Example sentences of "[adv] looking [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and therefore it looks at erm the indirect impact of development erm and it 's it 's more sophisticated one might say than merely looking at the quality of the land . |
| 2 | While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so . |
| 3 | Merely looking for a person is not an assault : Arobieke [ 1988 ] Crim LR 314 ( CA ) . |
| 4 | and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes . |
| 5 | Anxiously , he spent the days watching and waiting , constantly looking down the road , longing for his return . |
| 6 | that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale |
| 7 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 8 | No have a look , you 're only looking at the beginning of it here try again |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm only looking for a taxi . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , God help him , poor gentleman , ’ Kate laughed , pleased at male incompetence , ‘ he was only looking for the oven when I got in . |
| 11 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 12 | is only looking in the mirror |
| 13 | Tt and we 're obviously looking at a process of land reform which has , has undergone a number of changes and I think we , we 've begun to see some of the influences on those changes and particularly over the , the last week or so the this has . |
| 14 | Therefore , they were left with the option of investing millions of pounds or closing them , and perhaps looking at the building of a new reactor . |
| 15 | Shrewsbury stood around there , apparently looking for the offside and in the end it was an awful effort at goal . |
| 16 | There was one vehicle there , a car with two figures sitting in the front seats and apparently looking at the road ahead of them . |
| 17 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 18 | Discreetly looking at the price , and mentally reviewing how much money she had on her , and thinking wryly that perhaps , after all , she should have accepted half the prize money for the leprechaun , she bought it . |
| 19 | She stayed in mostly looking after the house and cooking and seeing to his clothes . |
| 20 | Financially troubled Sequoia Systems Inc says it is no longer looking for a buyer — it did n't get any acceptable offers in the first place — and is talking to minority investor Hewlett-Packard Co about new funding to get development its PA-RISC-based fault tolerant machines back on the tracks . |
| 21 | Financially troubled Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc says it is no longer looking for a buyer — it did n't get any acceptable offers in the first place — and is talking to minority investor Hewlett-Packard Co about new funding to get development its Precision Architecture RISC-based fault-tolerant machines back on the tracks : Hewlett has hitherto seemed doubtful about further involvement . |
| 22 | The unions , including her own Transport and General Workers ' Union , are no longer looking like a pushover for her . |
| 23 | However , at the time that Penrose produced his theorem , I was a research student desperately looking for a problem with which to complete my Ph.D . |
| 24 | erm Darwin says in the origin , and I 'm sorry I ca n't read it to you , but I was desperately looking for the quotation in the origin before I can and I could n't find it but I assure you it 's there erm in which he remarks that in all probability the periods of time during which species are not changing is probably very large compared with those periods when change is taking place . |
| 25 | The easiest uses to come to grips with are exclamations such as ( 1 ) above , because they give a very clear impression of somehow looking at the infinitive event from a position before : they express a desire or longing to realize the infinitive event , so that ( 1 ) might be paraphrased " I would love to be in England … |
| 26 | She looked familiar , and I was soon looking into the green and expressive eyes of Sally Drayton , who had been a fellow student at Sussex University . |
| 27 | It was given to delay the police operation to find the bomb and officers were half a mile away looking for the bomb at the Stock Exchange . ’ |
| 28 | We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it . |
| 29 | Without thinking , I said , ‘ No thanks , I 'm just looking for a man . ’ |
| 30 | You 're just looking for a date of today . |