Example sentences of "they look [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Do they look about the same ?
2 Did n't they look at the real man ? ’
3 They look at the two good pay days from rebel tours to South Africa and also my benefit with Middlesex in 1986 .
4 So we er , schools can approach us as the Engineering Council and say , we 'd like some help , and quite obviously , they all want some help when they look at the actual syllabus of a design and technology itself !
5 I see ( and Summerchild sees ) the young provincial historian becoming even more silent and preoccupied than Summerchild himself as they look at the worn carpets and unoccupied chairs .
6 This fruitful distinction is possible because here as elsewhere Marx and Engels are not bound in their analysis simply by legal forms ; they look at the social system as a whole .
7 They look at the social causes — economic , political and cultural — which affect fertility and choices about reproduction .
8 They regard it as significant that the eighth and ninth century saw an increasing volume of exchanges not initiated by the state , but " privately-generated " ; and they look for the new wealth-creators among lords and peasants , finding in rural markets crucial mechanisms of exchange .
9 How would they like a stranger to be in control of the way they look for the next six months ? ’
10 So , many leading-edge manufacturers are searching for ways to enhance their workers ' capabilities and improve labour relations , even as they look to the new technology to cut labour costs as well . ’
11 With little possibility of much fulfilment in this world , they look to the next ; they are for ever visiting temples and mosques ( for this they are required to revert to their male clothes ) and going on pilgrimage to Hindu and Muslim shrines over the subcontinent .
12 They look to the local officer , Juan Vargas for help and advice .
13 Similarly , the harmful beings see meat when they look upon the human body , the human ‘ soul ’ ( ruwai ) , or human smell , and they will also set about trying to catch these .
14 They look after the pregnant woman rather than ‘ the pregnancy ’ and are a source of practical and emotional support as well as health care to the woman and her baby .
15 In 1987 the Lib Dems came second to the Conservatives in two thirds of the seats and this time they look like the main challengers .
16 And they look like the fucking The Management .
17 Increasingly they looked to the central government for more grants and financial help .
18 Well they , they had gone into the production of er steel er turning er in such a way that er they looked for the best possible tools er in order , one , that they could produce the item more cheaply as far as the employing class is concerned , they want to produce it as cheap as they can and probably sell it the dearest .
19 The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea .
20 There was a little wistfulness about these village girls when they looked at the rich convent girls in their expensive clothes .
21 They looked at the black box .
22 They looked at the low asset base and in the end it was decided to go for a trade sale . ’
23 ‘ I 'm afraid stocks are still pathetically low , ’ Louise said as they looked at the half dozen dresses that were the only ones the assistant had in Constance 's size .
24 They looked at the same things together as they walked through the ruins of Milan .
25 I think they did these figures a week or so before xmas … which explains the figures if they looked at the high scoring charts for each club .
26 In this survey they looked at the different kinds of training and jobs undertaken by black people and found that they were likely to be doing worse jobs than white youth irrespective of their qualifications .
27 I do n't know what the guards thought when they looked through the closed-circuit television that was always trained on us here and saw three men , heads motionless , looking down fixedly at some spot on the ground , making curious , swinging arm movements .
28 They looked through the open doorway , and there , smiling in at them , was a tall , pleasant-looking lady .
29 Their social circle was more geographically widespread and they looked beyond the local village for their friends and kin .
30 Ceramic floor tiles gained tremendously in popularity when holidaymakers saw how attractive they looked in the Continental settings .
  Next page