Example sentences of "to look at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage Glasser is invited to look at a tenement close — by Bernard , a Communist who was to fight in Spain and return with an altered mind . |
| 2 | Last night ministers continued to look at a compromise prepared by the EC commissioner Sir Leon Brittan , incorporating a Dutch-led formula where the higher level would be the norm but governments would have the option of asking Brussels to intervene for mergers breaking £1.4bn . |
| 3 | As we passed over the Thames we paused to look at a steamer unloading great slabs of white and brown marble . |
| 4 | This enormous gift that , despite all the trying things that went with it , Phoebe had received ; this capacity to look at a thing and know that , because it must be done , it is the doing of it that brings freedom and salvation . |
| 5 | Pearce lists these as two important qualities for a top manager together with being able to look at a problem and see the two or three key factors . |
| 6 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 7 | But Strasbourg 's anti-nicotine brigade has won a consolation prize : the health and social-affairs commissioner , Mrs Vasso Papandreou , has promised to look at a ban in the future . |
| 8 | Anyway , she was only going to look at a cottage . |
| 9 | We put this to you as an answer to all slimmers who say they only need to look at a single cake or bar of chocolate to put on a substantial amount of fat . |
| 10 | Before moving on to discuss the process of loss in relation to the death of someone close to us , it is helpful to look at a less significant but nevertheless important and unexpected loss and see our reaction there . |
| 11 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |
| 12 | PEOPLE travel from all over the world to look at a scrap-metal merchants in Shrewsbury . |
| 13 | It is odd — one of the anomalies of science — that it is possible to look at a single entity as if it were either one thing or another , apparently quite different thing . |
| 14 | Then they were asked to look at a young boy . |
| 15 | There were very few birdwatchers , about sixteen in the county , and it was quite different in those days — there was none of this rushing around the countryside , 2,000 people going to look at a rare bird . |
| 16 | I prefer to look at a nice fashion magazine , French Vogue or Italian Vogue . |
| 17 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 18 | 2 You are selling cars ; you have gone out to look at a customer 's part exchange . |
| 19 | The holistic approach , therefore , calls upon us to look at a situation from all angles . |
| 20 | Then it goes on to look at a second play , B , and the replies to that . |
| 21 | As will be appreciated , this is a very artificial categorization , little more than a rather crude device to enable us to look at a complex matter . |
| 22 | I had told him to look at a video of the race and he would see that it was through my efforts that we had won the bronze . |
| 23 | But then of course Paula was so lovely she had only to look at a boy to have him crazy about her , Sally thought wretchedly . |
| 24 | Apart from pure nostalgia , perhaps this is because in the ‘ old days ’ it was fairly easy to look at a faulty circuit , identify components used for specific functions , replace them and get the set going again whether it was commercially or home-made . |
| 25 | However he assured her that she could control the pain and all she had to do to achieve this was to look at a certain corner of the ward ceiling and the pain would go . |
| 26 | Have you ever said , ‘ I think I was meant to be big ’ or ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2 lbs ( 0.9kg ) ’ or ‘ I ca n't diet ’ ? |
| 27 | ‘ I was a big baby — I 'm obviously meant to be this size ’ , ‘ all my family are big ’ , ‘ I 've tried every diet , they just do n't seem to work for me ’ , ‘ I only have to look at a cream cake and I gain 2lbs ( 0.9kg ) ! ’ |
| 28 | I 'm going out to look at a pony , and do n't forget to double-lock Wayne 's door . ’ |
| 29 | You only have to look at a prole in this book and it rolls over to have its tummy tickled . |
| 30 | Then James had to look at a tray containing 20 objects and , when the tray was removed , see how many he could remember . |