Example sentences of "by look [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph . |
| 2 | The point is best made by looking at a simple inanimate , but man-made , system , which in this respect resembles a living and not a physical one . |
| 3 | The same can be done in miniature by looking at a sheltered housing group or an institutional home . |
| 4 | The CAB welfare worker can not predict exact dates but by looking at a client 's circumstances he or she can give some indication . |
| 5 | This section will look at how this teacher involvement can be achieved , both in general terms and by looking at a specific example in detail . |
| 6 | Let's begin by looking at a well-known poem — William Blake 's ‘ London ’ . |
| 7 | Users of injecting drugs can protect themselves by looking at a range of options for drug use other than injecting . |
| 8 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |
| 9 | As the Director explains in the preface , the exhibition was selected by looking at a number of separate modes of work , subject areas and photographic media . |
| 10 | Both are bound up with the awareness and sensitivity aroused by looking at a flower or a tree ; an insect or a bird ; the environment in which they live . |
| 11 | For example , by looking at a pot , it may be suspected that it has not been thrown on a wheel but has been made from coils of clay , joined together and smoothed by hand to form the wall of the pot . |
| 12 | The following chapters will attempt to outline some of the main features of discourse organization by looking at a number of factors which constrain or aid the way we produce and understand text . |
| 13 | This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't . |
| 14 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 15 | The second thing I found quickly by looking at a newspaper in a coffee-shop : the day 's date . |
| 16 | However , frequently , the kind of questions we want to ask of the data are deeper than would be answered simply by looking at a cross-tabulation . |
| 17 | It addresses this issue by looking at a large body of empirical evidence , specifically at examples of the relations between adjectives and other words in their phrases or sentences ( these other words by no means always being nouns or noun phrases ) . |
| 18 | These types of questions can not be answered easily by looking at a conventional map . |
| 19 | We read the message of our watch by looking at a constantly changing display . |
| 20 | We will illustrate fourth normal form by looking at a relation which is in first normal form and which contains information about modules , lecturers and text books . |
| 21 | Now , so we can actually distinguish between the two policies , which are very similar in lots of ways , we 're going to start again by looking at a video . |
| 22 | The first of these properties is readily appreciated by looking at an atlas . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | English Hops began their development of hop oils by looking at the ‘ dry hopping ’ end of the brewing process , when a handful of whole or pellet hops are added to casks of beer . |
| 25 | The very considerable size of this achievement can be appreciated by looking at the hydrostatic pressure undersea cables may have to endure — up to 4t/in2 , at a depth of three miles . |
| 26 | Some of these claims can be considered , and either allowed or disallowed , only by looking at the work as a whole ; others can be at least understood after reading only a few lines : |
| 27 | Its significance can be gauged in part by looking at the range of objections to the theatre as a place which subverted metaphysical fixity . |
| 28 | These histories , it was believed , could be constructed by looking at the available information on primitive peoples , past and present , whether from archaeological remains , from classical accounts of early institutions , such as those given by Tacitus concerning the German tribes of Roman times , or early Greece and Rome themselves , or , most importantly , from the reports of travellers , explorers , colonists and missionaries , describing contemporary primitives . |
| 29 | By looking at the kinship terms of a society one could therefore know by this means what had been the previous kinship system , practised in the past by the people concerned . |
| 30 | For those who are weekly paid , normal earnings are estimated by looking at the last five weeks pay , or the last two months for the monthly paid . |