Example sentences of "look [adv] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There has , however , been very little research which looks directly at this issue and thus at this stage suggestions about the normal levels of memory performance or about the variables which may influence it remain largely speculative .
2 He does appear to have looked carefully at various places , and in 1800 he settled in Ambleside .
3 Now , Guinness PLC company secretary explains : ‘ We have looked carefully at this question recently .
4 He only liked large men around him and must have looked askance at small Welshmen like T. E. Thomas and G. D. Morgan .
5 Having looked briefly at some features of particular NBFIs in section 4.1 , we want now to reflect on the extent to which they fulfil some of those functions which we said in section 2.3 a financial system is expected to fulfil .
6 At these moments he looks closely at each inch of her face , like a valuer frowningly examining some precious object .
7 Section 6.2 looks again at conventional applications development , but in the overall context of a database approach , and then we look at alternative ways of developing applications , again in a database environment .
8 But within this group he looks specifically at solid tumours and they only have a four year survival of twenty percent .
9 The first comprehensive study in Britain that looks specifically at Black women 's experience of domestic violence is currently nearing completion .
10 ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ?
11 But looking only at professional power drill sales , cordless drills are accounting for 50 per cent of the market .
12 First , there are inherent limitations in looking only at individual projects , which do not pick up some of the key problems discussed above , such as fungibility and co-ordination .
13 There is a danger in the search for good practice of looking only at those schools with good academic records .
14 In an hour they were all ready and stood in the parlour looking humorously at each other in their best shirts of white linen and clean breeches .
15 Commoners were discouraged from looking directly at any part of his person other than his feet .
16 You can SCAN , which involves just looking quickly at each page , to pick out anything which you recognise as being relevant to you , and which you can then read in detail ( scanning involves looking for keywords ) .
17 Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them .
18 Our balance sheet is strong and we are looking carefully at further acquisitions in both the oil and non-oil sectors .
19 Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs .
20 The major clubs are looking sympathetically at any scheme which will reduce the number of matches to be played next season .
21 Mark Fisher , the UK Labour Party Shadow Minister for the Arts and Media , has already stated that they are looking independently at various ideas for funding living artists and admitted that they would be considered an exhibition royalty ‘ earlier and more enthusiastically ’ than other methods such as droit de suite ( qv ) .
22 So I was surprised when one morning , while filling the kettle at the tap in the yard , I noticed some of our neighbours looking across at this cottage where a painter was taking the ‘ To Let ’ sign out of the window .
23 OIL GIANT BP is looking hard at alternative sources of energy .
24 By looking hard at any way in which we can raise extra income for this authority .
25 The company 's plans indicate the way in which newspapers , having modernised printing methods , are looking closely at editorial costs .
26 So , looking again at these legends with a possible energy explanation in mind , we can postulate that , in the case of healing , it is the energy which heals , particularly with repeated movement in one direction and prolonged contact .
27 The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion .
28 I would like therefore to begin by looking briefly at that context and then move onto the skills which the diplomates will train their students to achieve , the level of skills their students are likely to have already and outline some of the issues met by the Dip .
29 Looking ahead at general prospects for UK intermodal freight transport , he said a key issue would be higher rail access priority for potential service operators .
30 From the outset we were aware of the lack of material looking specifically at Black women 's experiences of domestic violence .
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