Example sentences of "of look [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Notice how the first step of looking through the window is less threatening than the second one of opening the door .
2 This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole .
3 She prayed they would not think of looking under the bed .
4 Experts believe it is all part of a wartime spirit of looking on the bright side .
5 He had slipped into a rather alarming habit lately of looking at every girl or woman he encountered to see how big her bust was .
6 There is no one way of looking at a sculpture by Leinberger and similarly there is no one angle or distance from which we see it anything like whole , but there is something like a normal sequence of approach .
7 Comparison of illustrations of the same picture in several publications will demonstrate this truism , while the best test of looking at a reproduction in front of the picture itself can be a disheartening experience .
8 They can bring , through their training and experience , particular and specified ways of looking at a child 's problem .
9 One way of looking at a site is to examine its stratigraphy — the sequence of layers that have been laid down one on top of another to form the site itself .
10 Another way of looking at a site is to concentrate on its plan , and to see how this changes with time .
11 FO … you acquire the … skill , with practice , of looking at a discharge and being able to say visually in many cases , that there 's things like suspended solids — that it is going to be outside consent ; it is clear to you that sample is going to be outside .
12 There are many different ways of looking at a town for the first time .
13 Erm I mean the if you , if you 're looking at erm at er at , at , at the costs on that erm I mean do you , do you think that er er that that 's a reasonable sum to , to actually put aside ea each month to provide that sort of protection or , or perhaps you ought to be thinking of , of looking at a higher figure .
14 That does mean that they have already had a very difficult exercise in terms of looking at an , an efficiency effectiveness distribution of funding and how they manage the service , and that 's very much tied in with the children 's services plan , which Mike referred to earlier on , and which is later on the agenda .
15 But there are other ways of looking at the question .
16 After a while Moran tired of looking at the newspapers and went outside though it was almost night .
17 In this way of looking at the economy , wages seem to be determined by forces as inevitable as mathematics , and if wages were low this was no doubt unfortunate , but there was nothing anybody could do about it , any more than it would be possible to change the laws of gravity .
18 ‘ Nice to see you back , ’ said chairman , Alban Maginness to his former party colleague as Austin Currie went through his 18th or 19th conference , this time though , from the unfamiliar position of looking at the rostrum rather than being on it . ’
19 A tin of rings and a ten shilling note , a woodshed and an oak tree , an innocence , never to be reclaimed , a shock which changed even the ways of looking at the ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow .
20 The second way of looking at the distribution of coin hoards is to plot their geographical positions on a map .
21 But modern westerners ( and those inspired by European culture ) combine this way of looking at the world with advanced technology , enabling them to make huge changes , quickly .
22 He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them .
23 She told him she was too busy to attend to the matter , whilst the guests gave up all pretence of looking at the pictures to stare at the intruder .
24 She thought of looking at the doctor and indicating that he should interfere and stop it ; but she did not .
25 Many scientists saw at once its far-reaching implications and a whole spate of major papers were published in 1967 and 1968 , which quite suddenly added up together to make a completely new way of looking at the Earth 's main working parts : Plate Tectonics .
26 For the most part it consists of a series of simple techniques combined with a new way of looking at the subject .
27 The more opportunities he/she has of looking at the illustrations and reading the captions with you , the more he/she will come to recognise the words .
28 ANOTHER way of looking at the magnetic quantisation of Figure 3 is shown in the energy band diagram ( a ) .
29 Rene/ Descartes , the I7th century French philosopher , gave the world the expression Cogito , ergo sum ( I think therefore I am ) and endowed the French with an invincible confidence in they very own way of looking at the world .
30 The Newson studies do , however , suggest ways of looking at the backgrounds of those children we are setting out to serve .
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