Example sentences of "are looking [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | From here you are looking into the rear windows of Whitehall . |
2 | When money is tight , passengers are looking for the best deal . |
3 | Customer clinics have shown that executive car buyers are looking for the following factors : durability , style , comfort , performance and interior space . |
4 | ‘ But we continue to study it and are looking for the right vehicle . ’ |
5 | Parish council chairman Jack Holywell said it seems that the thieves are looking for the easy targets which they know will be left unguarded at night . |
6 | After all , we are looking for the same thing . ’ |
7 | If they are looking for the special therapist to ‘ cure ’ them , then , also they will be disappointed . |
8 | Several of our brightest chefs , often trained in French methods , are looking to the Mediterranean for inspiration . |
9 | The fear of Cardiff 's rivals is that , without the same resources , they can only lose in a transfer war , and some are looking to the Welsh Rugby Union for legislative salvation . |
10 | Of course the elves are in a wood at that moment , and they are looking at the early evening stars , but that is not what they mean . |
11 | ‘ We are looking at the all-round development of the child , not just narrow academic achievement , ’ added Ms Robinson . |
12 | Please check you are looking at the correct part of the table for the day you wish to travel . |
13 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
14 | Here we are looking at the same argument using the energy input in absolute terms . |
15 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
16 | Whenever you find an A.sessilis or A. reineckii you are looking at the same plant : A. rosaefolia . |
17 | Prize money in Britain covers only about one quarter of these costs , which is why some owners are looking at the larger prizes available in other countries . |
18 | All those wankers obsessed with the shape of Ms Zeta Jones ' num-nums are looking at the wrong asset . |
19 | ‘ The Comrades Club in Crosby is a better location and I think people can see from some of the names that we are looking towards the top acts . ’ |
20 | A longer holiday period away from each other is also valuable if you are looking after the patient full-time . |
21 | This is a unique feeling as instead of your arms pulling on the boom , you are looking from the other side of the sail and pushing . |
22 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
23 | But perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction . |