Example sentences of "[noun] to look [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 An attempt to look at the overall picture was made by the Royal Commission on Legal Services : its recommendations were widely criticised and largely ignored .
2 My youngest son , Joseph , is very interested in history , and we are going to Hue to look at the Imperial City and watch the emperor perform the traditional ceremonies of Tet . "
3 With this in mind he has established a small scientific strategic and research programme to look at the analytical programme from a broader perspective .
4 More will have to go in order to recruit the highly-paid staff from the nuclear industry to look after the nuclear installations ’ inspectorate 's work on Britain 's revived nuclear power programme .
5 And I 'd like to extend that discussion this week concerning channels to look at the biological properties of channels , that is viewing th their activities in a physio in a physiological role .
6 She was consoled , too , to have them in her house where they made an uncommon amount of noise and were certainly not easy guests but their beaming countenances and determination to look on the bright side of everything lightened the atmosphere immensely .
7 For US television , on the other hand , competition for the same audience within the same time-slot drives producers and planners to look for the new exploitation angle which will differentiate their product within the market , propelling genres and conventions along the track of transformation and mutation .
8 DAVID HEWSON and GEOFFREY BOOT visited the Socata GA division at Tarbes to look at the French attitude towards making light aircraft .
9 Then they felt that the most effective way of dealing with it would be for each main committee to look at the various aspects in detail , rather than take the and miss everything , best for each of the main committees to look in detail at each part .
10 His European contacts have given him ideas — such as the Dutch government 's research projects to look into the specific health needs of the country 's future .
11 It is about all manner of motoring matters such as improvements in vehicle safety and construction , raising of driving standards and an attempt to get the authorities to look at the whole business of motoring in a different way for the good of all .
12 For comparison purposes it is interesting to note that searching a sequential ASCII file using a standard Unix command ( grep ) takes approximately two minutes to look for the 22 words of the test sentence , not including all the alternative candidate strings for each of these word positions .
13 Will the Leader of the House find time today to plan a journey from south Norfolk to north-west Norfolk to look at the local health services ?
14 I went behind the music-stool to look at the Greek pottery .
15 A number of that 25-35 age range were brought in as one of two groups who had an opportunity to look at the various stages while the possible designs were still being examined .
16 would prefer that too er partly because it would give everybody an opportunity to look at the particular problem er in , in , in , in , in a shorter period of time , erm we are also cheered by the recent visit to England by the minister there Mr who made certain promises , I think it would be useful if Mr who a candidate at the meeting would reiterate his promises publicly today , thank you Chairman .
17 Mary took the opportunity to look around the small country fair .
18 If we think of linguistic analysis as usually being linked to the sentence as the maximum unit of grammar , then the study of discourse attempts to look at the larger contexts in which sentences occur .
19 Erm , if we are asking Mr to look at the long-term viability and the ways of preserving that , those options may be other than option one which was what you moved , and I think it 's rather premature to actually go down a road that says we preserve it in it 's present form with some disposals , when , we are asking for a report for it 's future viability , which may mean complete disposal , or may not , and I think , that , that 's why I 've seconded Mr 's amendment , because it 's right we should wait for that that report to come to property , know the full facts , and then we can make a decision as to which option we want for the County Farms estate .
20 They have got the platform of competence and confidence to look beyond the day-to-day realities of school and classroom life and ask themselves hard questions about it .
21 The best place to look for the substantive law relating to citizenship is not under ‘ citizenship ’ in law books .
22 The shallow bays may be a degree or two warmer , and are always the first place to look in the early days , but the deeps will stay cold until real strength returns to the sun .
23 ‘ That 's part of the adventure , ’ Carrie 's mother had said , and not just to cheer them up : it was her nature to look on the bright side .
24 But the trial shows the need to look with the utmost care at staff selection procedures .
25 But it is going to be necessary because , by the time the later subjects come on stream , there will certainly be a need to look at the first ones again , such as maths and science .
26 In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli .
27 The public will get their first chance to look around the twelve acre gardens .
28 Charles Fleming and I had a chance to look around the beautiful shops , and eat out at the RED SEA PALACE HOTEL ( pure magic by the way ) .
29 One afternoon towards the end of the voyage , when the sun was beating down and a fresh northerly wind was speeding the ship southwards , she leant out over the gunwale to look at the low strip of land that was in sight on the port beam .
30 Lifting further , he bent his head to look under the broad limb , once so thrilling with power .
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