Example sentences of "[adv] looked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a few managers , probably because of the pressure of work , had only looked at the business plan the night before . ’ |
| 2 | Er no I think it wa I think it was our , our mistake er , there was there were sixteen of us there and seven of us had sort of clubbed together looked at the menu and it 's it 's fifteen ninety five , to , the rich main course banquet |
| 3 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |
| 4 | I do n't know , I 've never been in it , I 've just looked through the window and then they 've got junk , I mean that , that er |
| 5 | The use of sacred measure and proportion has been developed by many researchers to postulate a geometrical pattern across the land , extending Watkins ' ley theory into wider concepts of ‘ landscape geometry ’ , and we have already looked at the work of Tyler , Lawton and Koop in exploring wider patterns . |
| 6 | We have already looked at the movement of settlements , changes in plan and form etc. in the landscape , but nevertheless for most of today 's settlements the criteria which applied when the settlement originated are no longer relevant . |
| 7 | Local authority housing provides an example of the former and we have already looked at the role of charges in the NHS . |
| 8 | The parish has already looked into the possibility of extending the existing church , but we 've been advised by Delyn that such an application would be rejected because of lack of parking facilities . |
| 9 | Executives at the Ford of Britain headquarters at Brentwood in Essex have undoubtedly already looked into the future and examined what would happen if car production were to end at Dagenham . |
| 10 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 11 | She 'd fought the sensation as long as she could and then she 'd done something she 'd never done before , she 'd deliberately looked into the sea of faces , looked unerringly to the rear of the crowded room … |
| 12 | If you have ever looked at the ingredients list on your bag of Koi pellets , you may have been puzzled by the high ash content . |
| 13 | ‘ Have you ever looked at the design of the Wheel — before it 's been dressed up ? ’ |
| 14 | Well , have you ever looked at the yarn mast and tension spring ? |
| 15 | I have always looked at the shortlist very much in terms of the dealer presence . |
| 16 | ‘ I have always looked at the numbers to find out what we are actually doing — to measure what is happening . |
| 17 | Like Hyndman , and the Webbs , Blatchford had always looked to the state as the main agency of social change . |
| 18 | For soccer skills , we 've always looked to the Brazilians ; in cricket , the West Indies have been the power . |
| 19 | Unbelievable , I mean I 've always looked upon the horse as a nice horse not as the winner of an Arkle . |
| 20 | He 's always looked after the Ryans . |
| 21 | I 've also looked at the approach in and National Coal Board . |
| 22 | We have also looked at the effect of volume on er mortality and major morbidity by comparing sites where fewer than one hundred cases were performed during the audit period , sites where more than one hundred cases were performed and we have also examined the effects upon mor mortality of both admission types and histology . |
| 23 | We 've also looked at the needs of our local community , our local trade union movement and one of the things that we 're extremely concerned about is health and safety . |
| 24 | We are young and youth is said to be fickle , mutable , and we have both looked at the possibility of ourselves not being exceptions to that supposed rule . |
| 25 | In planning this network of commercial stations the companies involved had unashamedly looked across the Atlantic in search of inspiration and blueprints . |
| 26 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 27 | PERVERSE as it sounds , western writers and intellectuals have often looked on the persecution of their East European counterparts with something like longing . |
| 28 | Instead of seeing Hollywood as a powerful rival to be confronted and challenged , British producers have too often looked upon the US film industry as a much-wooed lady who will one day fall into their arms . |
| 29 | He admitted that this was the first time he had really looked at the stoma and that he found the appearance and the smell rather offensive . |
| 30 | We have now looked at the figures again and can agree to 10,000 copies of a black and white version of the book selling to you at HK$8 per copy . |