Example sentences of "[verb] look at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They would 've looked at the lights , I know .
2 And the tutor 's impressions of one student are unlikely to remain vivid after he/she has looked at the work of a few more students .
3 Your work so far has looked at the case studies of three kinds of activities primary , secondary , and tertiary .
4 Woodward ( 1958 ) has looked at the relationship between technology and organisational performance in the manufacturing industry
5 With regard to the Bill before us today , education is a most important issue and I doubt whether the House , despite the intentions of the few who are actively interested , has looked at the problems that have arisen .
6 Nordhaus has looked at the evidence in nine countries over the period 1947–72 .
7 James Bond , for example , has looked at the estates of both Abingdon and Evesham Abbeys , and clearly shown the variety of topographical features which can still be distinguished on their scattered estates .
8 Mr Benn , who often comes to our help at these moments , has promised that as soon as a Labour government under Mr Kinnock has looked at the books and realised the true extent of the crisis , it will realise the need for serious measures .
9 This chapter has looked at the importance of temporary jobs as a source of flows both from unemployment into employment and from employment into unemployment .
10 East Devon District Council has looked at the paperwork and has realized that the Community Council is going to match anything that they give , so I 've spoken to their recycling officer and he thinks that the way the budget is , we 're very likely to get one of the containers from them , which would be matched by another from the Community Council .
11 The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone .
12 ‘ Now I 'm in the voucher scheme I feel safer knowing that the council has looked at the people it employs , and if there 's any difficulty I can go to Joan [ the manager ] . ’
13 A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) .
14 He lies looking at the waves touch the land , crying for his cousin .
15 One might also consider looking at the range of employment/unemployment experience and labour market participation and activity rates , although international comparisons of unemployment are notoriously difficult to make given the variation in definitions and data collection .
16 Party discipline in the Senate is even weaker than in the House ; several powerful senators have a better-than-nodding acquaintance with the petrochemical industry ; and the Senate Finance Committee , which starts looking at the bill on June 7th , has a Democratic majority of only 11 to nine .
17 He does n't come up to the desk straightaway , but gives me a nod and starts looking at the flowers , really closely , like he really knew about them .
18 Middlesbrough Council 's assistant chief environmental health officer David Rigby explained : ‘ The audit will include looking at the waste produced by companies and what they do with it , the raw materials used , energy costs and the whole effect of the process . ’
19 Reading was difficult for me , especially when it involved looking at the chalkboard , and I soon found myself being classed as ‘ thick ’ .
20 They suffer from fatigue , they hear of housewives being stressed , and they say look at the stress of housework .
21 Unlike the United States Supreme Court , which can delve deep into the deliberations of the Founding Fathers to try to elucidate what was meant by a particular provision of the Constitution , British courts are not permitted to look at the proceedings of Parliament in order to determine what Parliament really meant .
22 He bent to look at the fastening , then picked up one of the white stones and struck ; the glass tinkled thinly , a horrible sound .
23 a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work .
24 One only has to look at the woodcuts of Henri II 's entry into Rouen in 1550 — which Mary very probably witnessed — to get a breath-taking impression of the splendour of royal pageantry , with the king himself riding on a chariot of immense size and grandeur , accompanied by heavily caparisoned elephants .
25 I erm unfortunately , er , agree with the previous speaker that a very strong calvinistic streak runs through me and I believe in the two parent family and also in the efforts that you should make to keep the family ge together , but I think too , there 's sp , er , perceptions of individuals and particularly , younger generations now in society , are so much different from my own perceptions when I initially became married and started my own family but what society has to look at the perceptions and expectations of the individuals in society .
26 One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria .
27 The family proceedings court has to look at the Welfare Checklist ( section 1 , 1989 Children Act ) and , as the writers say , the conflict between the child 's welfare being paramount and the need to protect the community present a real paradox .
28 One only has to look at the statistics to see how unrepresentative Xuxa 's world is .
29 One only has to look at the achievements of David Gower , Monica Seles , John McEnroe and Jimmy White , to mention just a few , to realise that left-handers can excel at their chosen sport .
30 a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work .
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