Example sentences of "[not/n't] look at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He did not look at the still bowing surveyors as he spoke , but at Alexei .
2 Thus , in construing a written agreement the court is entitled to take account of surrounding circumstances ( with reference to which the words of the agreement were used ) and the object appearing from those circumstances that the person had in view ; but the court may not look at the prior negotiations of the parties as an aid to construction of the written contract resulting from those negotiations ( Prenn v Simmonds [ 1971 ] 3 All ER 237 ) .
3 She did not look at the old man , so she failed to see the shrewd yet kindly glance he gave her .
4 The first is whether in construing ambiguous or obscure statutory provisions your Lordships should relax the historic rule that the courts must not look at the Parliamentary history of legislation or Hansard for the purpose of construing such legislation .
5 The carcass , unfortunately , was in quite an advanced state of decomposition by the time we got to it , so we could not look at the detailed histology ( cell structure ) of the internal organs or the central nervous system .
6 We did not look at the histological correlate of the inflammatory mediators as for ethical reasons we did not perform sigmoidoscopy and rectal biopsy .
7 Coffin did not look at the severed hands , where he imagined the signs of a fight would show .
8 When his coolie picked up the shafts and broke into his loping stride , Joseph found he could n't look at the narrow , sweat-streaked shoulders bobbing in front of him without seeing the bleeding welts caused by the French colon 's cane .
9 The fact that they ca n't look at the real problems makes them attack someone or something else .
10 you know , I I I do n't , I do n't look at the first four pages in the Express cos that 's
11 If you w u unfortunately we did n't look at the financial commentary as the first item .
12 Do n't look at the whole answer and then cover it up again and think right okay that 's a start and then try and do all I mean you 're not going to have the book to help you in the exam .
13 but when I was eleven years old I did n't look at the sixth form and do jus just because they were doing something I wanted to do it , I might have admired them but if they were smoking that would n't make me want to smoke .
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