Example sentences of "look up a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It , as I said earlier , really just looks up a table of data values , numerical values , and comes up with an answer and you ca n't question it , you ca n't ask it why did you get that particular answer . |
| 2 | The short-term store has a limit of about twenty seconds unless there is opportunity for rehearsal , e.g. this is the maximum time available between looking up a telephone number and then dialling it unless the operator repeats it to himself . |
| 3 | To that should be added a familiarity with the commonest ways of symbolising sounds ; a dictionary user faced with looking up a word whose spelling he does n't know , ought to be able to choose where to start looking for it , with a fair degree of success . |
| 4 | Looking up a reference in a library on some topic , a firm doing market research for a new product , an opinion poll prior to an election , physicists building particle colliders to find an elusive sub-atomic particle , the search for a cure for AIDs , and many , many more would all qualify as research in this sense . |
| 5 | Things are looking up a bit at the moment . |
| 6 | This logical identifier has to uniquely identify the record , and its actual address can also be obtained by looking up a table containing the addresses of all the identifiers . |
| 7 | This additional information can be very useful indeed in saving the researcher from looking up an article which sounds as if it would be useful from the title , but which , in fact , is not relevant to one 's particular interest . |
| 8 | I tested this in three ways : by looking up an article on a subject which I feel I know reasonably well ; by looking up an article on a topic with which I am familiar ; and by looking for information on an area which I have heard about but of which I am largely ignorant . |
| 9 | I tested this in three ways : by looking up an article on a subject which I feel I know reasonably well ; by looking up an article on a topic with which I am familiar ; and by looking for information on an area which I have heard about but of which I am largely ignorant . |
| 10 | Another lady would come outside and look up a tree and say , sadly , ‘ All them squirrels goin' to waste . ’ |
| 11 | It 's very surprising just how few people can actually look up a reference , or seek out information on a given topic ! |
| 12 | And he 'd look up a book . |
| 13 | To this it might be retorted that no-one linguistically advanced enough to look up a word in a dictionary could possibly require a definition of the word home . |
| 14 | If you need to look up a command and are not sure under which topic to search , pressing F10 will bring up a Search facility into which a word that is relevant to that particular command may be inserted . |
| 15 | When learners look up a word or phrase they need to know what it means , but they also need to know how to use it . |
| 16 | After that , things looked up a bit . |
| 17 | Back at the Olympik , I looked up a passage in Pascal which had been in my mind earlier in the evening : |
| 18 | He looked up a number . |