Example sentences of "looked to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believing revanche to be either unrealizable , or not worth the price to be paid , it looked to colonies , social progress and economic expansion for French achievement . |
| 2 | Other factors included the fact that the liberal-nationalist unification movement looked to Prussia as the natural leader of Germany : the Frankfurt Assembly offered the King of Prussia the imperial crown in 1849 but he rejected it , disliking their excessive parliamentary vision for the new Germany . |
| 3 | Muldoon looked to Mueller for support . |
| 4 | In the past Europe looked to America for support against a predictable Soviet threat to the survival of European democracy . |
| 5 | With permission granted to operate a service out of Britain , Virgin now looked to America for permission from the American regulatory bodies , the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Aviation Authority , to fly into that country . |
| 6 | In a sense both Marx , who hailed the British conquest of India and the American conquest of half Mexico as historically progressive at this time , and the progressive elements in Mexico or India , who looked to alliance with the United States or the British Raj against their own traditionalists ( see chapter 7 above ) , were recognising the same global situation . |
| 7 | The student complied and , as the wings levelled , X looked to port . |
| 8 | But we now realize the extent to which these scientists looked to France and later to Germany for a lead . |
| 9 | It looked to Peter like the gin and tonics she had sunk at the bar earlier that evening had gone straight to her head . |
| 10 | I think we looked to Peter , North Yorkshire . |
| 11 | And yet the various integrationist movements , brash or hesitant , in the 1940s looked to Britain for leadership , and clung to the hope that Britain would be absorbed , not least because of concerns over security . |
| 12 | The third requirement grew out of this — namely , as America became more involved in this conflict , so it looked to Britain to send at least a token force to assist in the war in Vietnam , or failing that to give strong diplomatic backing to the United States . |
| 13 | Quite obviously , the black population which attached so much importance to Johnson in the early years of the century was very different to the one which looked to Ali for leads in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 14 | Equally , there were others such as Plataia or Thespiai which looked to Athens instead . |
| 15 | Ruth looked to Adam to see if that word , Undry , would rouse him . |
| 16 | Each in turn looked to others in the audience to help enforce it . |
| 17 | Hoomey found he looked to Jazz for support , trusting his judgement . |
| 18 | Eastwood had lost the services of fly-half Scott Johnson and coach Geoff Johnson looked to Roebuck to play the important brains and link role instead of the custodian role at fullback . |
| 19 | The unions looked to nationalization to achieve a strong industry . |
| 20 | At the beginning of the Peloponnesian War the Greek world looked to Sparta as liberator ( Thuc. ii.8 ) . |
| 21 | She looked to Alexandra disgustingly spry and healthy , rosy and refreshed after an excellent night and full of happy anticipation at hearing of the dinner party . |
| 22 | Main Street looked to Manhattan for clever and not-so-clever ways to finance leveraged buy-outs , or hedge their revenues and balance sheets . |
| 23 | However ‘ decadent ’ his taste , Modigliani looked to literature , Dante , Lautréamont , D'Annunzio . |
| 24 | SHARES and sterling were becalmed yesterday as dealers looked to company results to provide a clear lead on the UK economic outlook . |
| 25 | The moneylenders then looked to Sim for the cash and threatened him and his family . |
| 26 | On this table Lee could see boxes , lots and lots of boxes , several brown square and oblong boxes , some imprinted with glass pieces , some engraved , some painted in blues and yellows , one octagonal maroon velvet box with a sliver of white silk escaping from its lid , two tiny onyx boxes and one large black box that looked to Lee like a coffin . |
| 27 | A green lurex dress shifted itself up and down her scraggy body according to the dictates of her arm movements , and her face looked to Lee like a Restoration comedy mask , the only possible reason for the thickness and high colour of its make-up being the pockmarks underneath . |
| 28 | He looked to West Germany for support , holding two meetings with Konrad Adenauer during the second half of 1958 . |
| 29 | The actual day 's business of shopping was over ; for everybody else in the city it looked to Boy like it was time to go home , spent up and carrying bags full of things . |
| 30 | The Church looked to Jesus as the new lawgiver who had abrogated the ceremonial precepts of the Old Covenant or Testament but retained its moral precepts . |