Example sentences of "[noun sg] of look [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading .
2 If you feel you can not do this , or if your relationship before the stroke or head injury was hostile anyway , you should discuss this problem with the doctor before undertaking the responsibility of looking after the patient .
3 Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children .
4 Why am I always given the responsibility of looking after the microphones , I 've done this for years well think about this brother here , he made cheese for years and he did n't like the job one bit , now is n't that strange , do you know why ?
5 The method I prefer , however , is just to make a play of looking at the coin after each few rubs on the elbow .
6 It 's just a case of looking for the body really .
7 When you 've reached the point where you want publication , where seeing your work in print is necessary to you in order to feel you 've made a permanent communication — then you have to begin the work of looking at the market , seeing what is published and by whom .
8 These preliminary results suggest the desirability of looking beyond the female labour market for an adequate characterization of economic influences on fertility .
9 This is not simply a question of looking at the differences in income , wealth , or educational opportunities between men and women or between different ethnic groups .
10 I sort of looked on the on the board and saw a thirteen two pony for sale been shown last year so it 's probably a sort of a working man 's pony , you know , that sort of class .
11 That 'll be alright so cos he slid his my brief case and er I got all the way home , no problem at all , I 'd got newspaper under the back , so it did n't scratch the back when I come to come down Mill Road this lorry 's go , I mean I got the tail gate up and er I sort of looked in the mirror , I thought oh my goodness my tail gate , I could hear it so and I braked a bit sharp and that slid down and scratched along the dash board !
12 I was saying to Jean this morning , cos it 's funny enough we went out to Dartington yesterday and we were sort of looking at the restaurant there at Cranks , and I said to her you know about this bowl of soup and then the erm
13 You , you get a tin er and whoever 's sort of looking after the tin , er somebody kicks it , one 'll kick the tin and then you all go and hide , and he has to find you before you can come back and kick the tin .
14 You usually look at that person , and when you coming to the end of your your your speel , you sort of look at the one person .
15 You want to sort of look at the whole picture together .
16 Erm ah , now that erm I think I was reasonably happy most of the time , erm I know if I can sort of look at the other side of the coin erm , I became a bit apprehensive as the war went on and er , obviously it was n't going to last much longer .
17 looks after , I , I 'm not sure exactly what he does , but he does sort of look after the Welsh Office 's own traffic counting programme .
18 Nonetheless , after he became Premier , Major promoted the 51-year-old Welshman to Foreign Office Minister with the key job of looking after the Maastricht Treaty .
19 Somehow the whole family managed to make it to Brisbane where Captain Burrows was given the important job of looking after the General 's flag .
20 I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking
21 Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside .
22 He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them .
23 Next time you visit Fenland Aviation Museum , make a point of looking at the photograph albums pertaining to the Merlin 's strip-down .
24 I do not make this point to suggest that all these theories are wrong in every detail , but to underline the importance of looking behind the apparently innocent measures on which so much of the global-system literature is based .
25 Mr Bishop said that the ACCA was in the process of looking at the job 's terms of reference within the context of the ACCA 's future strategy and would be contacting headhunters shortly .
26 Refusing to allow herself the indulgence of looking in the mirror and repairing her make-up , she walked slowly back down the hall and opened the door again with trembling hands .
27 The boy stared at the notches and gnarls in the trunk of the oak , afraid to face the voice , terrified at the prospect of looking upon the Almighty .
28 With the main objective of looking after the interests of those professional pilots who work within the air taxi and commuter airline business , this British organisation , IPA , has recently been formed .
29 I suppose it is the bat equivalent of looking at the world through a lens .
30 Experts believe it is all part of a wartime spirit of looking on the bright side .
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