Example sentences of "[v-ing] to look at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent .
2 It is worth pausing to look at the degree of crowd disorder associated with these sports and the possible reasons for such profiles .
3 Satisfied , she slipped on her jacket and picked up her handbag , pausing to look at the diary once more and its mysterious entry :
4 She was pretending to look at the people who were passing in the street , but Burun was not deceived .
5 ‘ I 'm goin' to look at the story first and then tells it in me own way , like what I done with Noah .
6 He walked slowly , not daring to look at the drop on his right and becoming ever more aware of the cold , biting wind and eerie sense of loneliness , as if he hung half way between heaven and earth .
7 Returning to the Rossiya and not daring to look at the men and women who stood and swayed beside him .
8 IN THE FINAL part of my series , I am going to look at the subject of wind .
9 This is the first of a series of programmes in which we 're going to look at the computer and its impact on our lives .
10 ‘ She made it clear no decision had been taken and she was going to look at the Tomlinson Report with a totally objective view , ’ he said .
11 I believe that er we did n't er consider going to look at the development because it was quite clearly in the minds of a large percentage of us that it was contrary to the town plan and so we did not think it was necessary to do that .
12 He said , ‘ When are we going to look at the badger ? ’
13 Tonight , we 're going to look at the problems of the people .
14 In this programme we are going to look at the way in which British music has developed in recent years and its relationship to that produced by Continental Europe .
15 ‘ There 's no one of any consequence in London at the moment , ’ she told him , ‘ but you wo n't be able to move for the millions of nobodies going to look at the Tower . ’
16 I welcome the initiative that have already been started within the County and I shall be going to look at the site which is being offered to us , er but I do feel that we should be progressing these matters as soon as possible .
17 Well are you going to look at the telly
18 In this chapter , then , we are going to look at the intonation of one-syllable utterances .
19 Oh that 's what I was going to look at the brushes
20 Corbett caught phrases , ‘ See from Heaven the Judge descendeth ’ and , turning to look at the coffin , vowed that the young man awaiting burial would not have to wait until Judgement Day for justice .
21 Marvin gaped , turning to look at the newcomer .
22 Soldiers were beginning to look at the clock and fumble with equipment , apparently preparing for a guard change .
23 SCOTVEC is also starting to look at the possibility of developing general SVQs at level IV in the longer term , building on HNCs and HNDs .
24 Often patients come with considerable back or neck pain , but unless they can use the experience of crying to look at the repression of feeling in their lives , the effects of the massage is short-lived as the tensions quickly build up again .
25 I went to London two weeks running to look at the Tower ! ’
26 Although BT said they were continuing to look at the results of the experiment , initial findings included the fact that not only was BT satisfied with productivity achieved but the staff themselves were only too sorry to see it end .
27 And while many people can look towards the advantages of a spinal unit at , Medical Centre , people are failing to look at the disadvantages that that will cause for the provision of orthopaedic services in , in , in , in .
28 One of the delights of being on holiday is not having to look at the clock .
29 Two uniforms were trying to put an extendable ladder up to the skylight — God knows where it had come from — over the bath without actually having to look at the body .
30 Teachers are coming to look at the shelves and tying it up with what they do in class .
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