Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although my toys are an important collection , I am wary of them being looked on as investments or high-price commodities like works of art . |
| 2 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 3 | The arts professional development teachers of the one LEA in the sample which had a cross-curriculum team looked enviously at colleagues in other curriculum areas who had national associations where they could meet to exchange curriculum and strategic information . |
| 4 | Jackie agreed , so I asked him why constructors like Mayer and Ecclestone so looked down on drivers . |
| 5 | This is known as a tree diagram ( although it looks more like roots than branches ) . |
| 6 | Memory clearly plays some role at all levels of the driving task , however , there is relatively little research which looks directly at drivers ’ memories for driving situations . |
| 7 | Studies of this type usually focus on general elections alone , but this one looks also at by-elections and at the change between them . |
| 8 | On his earlier journey across the mountains Giles had looked out for landmarks — a waterfall , an old tree , a small lake . |
| 9 | deane still looks out of sorts though , but Wallace is back to his old ways and was continually running at the defenders . |
| 10 | Alec Stewart still looks out of sorts as wicket-keeper batsman and his position will again have to be reconsidered . |
| 11 | Erm , so he always looks out for police cars now , but he still wo n't wear his belt . |
| 12 | She sticks the cigarette in her mouth and looks around for matches . |
| 13 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 14 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ We have looked everywhere for players , but it will be easier in the Premier League . |
| 16 | References to ‘ fraternal solidarity ’ abound , but one looks hard for references to ‘ binding internationalist obligations ’ or the ‘ permanent factors ’ in relations which force Warsaw Pact leaders to account to the Soviet Politburo . |
| 17 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 18 | Students continued to experience severe difficulties in finding practical training opportunities in the UK and increasingly looked abroad for openings . |
| 19 | He 'd admitted early on that he 'd never looked closely at goats before . |
| 20 | Hester Eisenstein , for example , looks forward to women transforming the world in the image of what she calls ‘ the woman-centered values at the core of feminism ’ . |
| 21 | The term formative assessment refers to assessment which looks forward to pupils ' future learning , as opposed to summative assessment which looks back at what pupils have already achieved . |
| 22 | This magazine , the readers of the Guardian will have been appalled to discover , is plagued by ‘ young men from Coopers & Lybrand in striped shirts looking suspiciously at cartoons for excess intelligence . ’ |
| 23 | Some sea urchins are almost spherical , with large strong plates looking rather like shields with a boss in the centre . |
| 24 | Small size , unbranched and strong ribs , giving the shell a ramshorn appearance , are important characters This form has a number of related species , but the situation is complicated by the fact that some large ammonites have inner whorls looking rather like Promicroceras This specimen is from the Lias of Somerset , England . |
| 25 | Then I 'd just go round and round looking down on things — you know , like from a plane . |
| 26 | They are usually simple cap-shaped shells looking somewhat like limpets , but on their internal surfaces they carry a series of paired muscle impressions . |
| 27 | You are looking especially for cracks in walls , bulging or leaning walls and chimney breasts ; damp , and rotting or infested wood ; signs of movement , or subsidence ; bulging or sagging floors and ceilings ; broken , soft or hollow plaster ; blocked or inadequate drains , ; adequate and safe water , gas and electrical services . |
| 28 | They are looking only at aggregates and pig iron and other goods which can be trundled around the railways for many weeks and do not need to reach their destination at any particular time . |
| 29 | THE BRITISH government is looking eagerly for signs of economic recovery but is may not have noticed that the quickest way of discerning increased industrial activity is not to look at it , but to listen . |
| 30 | This is one of those serious affairs , looking not at affairs but at ambitions and job satisfaction . |