Example sentences of "look [prep] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 While the quality of English wines can now compare with estate-grown and bottled wines from Germany or Alsace — in that they are fairly uniform — they bear the crisply full-flowered taste we often look for in a good table wine or aperitif .
2 One factor which investors look for in a safe haven is liquidity .
3 If sun , sand and sea are the main ingredients you look for in a holiday , then you 'll really enjoy your stay here , and when you come camping with club in the South of France you get the best of both these worlds — the chance to enjoy a superb sun-filled holiday with a really lively bunch of friendly people at an inclusive price which gives you value for money .
4 Karen Mayo-Chandler 's allegations made lascivious reading : ‘ When girls are asked what they look for in a man , they always talk about sensitive things , like intellect , kindness and a sense of humour .
5 The temperament we look for in our dog primarily depends on the work or function assigned to him .
6 Thus Quine can make use of psychological facts to inform someone such as Stroud that all we look for in inquiry is accurate prediction and control of ‘ triggerings of our sensory receptors ’ , and can show no interest in further sceptical possibilities .
7 You 'll find lists of publishers and what magazines look for in the Writers ' & Artists ' Yearbook ( A & C Black , £7.95 ) .
8 The comments about ‘ relevance ’ came more frequently from women than from men , and I shall argue in Chapter 6 that there are important differences between what male and female students look for in physics .
9 ‘ The things I look for in a car are power steering , central locking , heating that works and a stereo .
10 Is n't that what families look for in safes especially when they invite a lawyer to see fair play .
11 ‘ So what you look for in a child is intelligence .
12 Because those are the areas that I look after for the business .
13 More usually the allocation emerges from a pattern of related decisions including what can be reliably and economically achieved by hardware and software , what the allocated tasks look like as integrated jobs for the human operators , the skills and traditions of the available work-force , the importance of safety and reliability and so on ( Table 1.7 ) .
14 What would the baptism of Jesus look like to a Balinese ?
15 Wonder what I look like to her .
16 But what did this way of life look like at street level ?
17 What does a Funeral Director look like on holiday ? ’
18 See what they look like on this one .
19 You know when you put those boots on and the string rather because they they are what they they look like with the they 're called boots .
20 There is an improvement to Ami Pro 's style sheets in that there is now a Viewer so that you can see what they look like before selecting one .
21 But er the colouring is really anybody that 's really good at the colouring you know what I mean , they could do wonderful things you know , you could make plain wood look like like erm sort of walnut .
22 Well I do n't give a damn what I look like in bloody glasses .
23 After all , we all know what you look like by now ! ’
24 And then you can you know , I mean , technically we have expanded cos if you look in in a couple of years there was me and you doing it was n't there ?
25 If you look from towards , which was a large house in a clump of trees , at the far side was a pavilion which was the clubhouse , they used to hold air displays and pleasure flights , also they had commercial flights .
26 As to those who force horses forward with blows in such a case , they only inspire them with greater terror ; for they imagine , when they suffer any pain at such a time , that what they look upon with alarm is in some way the cause of it .
27 It used to be taken for granted that the person who earned the highest salary in an organisation was the general manager or managing director : the one at the top , the one that most people look to as the boss .
28 The feedback we get is that we 're the ones from Manchester that people look to for the music .
29 Well every domestic I go to , I look at as a potential murder .
30 This poses a problem in that a school with high ability pupils would expect ‘ good ’ results but it may not be a ‘ good school ’ — a problem we look at under ‘ Issues ’ later in this chapter .
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