Example sentences of "[prep] looking [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ However , after looking at the still pictures I realised that Gerrard and Obolensky were in excellent positions for the pass to the right .
2 I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me .
3 Figure 4.1 suggests one way of looking at the emerging relationships .
4 If anything Peter is more conscious of looking after the other guys .
5 Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children .
6 Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ?
7 When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought .
8 Quite often , this begins with looking at the enticing pictures in the catalogues .
9 Penny always gets landed with looking after the new kids in the class .
10 THOSE who are charged with looking after the royal stables are given the title of equerry , but this has nothing to do with equus , the Latin word for a horse .
11 Vivien is not alone in thinking that the European professionals are making a mistake in looking for the same privileges and superstar treatment that is nowadays meted out to their American sisters .
12 Women were especially involved in looking after the sick animals where their patience and ‘ mothering instinct ’ were valuable .
13 Before looking at the two conferences under consideration , it is useful to construct an outline income and expenditure account , which might look something like
14 Before looking at the different propositions of the theory , it is necessary to describe briefly the two forms of government financial assistance : income tax rebates and supplementary benefit .
15 There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act .
16 Although in Burmah Oil there was a reluctance to accept the " class " arguments without looking at the actual contents of the documents in question , subsequent cases have accepted class arguments without question .
17 He walked down the hill without looking at the dead men , slowly and with difficulty and pain .
18 A causal explanation for these events is not to be found by looking at the mental processes of particular social groups or categories involved in them since any traits so identified are as likely to be effects as causes .
19 In particular , it would be a mistake to suppose that the causes and remedies of the prison numbers crisis are to be found simply by looking at the final stages of the process , namely the custodial decisions of the courts .
20 What is the solution to these problems of unity and sustaining interest ? I think it can best be found by looking at the visual arts , and having myself once been an architect I would like to use an architectural illustration .
21 explain this by looking at the political reasons why many women do not receive the pensions that would raise them economically ; that is , they are excluded from key decision-making structures .
22 Brenda Denvir takes up one of the most pressing contemporary issues , that of the multiple roles of assessment in schools , by looking at the intimately-related questions of ‘ what are we assessing ? ’ and , ‘ what are we assessing for ? ’
23 ALEXANDER ARROWSMITH continues our in-depth Koi series by looking at the many diseases which may affect Koi .
24 Now we continue by looking at the inside workings of the process at the national level , beginning with a discussion of executives and assemblies .
25 We begin by looking at the negative emotions .
26 The associated jargon and rates may be introduced by looking at the following figures for 1984 extracted from Tables D1.1 and D2.1 of the 1984 Annual Report of the Registrar General for Scotland .
27 You can tell whether a text you have is a critical or a popular edition by looking at the following features : — Does it have a note on the text , explaining spelling conventions used , etc. ? — Does it have an introduction by an editor ? — Does it have footnotes or endnotes ? — Is it a numbered part of a multi-volume edition ?
28 No longer can the worth of an investment proposal be evaluated by looking at the immediate terms of the deal : the longer lasting impact of the structure of alliances must also be taken into account .
29 Yet this shift of interest away from ‘ primitive ’ societies has not provided us with a new framework of analysis for we still tend to ‘ tribalise ’ complex societies by looking at the simpler aspects e.g. rural communities only .
30 We begin this chapter , accordingly , by looking at the different types of literary essay it is possible to write , considering first the variety of focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt .
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