Example sentences of "are looking at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even more difficult in an audition situation where they are looking at your height , weight and how much stage you can fill by your very presence . |
| 2 | Rather we are looking at those beliefs , supported by significant power bases within each bloc , which have won out in the political process in the past seventy years and still appear to be doing so , in some cases with much decreased vitality . |
| 3 | What remains uncertain is whether consciousness is a separate phenomenon which needs explaining , like language or vision , or whether it is simply an attribute of certain neural processes in the same way as high reflectance is an attribute of the piece of paper you are looking at while you read this , something which is simply part of the physical characteristics of the brain or the paper . |
| 4 | They are aware of the need to improve their length so much that they put in the extra line so they are looking at a 1 or 1.5m ( 4 or 5ft ) area . |
| 5 | We are looking at ways to develop this as well as ways to ensure that groups are kept informed of any activity in their area . |
| 6 | Answering questions at a meeting with foreign journalists , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ We are looking at a scheme to have some people from Hong Kong , but it could n't be anything like the total number . ’ |
| 7 | Consultants are looking at various sites and will report to the council in November . |
| 8 | ‘ I would like Gary to have another fight this year ( there is a Wembley date available ) and we are looking at people in a similar class to Biggs , ’ Terry Lawless said . |
| 9 | The Metropolitan Police are co-ordinating the survey and six other forces , Avon and Somerset , Devon and Cornwall , Northumbria , North Wales , Sussex and South Yorkshire , are looking at specific police roles . |
| 10 | They are looking at job-weighting , concepts of ‘ stewardship ’ and performance measurement in the knowledge that greater flexibility in pay ( and recruitment ) will be crucial factors in escaping from what Mr Montagu calls ‘ the rigidities that have bedevilled us in the past ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ We are looking at Continental institutions such as pension funds which take a more long-term view or are more entrepreneurial . ’ |
| 12 | The New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago commodity exchanges are looking at programme trades carried out last July which may have flouted market rules and contributed to sudden movements in both the Dow Jones index and the S&P 500 futures index . |
| 13 | ‘ We are looking at what you might loosely call superloos . |
| 14 | A mix of Republicans and Democrats are looking at the exemption . |
| 15 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 16 | The existence of these different anatomical plans , without intermediates , again raises the question of whether there are only a small number of possible body plans , represented by the existing phyla , or whether we are looking at the end results of a series of historical accidents . |
| 17 | We are looking at options which will almost certainly include a Nasdaq listing . |
| 18 | And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before . |
| 19 | Prize money in Britain covers only about one quarter of these costs , which is why some owners are looking at the larger prizes available in other countries . |
| 20 | We are looking at young people who are likely to be sexually active . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The problem is that the judges are looking at extremes — maybe comparing an ad selling commemorative medals of the election with one featuring designer Christmas cards . |
| 22 | ‘ When people vote on the day , they are looking at the party who will form the government , and in this part of the country they do not want socialism , ’ said Mr Peter Hodgson , the Conservatives ' Western Area chairman , who was confident the Conservatives would retain all their seats . |
| 23 | A Ford spokesman said : ‘ We are looking at various aspects of our high performance models , not just the hot hatches … it would be fair to say that we are being a lot more discreet about the badging and ‘ dressing up ’ of some models now . ’ |
| 24 | Tack on VAT at the standard rate , and you are looking at a total tax take of £1.33 ( surprisingly , the same as on diesel ) and £1.60 respectively . |
| 25 | An important qualification is that we are looking at groups of professionals and the manner in which they are organised rather than at individual teachers — at this latter level there can be little doubt that many individual teachers do respond to client needs despite the structure around them . |
| 26 | What we are looking at is the development of a decentralised approach to management which by definition can not be reduced to a few single issues , although the level of management self-awareness is critical in all of them . |
| 27 | We are looking at ways in which the internal management of local authorities might become more effective . |
| 28 | That said , the whole area of interactive video — if that is indeed where your proposal lies — is so far from being a developed market that we are looking at it only in the most tentative of ways . |
| 29 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 30 | In other words you are looking at actions . |