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

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1 How is it that the demand for an independent Sikh state , once seen as the beginning of a threat to the unity of India , suddenly looks like an idea whose time has gone ?
2 However , a few managers , probably because of the pressure of work , had only looked at the business plan the night before . ’
3 Signor Matarazzo personally looks after the comfort of his guests , and , if you decide to sample his restaurant , you can be certain that whatever is on the menu of the day will be well worth eating and reasonably priced .
4 Er no I think it wa I think it was our , our mistake er , there was there were sixteen of us there and seven of us had sort of clubbed together looked at the menu and it 's it 's fifteen ninety five , to , the rich main course banquet
5 At very least this habit will get us out of a rigid frame of mind which only looks at the problem in away determined by experience .
6 So looks like a day in tomorrow .
7 Er and therefore it looks at erm the indirect impact of development erm and it 's it 's more sophisticated one might say than merely looking at the quality of the land .
8 While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so .
9 Merely looking for a person is not an assault : Arobieke [ 1988 ] Crim LR 314 ( CA ) .
10 and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes .
11 Anxiously , he spent the days watching and waiting , constantly looking down the road , longing for his return .
12 that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale
13 Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time .
14 No have a look , you 're only looking at the beginning of it here try again
15 ‘ I 'm only looking for a taxi . ’
16 ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in .
17 But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now .
18 is only looking in the mirror
19 Tt and we 're obviously looking at a process of land reform which has , has undergone a number of changes and I think we , we 've begun to see some of the influences on those changes and particularly over the , the last week or so the this has .
20 Therefore , they were left with the option of investing millions of pounds or closing them , and perhaps looking at the building of a new reactor .
21 Shrewsbury stood around there , apparently looking for the offside and in the end it was an awful effort at goal .
22 There was one vehicle there , a car with two figures sitting in the front seats and apparently looking at the road ahead of them .
23 Anybody who believes that Yugoslavia could be dealt with as Saddam Hussein 's Iraq was dealt with had better look at the terrain .
24 The reformers would do better to look at the health-care regimes they oversee .
25 With such a man as their representative , Albanians can only look to the West for help before it is too late .
26 It is no real objection to Bentham that we can only look for an approximation to the truth about these matters of pleasure and pain .
27 You should always remember that you can only look after the patient successfully if you also look after yourself .
28 But then of course Paula was so lovely she had only to look at a boy to have him crazy about her , Sally thought wretchedly .
29 One has only to look at the regularity with which courses on modelling now appear on the MRS lists .
30 Once at the Tate , they usually had time only to look at the sea and river pieces , the Turners and the Whistlers .
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