Example sentences of "[vb mod] look at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the money was there , I think we should look at a link . |
| 2 | ‘ If the money was there I think we should look at a link . ’ |
| 3 | If you can not have a separate freezer you should look at a refrigerator with maximum freezer space and capacious food storage compartments . |
| 4 | There are literally hundreds of these , and you should look at a catalogue of the Central Statistical Office to see what is available . |
| 5 | You must look at a film of him and do all you can to emulate his behaviour . ’ |
| 6 | She glanced briefly at Twoflower , as one might look at a piece of furniture , then glared down at the man on the bed . |
| 7 | Now let's look at an example ( see Figure 2 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ A cat may look at a King ’ |
| 9 | Your employer may look at a variety of alternative sanctions . |
| 10 | But a cat may look at a queen . |
| 11 | A cat may look at a queen . |
| 12 | Turning , throwing his voice ( Miss Dainty : ‘ Why do you stare so ? ’ ) and the line with extra meaning : ‘ A duke may look at an actress , may he not ? ’ |
| 13 | She could look at a row of colours for hours and never be bored . |
| 14 | So that kind of thing made analysts think that they could go on more than just free associations , they could look at a person 's character , as it were . |
| 15 | The Mitry peasants ( like the proverbial cat ) could look at a king , and they spoke the same legal language of customary rights and fairness as Charles and his faithful men used in their capitularies . |
| 16 | He had thought he could look at a picture of Wyvis Hall , a photograph he had taken himself with a cheap camera Zosie had stolen , with equanimity and even a rueful amusement , but it appeared he could not . |
| 17 | And then I , well if it 's really income he needs , I thought he could look at an equities portfolio for the eighty thousand , say , forty thousand in er groceries and forty thousand in pharmaceutical . |
| 18 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd look at a problem and come up with a totally different answer to the one you 'd expect … |
| 20 | er Apollo Leisure had decided that they would like to have arts and science under the same roof , er the arts has been something that 's considered an acceptable cultural pastime , and people will go out at weekends , take the family and will do something that , they would look at an exhibition , er or they would go to the theatre , whereas in science , there is n't really anything that you can do as a social or cultural pastime . |
| 21 | Here , I shall look at a variety of drawing media , both ancient and modern . |
| 22 | We shall look at a fragment of spoken discourse , not in terms of how we would characterise the participants ' shared information , but in terms of a process in which each participant expresses a personal topic within the general topic framework of the conversation as a whole . |
| 23 | Er , now , erm , Harlequins have complained to Bath , there 've been allegations er , during last weekend 's er Courage League match , which Bath won incidentally , of gouging and biting , er and Bath officials now have agreed that they will look at a video recording and take appropriate action , in quotes , if anything erm , needs to be done . |
| 24 | A resident of the North Shore will look at a wave and say , ‘ Bad weather they 've been having in Alaska ’ , or ‘ I see Siberia is in trouble again ’ . |
| 25 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 26 | He will look at a piece of equipment to try to detect signs which indicate what is wrong . |
| 27 | To gain an impression of the extent of employee theft , we will look at a study of fiddling and pilferage at a medium-sized factory-production bakery in south-east England , undertaken by Jason Ditton ( 1977 ) . |
| 28 | We will look at an information system for a hospital to illustrate this . |
| 29 | ‘ Even I can look at a gauge and make out when it 's on the red ! ’ |
| 30 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |