Example sentences of "be to look [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the best way to use dowsing in Earth Mysteries is to look for something definite — a lost markstone , for example , or an alignment . |
| 2 | One of the ways of understanding long-gone societies is to look at their cultural artifacts . |
| 3 | The second is to look at what visual systems do , build something that will do the same job , and then determine whether it works in the same way as a real visual system . |
| 4 | The aim here is to look at its political and social repercussions and to set it in the wider context of central-local administrative relations . |
| 5 | A more reliable method of sexing an individual is to look at its inner three fingers . |
| 6 | The best way to find someone is to look in your local directories , such as the Yellow pages but do remember to check their qualifications . |
| 7 | His job is to look after us both as regards our work at the Institute as well as on recreational trips , and he does his best , although his English is perhaps not as good as it could be ( at least he sometimes does n't seem to understand what we say ) . |
| 8 | Julian and I have decided that our business is to look after our own people here in the country . ’ |
| 9 | This accounts for some of the hopefulness with which France was to look to her African possessions for military manpower in the twentieth century . |