Example sentences of "looking [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Health spokesman Vic Shroot said : ‘ We are now looking for a pilot willing to fly the plane . |
| 2 | When fostering out a child , placement workers will be looking for a home similar to their own . |
| 3 | You should be looking for a machine capable of being upgraded to 16Mb , preferably to 32Mb . |
| 4 | The local name comes from the loud braying call which is always at its loudest at four o'clock in the morning , just when you are looking for a bit more sleep after a tiring day . |
| 5 | Under the glare of the fluorescent light the whole bizarre scene , Berowne 's sprawled body and severed throat , the clotted blood , the tramp propped like a stringless marionette against the wall , looking for a moment unreal , a Grand Guignol tableau too overdone and too contrived to be convincing . |
| 6 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 7 | If it was my sister , I too would come looking for the man responsible . |
| 8 | A fascinating example of the dehistoricization of history is provided by the two novels published to date by the poet Roberto Pazzi , Cercando l'imperatore ( Looking for the Emperor 1985 ) and La principessa e il drago ( The Princess and the Dragon 1986 ) , both set in the last years of Tsarist Russia . |
| 9 | The withdrawal of English Heritage from looking after the Grade II listed buildings in the capital — those which make up much of its historic fabric — is viewed as alarming because it involves dismantling the highly professional architectural conservation division , with its unifying role , which English Heritage inherited in 1986 when the Greater London Council was abolished . |
| 10 | Does your husband accept that perhaps he ought to be looking after the baby alternate weeks , or is that not a solution to the problem ? |
| 11 | So are you saying then effectively that looking towards the post two thousand and six scenario , and bearing in mind that that review will not be let , will , is likely to take place at the most within the next five years ? |
| 12 | It looks , it 's come back looking like a brand new mower ! |
| 13 | They 're an odd looking bunch : there 's Tav , without moustache , looking like the pimp next door , then there 's George Reinecke failing dismally to look cool and Red West on bass showing him how it should be done . |
| 14 | They 're an odd looking bunch : there 's Tav , without moustache , looking like the pimp next door , then there 's George Reinecke failing dismally to look cool and Red West on bass showing him how it should be done . |
| 15 | I decided against looking into the tumbledown wooden hut that had once housed the coal hopper controls . |
| 16 | And they are looking into an incident last month when Daum angrily kicked in an advertising board . |
| 17 | So if you 're looking in the grade four book put down page four , exercise one . |
| 18 | For what it 's worth , I was a schoolboy visiting the [ Russian ] cruiser that afternoon after school , and was on the main deck looking over the side next to the quay , when I saw a diver ( with full deep-diving headgear ) being pulled beneath the surface by two frogmen . |
| 19 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 20 | Well , er we 're very lucky that er Oxford 's pretty well covered , yes , we 've , or could do with some more volunteers of course , but we 've got about one hundred and twenty people who 'll be going out in the city , and I was looking at a map this morning and it 's very well covered indeed with purple and yellow lines where we 've actually got people on the ground . |
| 21 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 22 | When she came in for the second time her throat was like looking at a plate full of strawberries and cream — red enlarged tonsils with a coating of puss . |
| 23 | This is satisfactory enough , though it is often necessary to perch the tripod on top of a platform or a solid table , as otherwise you will have to be something of a contortionist when looking at an object high in the sky ( incidentally , the same is true of a small refracting telescope ) . |
| 24 | Yeah I was looking at the petrol driven ones . |
| 25 | I was I was looking at the syllabus last night and I was working out how much we 've got to do yet and where we are an and I really do feel confident that no matter where you are in your course work situation , that if w if we planned the thing right and we sort it out between now and the summer , tha that we could well get a good few Grade A's in here and obviously work it well . |
| 26 | As you know it , this is the last I 'm sure everyone 's aware it 's the last item on your agenda when I was looking at the agenda this item was before the fox hunting motion I thought well it 'd be nice to have a debate before the fox hunting motion because we would have er a full house of people who I 'm sure would be very interested to hear the discussion on V A T. As matter of fact I 'm sure they would w w would welcome the opportunity to have a de , a discussion , but it seems they have gone and I got , I got it wrong Chairman when you by taking the the the fox hunting motion it should really have , have held on till this time in the evening . |
| 27 | Looking at the way other people did it and sort of experimenting on my own I came up with a combination that worked . |
| 28 | Looking at the evidence available , there seem to be four main principles which determine who offers personal care . |
| 29 | Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no |
| 30 | He turned the fire off and sat down on the settee , looking at the woman all the while . |