Example sentences of "if [pers pn] look [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle .
2 Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine .
3 If you look through a family history and hit upon an advantageous marriage , the chances are that you will find a new house or a completely restored one at around the same date .
4 You should , you should ge , if you look on a map you can , you can judge where
5 If you look at a dissection of the human arm you can see that the string-like tendons which attach to the fingers are joined further back in the arm , to the muscles .
6 If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving .
7 If you look at a bar code it will normally be accompanied by a long number ( usually eight or thirteen digits long ) .
8 But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ !
9 Jones said : ‘ If you look at a war , there was always the lad who carried the flag , or the emblem of a country .
10 The Club Eighteen Thirty idea is much along similar lines , and if you look at a Club Eighteen Thirty brochure , the sort of activities people do together , bringing people together .
11 If you look at a baby they 're totally out of proportion and they have huge heads do n't they ?
12 15 If you look at a tree and turn through 300° as shown , how much more do you have to turn to face the tree again ?
13 If you look at a pie chart of how public money is spent in this country , it 's difficult to find the slice that is the arts .
14 If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies .
15 If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices
16 Because if you look at a problem , and you read through , have someone to work it out you say yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah , and that 's yeah obvious .
17 Erm if you look at a river that 's working run running quickly down from the mountains
18 But if you , if you look at a B two it makes sense , I mean I 've looked at B two 's and I have n't really understood what the one 's two 's and three's are for but now it makes sense to me so people who are B two makes more sense to them to know what
19 This does n't come automatically to a dyslexic person very often , and we also look at letters from left to right , but if you look at a u and then turn it upside down in your mind , you have an n , or h and y can be reversed to turn into each other , if you like , in the same way .
20 The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon .
21 If you look at a department like the Director and Engineers department , every letter in fact has underneath it the City Engineer , even if its signed by somebody else .
22 If you look like a gringo ( a foreigner , usually blond ) then it 'll be a lot more expensive , because you have more money , ’ she explains simply .
23 Amongst the great majority , the faith of earlier centuries persisted , at least outwardly ; indeed , if we look for a movement of thought and feeling that by the end of the century had penetrated into every class of society except the highest , we shall find it in the revival of ‘ vital religion ’ , or ‘ enthusiasm ’ , as it was also called .
24 On the other hand , if we look at a later decision-making episode in the same project when the pupils are temporarily in role as Indians who have to decide whether or not to receive a white stranger into their midst ( p. 53 ) , this is more likely to have been played seriously as a real game for by then the children , after several lessons on the same project , were steeped in the material sufficiently deeply to respect the rich complexity of the problem .
25 If we look at a random list of typical game structures we shall find that they reflect some of life 's common interactions and are obviously just as important in drama .
26 If we look at a typical Midland deserted village site with the aid of air photographs and maps , we can see that it is made up of certain features which occur again and again on such sites , the most distinctive being the sunken holloways marking the courses of old roads and paths .
27 In fact , if we look at a conversation like Conversation B or Conversation D , where all the participants are British-born and in their late teens or twenties , it is most often the case that a Creole utterance does not receive a Creole response .
28 If we look at a relationship or any type of communication as a situation where somebody 's going to win and somebody 's going to lose there 's not gon na be much chance of two people working together on that so what happens is somebody 's got to lose .
29 If we look at a relationship or any type of commu mean taking a bit of a different look at things thinking well what is it that this person wants from me and what is it that I want from this person ?
30 So if we look at a a typical family .
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