Example sentences of "looking at an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down a little tunnel at the Mesdag museum , up a flight of stairs , and you are standing atop a dune looking at an enormous 360-degree panorama painted in 1881 . |
| 2 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 3 | Looking at an example of one such fraud will indicate this basic procedure . |
| 4 | Children are sometimes told ‘ it is rude to stare ’ , but cat-lovers often forget this rule when they are looking at an approaching feline . |
| 5 | While doing this , though , he 'd be looking at an amazingly porky sprite and thinking , ‘ That 's supposed to be me ! ? ’ |
| 6 | Does this mean that we are looking at an item produced by a cabinet-maker who was also able to furnish funerals ? |
| 7 | Open up the System Box , and you might be looking at an IBM . |
| 8 | She was forty-six : her face was unlined , her hair still golden without grey in it , her body trim , very trim , yet he seemed to be looking at an old woman . |
| 9 | Looking at an example from recognition test data , an original handwritten word was students , but was recognised as sludents . |
| 10 | This is satisfactory enough , though it is often necessary to perch the tripod on top of a platform or a solid table , as otherwise you will have to be something of a contortionist when looking at an object high in the sky ( incidentally , the same is true of a small refracting telescope ) . |
| 11 | It is strangely comforting , looking at an alphabet that is totally incomprehensible , a liberation from the strain of trying to understand . |
| 12 | When you 're looking at an , a a a an average profit for the group erm you |
| 13 | The beginner should be looking at an initial purchase of one sail to allow them to learn in light winds of up to force two . |
| 14 | At £49.95 , it 's affordable for the one-off job ( it could easily save you that in architect 's fees alone if you 're looking at an extension ) , and it does n't require a mega-PC to run it . |
| 15 | An Indian lady from India sits in reception looking at an Indian film magazine and listening to Indian music . |
| 16 | When I write again in twelve months ’ time I shall be extremely disappointed if , world events permitting , we have not met our targets and are not looking at an improved set of results . |
| 17 | The first of these properties is readily appreciated by looking at an atlas . |
| 18 | ‘ Sweetie , you are looking at an old moose who just ca n't figure out where he took the wrong trail and he 'll never get back up that hill again . |
| 19 | It 's become unfashionable because the media is now looking at an alternative scapegoat for the problems the Conservative Party , that 's why it 's a reason and what is arising from the Labour leadership at the moment is purely an attempt to placate the media . |
| 20 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 21 | Then you just er interpolate so erm if you are looking at an F one fifty test this , which we 've got tables here that give F one thirty and F one forty , oh sorry F one forty and F one sixty just interpolate so the critical value would be nought point nought five , sorry , four point nought five , right , so you just average the difference there . |
| 22 | That does mean that they have already had a very difficult exercise in terms of looking at an , an efficiency effectiveness distribution of funding and how they manage the service , and that 's very much tied in with the children 's services plan , which Mike referred to earlier on , and which is later on the agenda . |
| 23 | Not great poetry , by any means ; but it convinces me that Crabbe and Peter Grimes and myself do stop beside an opening sluice , and that we are looking at an actual English tideway , and not at some vague , vast imaginary waterfall , which crashes from nowhere to nowhere . |
| 24 | generally you 're looking at an eighteen month 's sales period |
| 25 | Yes , say if you 're looking at an E O that feels that they 're really happy with the client group , and things like that that 's fine . |
| 26 | Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement . |
| 27 | You 're asked to support the general move , that we have set out from this report , and you 're asked to agree to St Clements and East Ward , and I think we 've heard Mandy and Phil acknowledge that there may well be a case for looking at an area of council housing , which we will leave them to do , and also to approve the set of objectives , which I particularly welcome , on page sixty-two and sixty-three , which will amount to a work programme , which I would have thought we were all very pleased to see . |