Example sentences of "look at a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 MARTIN HARRISON looks at a way of protecting savings income
2 GEOFFREY BERNSTEIN looks at a way to hedge your bets to protect income
3 This month David Savage discusses the importance of mistakes within the workshop , and looks at a finish he would otherwise not now use if it had n't been for a disaster
4 Here , Linda Parker looks at a range of beauty products that you can use at home to pamper yourself from head to toe
5 On page 10 IAN LUCAS looks at a catfish set-up .
6 A camera always looks at a scene from a particular point of view .
7 JOHN ROBBIE looks at a scandal that is threatening the Boks ’ rehabilitation .
8 If one suspends judgement and looks at a cross-section of these novels , one comes away quite impressed .
9 If one looks at a map of the line , bridge No 352 carried the country road from Rothley plain to Swithland village , beneath the line at Swithland sidings .
10 ‘ States of Grace ’ looks at a society poised on the brink of destruction .
11 Brian Jordan looks at a selection of English wines , and some of the opportunities they provide
12 A designer looks at a table in a mariner different from a housewife or a furniture manufacturer .
13 Outdoors : When a couple of cans of epoxy are not enough Brian Moynahan looks at a contest to find a dinghy that will train and tax the young
14 The second looks at a number of countries ( ranging from the USA to Austria ) ; in each country , the project discusses the relation between the institutional structure and economic policy-making and outcomes at macro and micro levels , with reference to the following external shocks : OPEC 1 and 2 , world recession and rapid technological change .
15 For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope .
16 For instance , they do n't understand , as she quotes in her book , what somebody is doing when they 're reading a newspaper , or what it means when the postman looks at a envelope .
17 It looks at a lesson as a sequence of natural units of teaching and learning .
18 ‘ WESTERN EUROPE ’ takes many forms ; but whether one looks at a group of about 10 nations , or a more complete group of 20 or so , the crucial difference from both the USA and Japan is the presence of a jumble of nation-states of different sizes and distinctive history .
19 He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate .
20 Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’
21 At the same time , many critics show notable preference for stories with a moral conclusion over those which seem to offer simple entertainment ; and any critic who looks at a book from the angle of the potential reader rather than of the book itself is in danger of being tempted by false hierarchies .
22 This brief in our series on the modern classics of economics looks at a paper that is still as controversial as when it first appeared — and suddenly much more relevant to the debate on economic policy .
23 One looks at a star , one sees radiation from an object which may have a surface temperature of many thousands of degrees — in fact , internal temperatures of millions of degrees , but with a radio telescope one 's looking at very , very cold regions and these were totally inaccessible before the advent of radio astronomy , or of this type anyway , and for the first time one was able to see material spread between the stars rather thinly , but in fact in a very cold state .
24 It was thought that Green took his large prepared copper plates out into the landscape and worked on them in front of the actual view , but when one looks at a print of a recognisable location the image is not reversed as would have been the case if a direct drawing onto the plate had been made from nature .
25 It 's mildly encouraging now , though , when Tod looks at a woman in the street .
26 He began talking about the state of the world , saying that he had n't even looked at a newspaper all day , when one was enjoying oneself one too easily forgot everything that was not on the personal level : and yet how desperately the economic situation was deteriorating everywhere week by week , it could not end well , it might lead to anything .
27 Having looked at a number of hypothetical fossil records varying in degree of completeness , they state that ‘ Sometimes fossils can be used in phytogenetic reconstruction without reference to stratigraphy : sometimes they can be used in combination with stratigraphy : sometimes they can not be used at all ; and sometimes phylogeny is in principle not reconstructible . ’
28 A working group made up of clinicians , consultants , GPs and other health professionals has looked at a number of options and has recommended that services be consolidated , and accommodation improvements made , at the Chest Hospital .
29 Have you ever looked at a coke fire ? the coke fire has been banked up with only a limited supply of air .
30 It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows .
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