Example sentences of "[prep] look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Over the centuries , the Superintendents who 've been responsible for looking after the garden , have each played a major part in it 's growth and development . |
| 32 | When the Royal Africa Company collapsed under the weight of its fixed costs , the need for permanent bases on the West African coast — essential if only because half-a-dozen other European countries were setting up forts there — led the government first to try to organize the slave-trading merchants into a loosely organized company which would be responsible for looking after the forts , and then to provide a subsidy to keep them going . |
| 33 | It 's not worth looking on the box for the news because it 's , they 'll be nothing new . |
| 34 | Before getting to grips with the corporatism as such , it is worth looking at the idea of the local state . |
| 35 | then it 's worth looking at the idea . |
| 36 | Before the Digital Servo Interface is described it may be worth looking at the principles of operation of these model servos . |
| 37 | It may be worth looking at the pair made up of Phi¹ ; ( 3.6 ) which is orange , and Phi² ; ( 4.5 ) which is white . |
| 38 | It is worth looking at the Delta-Epsilon pair , close to Gamma . |
| 39 | It is worth looking at the way the Soviet leader 's behaviour changed in the course of the crisis . |
| 40 | For examples of carefully worded questions in public opinion polls it is worth looking at the newspapers to see how very carefully the professional market research firms word their questions when they are asking ordinary people for their current political views . |
| 41 | ‘ But would it perhaps just be worth looking at the petrol gauge ? ’ |
| 42 | It is , however , worth looking at the parent fish when spawning is completed to check that they have not been damaged . |
| 43 | " If you do not have an existing service agreement with Olympus it is certainly worth looking at the options available — whatever type of instrument is in use . " |
| 44 | For evidence of this , as well as of his continuing interest in the outcast and distressed , it is worth looking at the Postscript to Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems ( 1835 ) . |
| 45 | If , however , this investment of time and effort for training and research into the market is beyond the reach of your dealership , there are , after all , only so many things that can be tackled in a day , it is worth looking at the alternatives . |
| 46 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 47 | In fact you sound as if you 've hardly a minute to yourself between looking after the grandchildren and caring for your husband . |
| 48 | Throughout the Ottoman world , centuries of arbitrary and frequently oppressive rule reinforced age-old peasant tendencies towards looking to the clan as the mainstay of life and regarding everybody outside with suspicion and hostility . |
| 49 | Over the last 20 years there has been a move away from looking at children and adults in isolation towards looking at the needs of both , in terms of the family . |
| 50 | ‘ I sat on the train and could see other commuters walking past looking at the man in horror . |
| 51 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 52 | Notice how the first step of looking through the window is less threatening than the second one of opening the door . |
| 53 | She prayed they would not think of looking under the bed . |
| 54 | It was Barron who had made a show of looking at the figures but it was MacQuillan who had screamed at Pascoe down the telephone accusing him of fraud . |
| 55 | One way of looking at the effects of the kind of industry they work in is to see whether black people and whites living in the same area — inner cities for example — have similar rates of unemployment . |
| 56 | Erm and , and that wants to be part of that exercise , really , of , of looking at the reasons a a and telling us whether we need to take any action . |
| 57 | For example , it suggests a way of looking at the relationship between science and technology which focuses not on the subject matter of the different disciplines , but rather the stance towards it and use made of it . |
| 58 | A useful way of looking at the development of groups was made by B. Tuckman in 1965 . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | However , on the physical science course , this module took the form of looking at the problems students might face as scientific managers in industry : issues like risk management , the problems of pollution , dealing with pressure groups and preparing public reports . |