Example sentences of "look at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us look at the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 2 | You should also look at the ways in which the physical movements of the actor are organised to suit the restraints of the small screen . |
| 3 | We can look at the twin sources for the state 's legitimacy in the context of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 4 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 5 | I did not look at the rest of it , deliberately . |
| 6 | This historic forum will look at the development of Black-African , Caribbean , Asian — involvement in factual television , particularly in the last ten years , the era of Channel 4 and the specialist BBC Units . |
| 7 | BLACKS ON THE BOX will look at the movement of black programmes from off-peak ‘ access ’ magazine slots to less restricted prime time one-off specials and documentary series . |
| 8 | One session will look at the role of cities as major providers of huge new leisure facilities and sporting venues . |
| 9 | We will look at the new Channel in relation to existing television whether broadcast , satellite or cable . |
| 10 | Do n't look at the fields immediately below , because the slopes can not be seen from directly above . |
| 11 | However , do n't look at the speed ; try to go by feel and tighten the turn until you feel or hear the airflow start to break away around the wing-root . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I did look at the stripogram group because I was so horrified at the thought that they might do it again . |
| 14 | Rutherford cites Lawrence 's own remark in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom to the effect that this identification ‘ quitted me of my English self , and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes : they destroyed it all for me ’ . |
| 15 | First we shall look at the theories in their work concerning the evolution of kinship and marriage . |
| 16 | Anyway , the old fuddy-duddies can look at the antiques . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Would you like to go down and look at the inscriptions on the slabs ? ’ |
| 18 | Often , I would n't bother to try things on — I 'd look at the price tag and think ‘ I 've got to have this , ’ especially if I thought it was a ‘ bargain ’ I might not see again . |
| 19 | ‘ And yet you can look at the thing in Star Wars and the sounds it makes are just perfect for it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ To do so they should look at the yield of the shares and the strength of the company 's management , ’ he said . |
| 21 | But sometimes you can look at the Third World , animal slaughter , pollution and so on and just feel the depressing resignation that ‘ young ’ people are supposed to kick against the establishment . |
| 22 | ‘ Because it does n't look at the object of music . |
| 23 | To see what role this typically empiricist claim has in Hobbes 's thought , we should look at the details of his account of philosophical knowledge , knowledge acquired by reason or ‘ true ratiocination ’ . |
| 24 | First , let us look at the Christian idea of creation . |
| 25 | Before we turn to that material we must look at the course the narrative has taken since the beginning of Genesis , reminding ourselves yet again of familiar events , and skimming through areas we have not looked at so far . |
| 26 | In a third class of cases , where the right-minded observer would be unsure , the court would look at the defendant 's motive and , only if that was indecent , would the offence be made out . |
| 27 | In this essay I shall look at the way in which female sexuality has been constructed from a particular biology which has had to exclude female desire . |
| 28 | ‘ What will happen , ’ he says , ‘ is that Congress will look at the new possibilities for animal suffering that genetic engineering itself might create , and they will try and address those in legislation , or public policy … |
| 29 | It is a salutary exercise to turn around and look at the Fifties and the Cold War from the East instead of the West . |
| 30 | Most of all , he must not look at the food on his plate . |