Example sentences of "look [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City came under some pressure from Tring , but the home side never looked down to a sub front . |
| 2 | It is an establishment which distrusts individualism , which prefers to proceed through collaboration , which looks still to the state to redress the workings of the market , to resist centripetal force which the City of London exerts . |
| 3 | It turns from Proust 's text and looks outward to the language system in general ; and at the same time it represents de Man 's voice speaking from outside and intruding into Proust 's text . |
| 4 | Doug chatters with cold like a little monkey , and Bill looks darkly to the horizon . |
| 5 | In such a case , as Lord Haldane said in North Western Salt Co Ltd v Electrolytic Alkali Co Ltd [ 1914 ] AC 461 , the law " still looks carefully to the interests of the public , but it regards the parties as the best judges of what is reasonable as between themselves " . |
| 6 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 7 | Fortunately , Leinster 's front five , which includes the experienced tight-head prop Des Fitzgerald , looks up to the task of scrummaging against the All Blacks . |
| 8 | The river is broad here , about two hundred yards , and from its banks one looks up to the baroque turrets of the Benedictine monastery of Stift Göttweig , perched high on its wooded hill . |
| 9 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 10 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 11 | Again , one looks back to the nineteenthcentury origins of English literary studies , when the first pioneers and missionaries , men such as Morley and Furnivall , travelled all over the country to talk about English literature in adult education classes and working men 's clubs . |
| 12 | This use of nursery rhyme looks back to The Waste Land with its ‘ London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down ’ and anticipates another explicit nursery rhyme which , in slightly distorted form , opens section V of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 13 | This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ . |
| 14 | Ash-Wednesday , for all its renunciation , does at times look towards the childhood of the race , but more strongly it looks back to the poet 's own childhood with which this primitivism is associated , as Eliot looks back , in language mixing ‘ Gerontion ’ , Virgil , and a new interest in his own childhood . |
| 15 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 16 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 17 | Located in the centre of Birmingham , it looks back to the city 's rich heritage with its colourful canalside setting ; and forward to a dynamic future through its direct link with the International Convention Centre and renowned Symphony Hall . |
| 18 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |
| 19 | The third film , ‘ Waiting with Xavier — Glimpses of the Church in South China ’ , looks back to the arrival of Christianity in China 400 years ago , through St Francis Xavier , and explores the current life of the Catholic Church in Guangdong Province , South China . |
| 20 | The third film , ‘ Waiting with Xavier — Glimpses of the Church in South China ’ , looks back to the arrival of Christianity in China 400 years ago , through St Francis Xavier , and explores the current life of the Catholic Church in Guangdong Province , South China . |
| 21 | Instead John looks back to the creation of the world … and then skips over the millenia to the ministry of John the Baptist and to Jesus , as an adult . |
| 22 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 23 | George looks back to the past and Nick looks forward to the future . |
| 24 | COLM MURPHY looks back to the future as Clandeboye 's golfers prepare for an All-Ireland double assault in the national Cup and Shield finals at Woodbrook next weekend . |
| 25 | Looked upwards to the sky : and there , up there , glimpsed now and then between the moving boughs , was the constellation of the great bear … and the pole star . |
| 26 | Increasingly , as penetration of the West European markets on any large scale failed to materialise , the German states looked eastwards to the less socially advanced , less well-organised societies along their borders . |
| 27 | It is a large , friendly and comfortable Georgian building with a delightful landscaped garden which looks out to a paddock , and some thick wooded hills beyond . |
| 28 | The dining room has a thirty foot wall of glass which enables guests to view the attractive landscaped garden and which looks out to a small patio for guests to enjoy in the summer . |
| 29 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 30 | To the west , Chioggia looks inward across the lagoon and Sottomarina looks out to the Adriatic sea . |