Example sentences of "look at a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 MARTIN HARRISON looks at a way of protecting savings income
2 Here , Linda Parker looks at a range of beauty products that you can use at home to pamper yourself from head to toe
3 A camera always looks at a scene from a particular point of view .
4 If one suspends judgement and looks at a cross-section of these novels , one comes away quite impressed .
5 If one looks at a map of the line , bridge No 352 carried the country road from Rothley plain to Swithland village , beneath the line at Swithland sidings .
6 Brian Jordan looks at a selection of English wines , and some of the opportunities they provide
7 A designer looks at a table in a mariner different from a housewife or a furniture manufacturer .
8 The second looks at a number of countries ( ranging from the USA to Austria ) ; in each country , the project discusses the relation between the institutional structure and economic policy-making and outcomes at macro and micro levels , with reference to the following external shocks : OPEC 1 and 2 , world recession and rapid technological change .
9 It looks at a lesson as a sequence of natural units of teaching and learning .
10 ‘ WESTERN EUROPE ’ takes many forms ; but whether one looks at a group of about 10 nations , or a more complete group of 20 or so , the crucial difference from both the USA and Japan is the presence of a jumble of nation-states of different sizes and distinctive history .
11 Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’
12 At the same time , many critics show notable preference for stories with a moral conclusion over those which seem to offer simple entertainment ; and any critic who looks at a book from the angle of the potential reader rather than of the book itself is in danger of being tempted by false hierarchies .
13 It was thought that Green took his large prepared copper plates out into the landscape and worked on them in front of the actual view , but when one looks at a print of a recognisable location the image is not reversed as would have been the case if a direct drawing onto the plate had been made from nature .
14 It 's mildly encouraging now , though , when Tod looks at a woman in the street .
15 Having looked at a number of hypothetical fossil records varying in degree of completeness , they state that ‘ Sometimes fossils can be used in phytogenetic reconstruction without reference to stratigraphy : sometimes they can be used in combination with stratigraphy : sometimes they can not be used at all ; and sometimes phylogeny is in principle not reconstructible . ’
16 A working group made up of clinicians , consultants , GPs and other health professionals has looked at a number of options and has recommended that services be consolidated , and accommodation improvements made , at the Chest Hospital .
17 It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows .
18 Moreover , the cross-curricular Working Party which is looking at a variety of themes including Economic Awareness , will also make demands on the support of the local business community .
19 The allegations were confirmed by US Secretary of State James Baker who said on July 1 that the Bush administration was " looking at a variety of options " , said to include policing by UN guards , to halt the illegal flow of oil and commercial goods across the Iraqi-Jordanian border .
20 This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers .
21 We are looking at a cost of about five hundred pound for these , plus two hundred pound shipping charges , and we 're going to need four or five of them .
22 It did n't exactly lend weight to my decision to realize , when I 'd finished making it , that I was standing outside a second-hand jeweller 's looking at a selection of gold rings .
23 You often hear people say , looking at a work of abstract art : ‘ That would look nice as a curtain ’ .
24 She was looking at a man in an evening clothe .
25 So we 're l , we 're l , we 're looking at a couple of the options to see , you know , how much will it cost to actually put the money on the policy rather than going to the effort of writing it out , and it 's gon na cost about two hundred thousand pounds just to do that , erm and that , we need , we need to weigh that up with the cost of actually dealing with ten thousand letters to clients , ten thousand enquiries erm I just wondered what your thoughts were on how we should proceed .
26 Sir Neville Cardus , another great music critic writing about the history of music , likened the image of great composers such as Bach , Mozart and Beethoven as , ‘ Looking at a range of mountains , those names are on the summits then one comes to a plateau — and there standing out and rising from it is the cathedral of César Franck . ’
27 Users of injecting drugs can protect themselves by looking at a range of options for drug use other than injecting .
28 it 's not one that will inspire me with erm with , with great kind of nationalistic fervour as might have happened in the past when , when you look at nationalistic movements , so erm presumably we 're looking at a range of behaviour which goes from extreme fanatical group membership to relatively weak identification with a group but really does n't to anything else but saying you know if you ask me what I 'll say I was British .
29 Last week employment secretary Michael Howard announced he was looking at a range of measures to boost tourism in Britain currently worth £25bn a year .
30 The dealer got more and more paranoid sitting there , noticing these two guys in the corner who kept looking at a bit of paper then at him , then having a bit of a conflab .
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