been looking at the feasibility of using ‘ combined heat and power ’ ( CHP ) , last week reported that the idea is about to come into its own in Britain . |
| 21 | The Centre has been looking at the productivity record of profit-sharing and non-profit-sharing firms , and the extent to which Japanese experience supports the idea that profit-sharing is a defence against stagflation . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been looking at the basin where the sewage tank used to be . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 24 | I have been looking at the Opposition amendment . |
| 25 | When he looked at the picture of Tace he might have been looking into a mirror . |
| 26 | He has been looking into the possibility of a career outside cricket as a pilot because of further problems with his back . |
| 27 | Th the notes that 're attached are actually for er he 's been looking into the matter and basically it 's for information only really |
| 28 | I have been looking for a recording ( with some difficulty ) , since not many shops are prepared to let me listen to different interpretations ) , indeed I purchased the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden/Marc Ermler offering only to be disappointed , all because I wanted CD sound quality to replace a home-made cassette of a live Radio 3 broadcast ( should I be telling you this ? ) |
| 29 | Darlington councillor Frank Robson , chairman of the town 's twinning sub-committee , said : ‘ We already have twin towns in Germany and France and have been looking for a twin in Eastern Europe for some time . |
| 30 | Scientific director Gordon McVie said : ‘ We have been looking for a link between diet and cancer for 20 years now and this could be it . |