Example sentences of "be look [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked .
2 If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful .
3 It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience .
4 Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule .
5 If it had been someone else 's funeral George would have been looking out for the nearest pub .
6 If she had n't been looking out for the signpost , she could easily have driven past without even realising it was there .
7 Rogers had been looking out of a window .
8 The success — I am looking out of the window at the thickly carpeted mountainside — comes from the knowledge of shared weakness , the weakness of both men and women in matters of sex and passion .
9 I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons .
10 A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’
11 For this reason , an all-round practice gives better training than a specialised one — but it may be well worth taking articles in a specialised firm if you are assured that they are looking out for a bright young man/woman like you to be a partner .
12 MORE people are looking in at the local , if figures from West Country brewer Devenish are any guide .
13 Dutch authorities are looking in to the incident .
14 I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out .
15 Cos er , Mark last week said er , he 'd been approached by a wedding to do a disco , he said well I ca n't it 's a Saturday , and then he said well , you know , where are you having the reception , said well we 're looking round at the moment .
16 They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand .
17 Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup
18 ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player .
19 Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner .
20 It can be looked on as a discussion document and its coincidence with the real world is verified in discussions with the various users .
21 If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in .
22 The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help .
23 The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature .
24 The naive inductivist account of science , which I will outline in the following sections , can be looked on as an attempt to formalize this popular picture of science .
25 For this reason , it should not be looked on as an end user language .
26 But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues .
27 In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office .
28 Time spent on this may be looked up as an investment in that if essential job elements are identified , then the people involved in the recruitment process will be less inclined to develop the criteria as they go along .
29 Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name .
30 Companies tend to use a ‘ firewall ’ along their route into Internet so that individuals can not be looked up in the directory of users — a sort of ex directory .
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