Example sentences of "[verb] [be] looking [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Our environment reporter Harriet Ryley has been looking at the changing attitude to what we throw away and how we deal with it . |
2 | And PC Week has been looking at the pre-release development kit for Windows NT , shipping this week , and finds that the new NT File System is not yet complete , and neither are the security features that are tied to it . |
3 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
4 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
5 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
6 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
7 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
8 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
9 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
10 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
11 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
12 | The third time she saw it Allen was with her but he must have been looking in the wrong place , for he did n't see it although she did n't understand how that could be . |
13 | This suggests , once again , that comprehension experiments may have been looking in the wrong place for evidence of young children 's linguistic competence . |
14 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
15 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
16 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
17 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
18 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
19 | Oh I du n no , I 've been looking at a few , not that probably , not in the top ten |
20 | We 've been looking at the contrasting features of these two . ’ |
21 | IN view of all the talk about a resumption of political talks , I 've been looking at the last word of the Ulster Unionists on the subject , delivered just before the plug was pulled last October . |
22 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
23 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
24 | Following our discussions , I have been looking into the financial aspects of the timeshare proposal . |
25 | In Chapters 3 and 4 we have been looking at the major groups of institutions that participate in the financial system . |
26 | I have been looking at the Labour party document for health in Scotland , ’ A |
27 | I have been looking at the following : two very ‘ liquid ’ liquid acrylics are Winsor & Newton Designer 's Liquid Acrylic Colours and the new ACP ArtistColour Professional by Rotring . |
28 | Alistair and Wayne show they have appreciated that the addition of one tower to the other will create a new tower that is taller than either of its component towers , whereas Matthew and Claire have been looking at the inverse operation — one brick less and the tower is lower . |
29 | ‘ I have been looking through the private Ledger , ’ Bragg said amiably . |