Example sentences of "can look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modernity , then , is incurably materialistic but it can look towards either collectivism or individualism . |
| 2 | And while many people can look towards the advantages of a spinal unit at , Medical Centre , people are failing to look at the disadvantages that that will cause for the provision of orthopaedic services in , in , in , in . |
| 3 | — Barclays can look over the burden of looking after your share register . |
| 4 | Whilst belaying you can look across a sweeping valley covered by vineyards and broken up by lines of cyprus trees . |
| 5 | You can look across the Rio Grande river in Texas and see American-owned factories , deregulated and non-unionised , on the Mexican side . |
| 6 | From my home in Sandwich bay , on a clear day I can look across the English channel and see the coast of France . |
| 7 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 8 | To assess the impact of more differentiated media sources we can look for differences between their different audiences : differences between readers of highbrow or lowbrow papers , for example , or between readers of right-wing and left-wing papers . |
| 9 | It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain . |
| 10 | Of course because there are no living trilobites we can not find direct confirmation of this hypothesis , but we can look for other arthropods that have the same modifications of the eyes , for example , in the present day oceans . |
| 11 | A small apple tree , a garden pea or even a strawberry plant pass through various stages during spring and summer and children can look for the first appearance of leaves and flowers and fruit . |
| 12 | Children can look for shadows of trees , walls , houses , swings , climbing frames , etc. , comparing the shape of the original with its shadow . |
| 13 | You can look for damp patches though , particularly on outside walls . |
| 14 | I can look for reasons for what I did and call those reasons excuses ; what he did to Alice , how he bullied Mother , how I hated him . |
| 15 | As an individual , I can look for ways of dealing with conflict in my own life through negotiation and avoiding imposing my will on others . |
| 16 | Then maybe we can look for some food . ’ |
| 17 | " If we do n't run into any trouble and the brook takes us through the wood , " he thought , " we really shall be clear of the warren and then we can look for somewhere to rest for a bit . |
| 18 | Only you can look for associations , explanations and seek amplification of what it was your unconscious mind was trying to communicate to you while you slept — and dreamed . |
| 19 | In non-ELT materials you can look for situations which are likely to feature highly predictable language : scenes set in restaurants or shops , at parties , the reception desk or the dining table can sometimes be picked out of a longer programme and used in isolation to give an example of particular language functions in operation . |
| 20 | Individual questions about behavioural development have however been answered , and we can look for patterns in them . |
| 21 | Something else you can look for is an unusual feature that may attract fish to it . |
| 22 | Using a Complete Shakespeare on CD , you can look for all cases where these two words are used within , say , five lines of each other ; and you 'll get your answer within a minute or so . |
| 23 | In the compact-disc OED , on the other hand , you can look for the word " love " not just in the entry for " love " but in every entry in the whole dictionary ; the search will find " love " in any quotation anywhere in the entire dictionary . |
| 24 | Mark tells us so much about who Jesus is and what he 's come for just by showing us that one miracle but what I 'm suggesting to you here is that you can look for greater meaning in it , further symbolism . |
| 25 | They can look for something |
| 26 | If you want a huge order oh you can look for your own . |
| 27 | We can look at the twin sources for the state 's legitimacy in the context of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 28 | We can look at the relationship between perceptions of paper bias and the electors ' own partisanship amongst ‘ readers of right-wing papers ’ , though it has to be remembered that different Voters are Evaluating different individual papers . |
| 29 | You can look at it ’ . ’ |
| 30 | Anyway , the old fuddy-duddies can look at the antiques . ’ |