Example sentences of "look [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He looks through the little hammock in front of him .
2 Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ?
3 Indeed , Norris looks for a possible rapprochement between deconstruction and the Anglo-American philosophical tradition exemplified by Searle , though he finds that Derrida has more possible affinities with Searle 's master , Austin .
4 TIM SWALES : Looks for a good season
5 His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area .
6 In such a culture , knowledge is superseded by wisdom , which looks for a total view of life , seeking to come to terms with its essential suffering and aspiring [ in Goethe 's words ] to " live resolutely in wholeness and fullness " .
7 When a child looks for a particular size box or a piece of material of a certain colour or texture , he is taking early steps towards sorting .
8 Jemima Puddle-Duck looks for a quiet spot .
9 The second wave occurs at puberty when the young person looks for a sexual partner , and if there has been minimum conflict during the phallic phase this is of the opposite sex .
10 In addressing them he utters no words of condemnation as he does in the case of the scribes and Pharisees , yet he nevertheless looks for an unconditional and wholehearted response from them .
11 For example , take Tokai 's notorious early '80s Fender copies : at long last , affordable , pro-quality guitars with classic looks for the impoverished working musician .
12 If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader :
13 She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life .
14 It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them .
15 From there it looks for the infra-red ‘ signature ’ of a rocket 's exhaust .
16 Keener looks for the right sound rather than dictating where microphones should be .
17 And that 's where engineering you know , knowledge , comes er to bear because an engineer looks for that , he looks for the easy , simplest you know er method of production er which gives him an effective er machining operation throughout the whole job .
18 The researchers have looked for a specific decay of the proton , namely into a positron and a neutral pi-meson ( n ) .
19 When , in the manner of migratory buffalo , they moved elsewhere , its owner , an Indian businessman named Ram , who had spent £2m refurbishing the club , looked for a quick sale .
20 It is indeed remarkable — and perhaps a comment on the tunnel vision of many in academic life — that no previous scholars have looked for the Belgian detective 's literary antecedents in the most obvious of sources , the Medieval Mystery Play .
21 I have also looked for the planetary nebula NGC 7662 , which is in the field with the triangle made up of Lambda ( 3.8 ) , Kappa ( 4.1 ) and Iota ( 4.3 ) .
22 Just as PageMaker provides almost infinite control over each element of each page so Ventura looks after the complete document .
23 With birds and mammals it is nearly always the female that looks after the young , without the help of the male , but many fish reverse this procedure , with all parental duties being carried out by the males , as in the case of nest-building sticklebacks and pouch-carrying seahorses .
24 Even the few examples we have seen illustrate how species with biparental care tend to be monogamous , species in which only the female looks after the young tend to be polygynous , and species in which only the males care for the young tend to be polyandrous .
25 The borough council already looks after the eastern end of the ruined priory which was the first Augustinian monastery .
26 Barclays says it looks after the financial affairs of some 150 ‘ high technology ’ companies in Cambridge : three years ago the figure was 15 .
27 With one assistant , she looks after the legal work for the whole of the company , undertakes the company secretarial work and attends Board meetings .
28 The film also impressed James Lewis , 23 , from Leatherhead , Surrey , who looks after the disabled .
29 A small full-time staff based in St Albans looks after the day-to-day administration and finances of the Campaign and produced a monthly newspaper , What 's Brewing , and the annual Good Beer Guide .
30 This looks after the day-to-day running of the Campaign , leaving the executive to consider major policy initiatives .
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