Example sentences of "look [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remarkable novels of S. E. Hinton — for instance , The Outsiders and That Was Then , This Is Now — describe the operation of honour as it exists within American city gangs with a passionate conviction one looks for in vain in many similar contemporary adventure fictions . |
| 2 | It can be immensely useful — and that is what is looked for with lateral thinking — or it can be false . |
| 3 | Section 2(3) provides that in considering the common duty of care , the circumstances include the degree of care and want of care which would ordinarily be looked for in such a visitor . |
| 4 | And does n't this give us — faintly indeed , but unmistakably — just what we 've looked for in vain in all the other Sicilian allusions : that 's to say , evidence that when Pound was in Sicily he did n't go around with his eyes closed , his ears and nostrils stopped ? |
| 5 | And cultural determinism is the idea that they way people think and act , is largely determined by their culture , their upbringing , their socialization , their home environment , peer group pressure , this kind of thing , and is not to be looked for in natural causes , in their genes , for example , or in individual psychological experience , as was the prime focus of Freud in psychoanalysis . |
| 6 | For example , in an article aimed at secondary headteachers , Ross ( 1987 ) identifies huge shortfalls between the aims described in the National Criteria for the GCSE art and design and music examinations , and what the assessment objectives prescribe should be looked for in these subjects : |
| 7 | Certainly they make demands on social and medical services , and it is possible that severely mentally handicapped people will have to be looked after for all their lives . |
| 8 | Their defence solicitor said Merlin had been well looked after for five years . |
| 9 | She was obviously not being looked after at all . |
| 10 | This ensures that students and staff are well looked after at all times , and staff are well looked after at all times , and they can continue to work and live in an attractive and secure environment . |
| 11 | This ensures that students and staff are well looked after at all times , and staff are well looked after at all times , and they can continue to work and live in an attractive and secure environment . |
| 12 | It 's good to see their interests being looked after at long last . |
| 13 | However the development , mainly in the voluntary sector , of segregated dementia day centres offers the hope that the needs of the large intermediate group of sufferers and their carers can be looked after in small , local , enthusiastic units , taking pressure away from the " ordinary day centres and day hospitals and allowing them a better mix a Policy Part IV of the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act sets out the provisions for local authority residential care . |
| 14 | Their aging parents will be looked after in private homes . |
| 15 | I could not possibly have been better looked after in any private hospital and my thanks and appreciation go to all those who made my recovery possible . |
| 16 | If only one in 10 of those people cared for at home had instead to be looked after in residential institutions the additional public cost would exceed £1 billion a year . |
| 17 | ‘ Young mums and mums-to-be can come along and their children can play and be looked after in safe surroundings while they enjoy a chat and a cup of tea . ’ |
| 18 | He was happy and well looked after in this home . |
| 19 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 20 | What would I have done , I would have asked her to er get out of the bed , walk towards me and come out into the hall way where she could have been looked after by one of the other officers , and al allow me to get on with my main task in hand . |
| 21 | That is now over and she is being looked after by foster parents . |
| 22 | But he gave an account of having grown up being looked after by black servants because both his parents worked , and he claimed that , after they had separated , a black housekeeper named Evelyn became almost a mother-figure to him . |
| 23 | He was lodged , at some expense , in a progressive asylum where he would be looked after by skilled doctors , but his condition did not improve . |
| 24 | The Santuario was looked after by Dominican monks , and they were a pretty shrewd lot when it came to business . |
| 25 | Let him get used to being looked after by other people , but make sure they understand how he should sit and move . |
| 26 | 50% thought that they should be looked after by social services rather than hospitals , with 34% opting for hospitals . |
| 27 | Or , thirdly , arrangements whereby the needy are increasingly looked after by voluntary and charitable activities . |
| 28 | The 1989 Children Act imposes new , more stringent regulations for planning and reviewing the experiences of children looked after by local authorities . |
| 29 | If you can not manage on your own or with family and friends , or if you prefer not to involve them , you can ask for your child to be looked after by local authority foster parents for a short or longer period . |
| 30 | Arrangements for returning the child should be included in the written agreement which must be made in respect of all children who are looked after by local authorities ( see Chapter 16 , 4 ) . |