Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] looking [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything Peter is more conscious of looking after the other guys . |
| 2 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |
| 3 | After a while Moran tired of looking at the newspapers and went outside though it was almost night . |
| 4 | Tired of looking at the blank wall at the side of the house , he asked students from the Cheltenham Art College to submit ideas on decoration . |
| 5 | Women were especially involved in looking after the sick animals where their patience and ‘ mothering instinct ’ were valuable . |
| 6 | My other concern is that no strategy can be competent without looking at the urban fringe — the countryside around the City , and by the nature of the Green Belt this includes land in Midlothian and East Lothian . |
| 7 | ‘ After that I suppose I 'll start training for another marathon , but I 've never been good at looking to the future . |
| 8 | It is difficult to understand how the Government can claim to be concerned about looking after the welfare of citizens when there has been a fourfold increase in the incidence of food poisoning in the past 10 years . |
| 9 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
| 10 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 11 | But the executive is responsible for looking after the safety of 6 million more workers . |
| 12 | The consortium responsible for looking after the women 's housing and financial affairs , as well as providing some monitoring of the quality of service , had temporarily to reduce its operations because of staff shortages . |
| 13 | When the Royal Africa Company collapsed under the weight of its fixed costs , the need for permanent bases on the West African coast — essential if only because half-a-dozen other European countries were setting up forts there — led the government first to try to organize the slave-trading merchants into a loosely organized company which would be responsible for looking after the forts , and then to provide a subsidy to keep them going . |
| 14 | Over the centuries , the Superintendents who 've been responsible for looking after the garden , have each played a major part in it 's growth and development . |
| 15 | The Bank of England is responsible for looking after the government 's finances . |
| 16 | British customers have got used to looking for the date stamp on goods so that they can identify the ‘ life ’ of a product . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose Alice is capable of looking after the shop ? ’ |
| 18 | red-eyed from looking in the light , |
| 19 | You are relying upon experience to judge the roll , but use the information available by looking at the contours of the green . |
| 20 | Penny always gets landed with looking after the new kids in the class . |
| 21 | I have another eyepiece on the end which is suitable for looking at the stars and planets . |
| 22 | Nor would he accept that he should work out the sum due by looking at the cost of providing a type of car which Mr Shove ‘ might reasonably be expected to acquire in his present circumstances ’ . |
| 23 | Researchers within the tradition of accommodation theory have been most active in looking at the detail of " monolingual " interactions in an attempt to see exactly what it is that speakers are doing . |