Example sentences of "[noun] have been look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 2 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 3 | Our Political Editor Peter Hayes has been looking at Labour 's week in Brighton . |
| 4 | The purpose of this study has been to look at the different ways sixth-form pupils find and use information when undertaking a school assignment . |
| 5 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 6 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
| 7 | The Betting Shop association had been looking into the circumstances surrounding the horse 's win at Lingfield two weeks ago . |
| 8 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 9 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 10 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 11 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 12 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 13 | ‘ Creed 's been looking for you . ’ |
| 14 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 15 | The issue has been looked into by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 16 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 17 | For three and a half years the Beeson Ward at Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has been looking after elderly people — those who need specialist care after major surgery . |
| 18 | The reason the peseta has not blown before now may be because the Bank of Spain has been looking after its currency in a novel way . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mr Redmond had been looking after the woodyard where he worked while his employer was on a cruise to restore his health , and Sarah told Anne that her father had been given fifty pounds as a mark of appreciation when his employer returned . |
| 21 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 22 | Parenting breakdown meant that the child had been looked after by someone other than its mother for at least six months . |
| 23 | Maybe this is what England have been looking for , a team that looks symmetrical on the scorecard , at least . |
| 24 | A COUPLE who know the heartache of losing a child have been looking after Brian McDermott 's grave . |
| 25 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 26 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 27 | The Malvern Hills have been looked after by the Conservators for around one hundred and ten years.Now they 're asking Parliament for more powers.And it 's that request which has led to controversy . |
| 28 | Watkins says Bill Joy 's Sun Labs team has been looking at micro-kernel technologies under the auspices of Spring , Sun 's blue-sky , rolling research effort . |
| 29 | The number of people who die from the habit is increasing every year , and a special conference has been looking at ways of tackling the problem . |
| 30 | One of the most powerful forms of inquiry in recent years has been to look at Renaissance writing produced outside the cultural elite , bringing attention to texts marginalised and ignored by the institutional processes which maintains the traditional canon . |