Example sentences of "[noun] have been look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As soon as Fiver had found a place to clamber out , he led the way along the edge to the bank which Hazel had been looking at before Hawkbit spoke to him . |
| 32 | Sometimes this way of working is just what health workers have been looking for , but it has to be acknowledged that such an approach does not fit easily with the conventional mode of western medicine and what we have described as the medical model . |
| 33 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |
| 34 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 35 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 36 | Borough councillors heard yesterday that 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and officers had been looking at ways of getting the message across . |
| 37 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 38 | A friend had been looking after them . |
| 39 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 40 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 41 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 42 | Suspension figures have been looked at to see whether certain groups ( Afro-Caribbean boys for example ) are over-represented in comparison with their proportion in the school as a whole . |
| 43 | You will receive a written reply from the officer once your complaint has been looked into . |
| 44 | And PC Week has been looking at the pre-release development kit for Windows NT , shipping this week , and finds that the new NT File System is not yet complete , and neither are the security features that are tied to it . |
| 45 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 46 | Finally , public relations has been looked at in some detail , because this area has expanded most over recent years and its relationship to the selling function is a very direct one as the sales force is increasingly being called upon to carry out PR activity . |
| 47 | The other strategy has been to look for a species that is alive today that has physical characteristics similar to those of our common ancestor , and has the same lifestyle , and to use its brain as a model for the primitive brain . |
| 48 | The health authority had been looking for a site since 1989 but found difficulty in obtaining suitable premises in terms of locality , accessibility and size of ground floor accommodation . |
| 49 | Mary had been looked after by a nanny until the age of seven and had then stayed intermittently with elderly relatives . |
| 50 | ‘ The traditional techniques have been to look at these under high power microscopes ’ . |
| 51 | But Ferguson countered : ‘ A lot of people have been looking at Eric 's move with a very negative attitude . |
| 52 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 53 | ‘ Up to now , many of these people have been looking after themselves . |
| 54 | Although the virus has now disappeared , RSPCA staff have been looking after orphaned pups , seals damaged by fishing nets and victims of gales , as well as treating a variety of birds . |
| 55 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | HP CEO John Young told a meeting of analysts last week that HP had been looking at both the USL and OSF kernels , but had no plans in place to license USL technology . |
| 58 | They were barely inside the front door when the elderly housekeeper appeared and told Cinzia that Signorina Cook had been looking for her . |
| 59 | ‘ Well , is n't that a terrible poor ibex ! ’ exclaimed Mrs Healy , having identified easily what the girls had been looking at . |
| 60 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |