Example sentences of "[adj] to look [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since changes in blood group antigen expression in the colon are associated with dysplasia and may be useful in screening for the development of colorectal carcinoma , we were particularly interested to look for a similar association between inappropriate expression of blood group antigens in the biliary tree and biliary dysplasia and cholangiocarcinoma . |
| 2 | She has been willing to look outside the civil service for advice on policy — to various ‘ think tanks ’ and individuals who have often reinforced her scepticism about traditional departmental policy views . |
| 3 | ‘ I would hope a club of the stature of Nottingham Forest might have been more willing to look at the domestic market if they wanted a young keeper . ’ |
| 4 | Sometimes ( he said ) he was almost afraid to look into the young couple 's faces . |
| 5 | If anyone is disposed to look for a golden lining in the effects of Typhoon Thelma — which , in November , killed about 7,000 people on the islands of Leyte and Negros in the central Philippines — it might be the resulting national outrage against illegal logging . |
| 6 | British filmmakers would not for much longer feel free to look behind the placid surface of English life . |
| 7 | He was also for much of the middle part of his life financially sufficiently insecure to look to the personal aid and patronage of others , including Claphamites , from whose psychologically stabilising intimacies he was excluded . |
| 8 | After observing the industrious building of castles in the air in the past few days , I thought it would be appropriate to look at an odd phenomenon that has puzzled meteorologists for the past ten years : the series of giant mushroom-shaped cloud formations round the periphery of the Siberian land-mass . |
| 9 | During Biblical times , some ancients thought moonlight was dangerous for one 's eyes but a more modern belief was that if you took a child , suffering from whooping cough , outside to look at the new moon , then it would effect a cure . |
| 10 | It is particularly instructive to look at the stratigraphical record of our kindred science of archaeology . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 'm supposed to look like a sexy urchin but Billy Bunter 's more like it . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's supposed to look like an open-top tourer of the 1930's , ’ said Tony . |
| 15 | I doubt it actually , I think they , it ought to be but I do n't think erm the people appointing are likely to look outside the immediate environs , and |
| 16 | Immediately on the right of the entrance , be sure to look through the small opening to catch a glimpse of part of the Romanesque façade which disappeared from view following work on the construction of Trivulzio 's mausoleum/chapel in the early sixteenth-century . |
| 17 | To understand the processes occurring at high Rayleigh number , it is helpful to look at the mean temperature distribution across the layer . |
| 18 | Those thinking about asking for funding might find it useful to look at the SOED booklet referred to above . |
| 19 | Senior managers should be able to look to the external environment in order to obtain messages about likely future trends , for example in the demand for services , resources that may be available , changes in the legislative framework , etc . |
| 20 | When healthy we are able to look with a cool eye at what medicine offers ; when we 're ill , we become like frightened children looking at mother and father to make us better . |
| 21 | When one visits a gallery it is important to look at the great works in the context of their period . |
| 22 | It is therefore important to look at the Biblical teaching on the painful question of divorce . |
| 23 | As well as identifying the contributory causes of a specific disaster , it is important to look at the positive actions taken afterwards . |
| 24 | Sites vary throughout the world , and it is important to look at the local situation . |
| 25 | Before leaving the top floor by the back stairs , or one or other of the lifts , it is important to look into the north-facing housemaids ' closet . |
| 26 | It is therefore important to look into the basic analysis which the Scarman Report puts forward in order to understand how the political agenda has developed , in response to the riots , since 1980 . |
| 27 | It is important to look behind the aggregate figures of local sourcing to try to identify where linkage effects could realistically be expected to result from the transnational practices of established and potential TNCs , and what the host authorities could realistically hope to do about it in terms of their transnational practices . |
| 28 | The court refused to investigate the validity of the Act saying that it was unable to look beyond the parliamentary roll of statutes . |
| 29 | Although as Eleanor Gordon has remarked , the family wage was hardly a reality for most Scottish working-class families , its notional existence had an impact on wages paid to women : if the normal " women 's wage " was low , employers taking on women for newly created jobs were unlikely to look to the male rate as a guide . |
| 30 | It was painted a drab olive grey to look like a German staff car and even had the monthly enemy air recognition panel painted on the bonnet . |