Example sentences of "look at an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fashion : Parisian poet clothed in wit : Charlotte Du Cann looks at an exhibition to mark the centenary of Jean Cocteau 's birth |
| 2 | Each programme looks at an area of the Church 's teaching , through the stories of individual Catholics , while wider issues raised are discussed by Catholic Theologians and commentators . |
| 3 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |
| 4 | I 've never looked at an elephant 's eyelashes before . |
| 5 | ‘ As far as I can see , ’ he continued , giving his grandmother a look of clearly mingled liking and exasperation , ‘ my grandmother has n't looked at an employment application in five years . |
| 6 | Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement . |
| 7 | The first of these properties is readily appreciated by looking at an atlas . |
| 8 | At £49.95 , it 's affordable for the one-off job ( it could easily save you that in architect 's fees alone if you 're looking at an extension ) , and it does n't require a mega-PC to run it . |
| 9 | You 're asked to support the general move , that we have set out from this report , and you 're asked to agree to St Clements and East Ward , and I think we 've heard Mandy and Phil acknowledge that there may well be a case for looking at an area of council housing , which we will leave them to do , and also to approve the set of objectives , which I particularly welcome , on page sixty-two and sixty-three , which will amount to a work programme , which I would have thought we were all very pleased to see . |
| 10 | Looking at an example of one such fraud will indicate this basic procedure . |
| 11 | Looking at an example from recognition test data , an original handwritten word was students , but was recognised as sludents . |
| 12 | Exercise 1 : Try playing the children 's party game where you spend two minutes looking at an assortment of small items on a tray , then cover them with a cloth and see how many of them you can write down . |
| 13 | This is satisfactory enough , though it is often necessary to perch the tripod on top of a platform or a solid table , as otherwise you will have to be something of a contortionist when looking at an object high in the sky ( incidentally , the same is true of a small refracting telescope ) . |
| 14 | Does this mean that we are looking at an item produced by a cabinet-maker who was also able to furnish funerals ? |
| 15 | It is strangely comforting , looking at an alphabet that is totally incomprehensible , a liberation from the strain of trying to understand . |
| 16 | Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper . |
| 17 | And if you look at an insect walking , that 's exactly what it does . |
| 18 | MAKING TRACKS This month we look at an 8-track from Tascam , plus a rack-mountable tuner and the mysterously titled Power Tool … |
| 19 | Right , look at an exam paper . |
| 20 | The experiments are not particularly relevant to anything , they 're just experiments for experiment 's sake , one experiment illustrating a particular bit of theory ; it does n't do anything particularly useful , you just look at an oscilloscope and take some readings and hence you can demonstrate this bit of theory . |
| 21 | If we look at an array of words as a self-referential order , we may abstract certain regularities , such as rules of grammar , sentence construction , statistics on the relative frequencies of various letters , words , etc . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We will look at an information system for a hospital to illustrate this . |
| 24 | Let us look at an example of acute illness that would naturally resolve in time . |
| 25 | Now let's look at an example ( see Figure 2 ) . |
| 26 | Let us look at an example of a German translation of an English text , the first page of Morgan Matroc 's company brochure : Technical Ceramics ( see Appendix 2 for the German text ) . |
| 27 | 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 ? ’ |
| 28 | This was necessary in order to provide the same level of performance as our old manual system where , in order to obtain information on an individual employee , we would simply look at an employee card which was filed in surname order within department ; |
| 29 | The two towers and the bridge itself would be the same , and in a way that that 's what we can look at an analogy to do with er presentation skills . |
| 30 | This study was designed to look at an array of possible influences on diabetic control in a group of diabetic patients in the community in order to identify which factors influenced glycaemic control and to quantify the relative contribution of each . |