Example sentences of "to look [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may then have to look through reams of examples before you decide on the right person for the job . |
| 2 | The finders of this bombshell were two Justice Department officials , Brad Reynolds and John Richardson , who had been sent to North 's office to look through papers relating to the shipments to Iran . |
| 3 | Nutty went to look for Nails . |
| 4 | If the 17 keV neutrino were proved to exist , far more detailed surveys of beta decay would start to pin down its properties and to look for others . |
| 5 | The chi square test was used to look for differences between tokens of the two word classes in two linguistic environments ; but decisions concerning the environments and the type of differences to be examined depended on a great deal of phonological , sociolinguistic and historical linguistic information . |
| 6 | But to get the full benefit of the new tax regime these married women will need to look for investments that pay interest gross . |
| 7 | On the way we had to look for letters and treasure which was leaves , flowers and things . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll have to look for hours to find our spaceship . ’ |
| 9 | This neo-Marxist theoretical underpinning encourages Cockburn to look for changes in the requirements of capitalist production to explain what is happening in the sphere of local government . |
| 10 | With computer techniques , a researcher can analyse the image to look for changes in geology . |
| 11 | If you need increased quality in terms of output resolution it is vital to look for products that will connect to true typesetting equipment . |
| 12 | cash is available to look for effects in the field . |
| 13 | With Lewis this was not so , and it is probably vain to look for reasons . |
| 14 | I do n't have to look for reasons . |
| 15 | It is best to look for galls on oak in April or May . |
| 16 | You can also use the Search facility to look for bits of names . |
| 17 | If it did , crowds of enormous humans would come clumping all over our beloved forest to look for Minpins and our quiet homeland would be ruined . ’ |
| 18 | Having looked for elements of structure , the next stage is to look for elements of process , that is , what is going on' . |
| 19 | They should be taught to look for instances where : |
| 20 | They reason that while Iran and Iraq are fighting each other they have no time to look for adventures elsewhere in the region . ’ |
| 21 | After researching the project for a year , Paul Vincent decided to look for premises with a shop front that would make the centre easily accessible . |
| 22 | We ought to look for premises elsewhere . ’ |
| 23 | There is , however , no need to look for metaphors in the struggles of labouring women , including Mary Leapor , for whom education was a barely attainable luxury . |
| 24 | ‘ in this notoriously difficult area it is customary to look for analogies . |
| 25 | He threw it in the trolley and went off to look for things Elinor did n't like . |
| 26 | Once the Soviet Union allowed pluralism in Eastern Europe , America was prepared to look for areas where Soviet help could come in handy . |
| 27 | Chalmers 's form has been quite a contrast to last season , when he was often indecisive in his play and tended to look for gaps which rarely existed before passing or kicking . |
| 28 | In some perhaps not fully conscious way critics tend to look for faults in Othello , errors of personality or upbringing ( to neo-Freudians his sexual hang-ups ) , that will explain why he believes Iago and murders Desdemona . |
| 29 | Applied to ecology , hierarchy theory throws new light on old knowledge , it offers new models to test , and it tells ecologists where to look for phenomena that might not be apparent to human senses . |
| 30 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |