Example sentences of "looking at the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started by looking at the chromosome patterns , of course — remember the men who are born with an extra Y chromosome , who show aggressive behavior and antisocial tendencies . |
| 2 | Repression would be looking at the cream cake and saying , I 'm not in the least bit interested , how revolting , disgusting , even though you actually unconsciously want it very much . |
| 3 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 4 | Looking at the yield curve graphically , Fig. 17.2(a) shows the ‘ normal ’ yield curve we would expect to find , with yields rising the longer the bond ( gilt ) has to go to maturity . |
| 5 | And that means looking at the audit schedule out front so that you , you 're not . |
| 6 | Looking at the computer sector alone , the market was down 15% and production down 7% . |
| 7 | Clearly in looking at the travel agent sector we have already been analysing something of the domestic arm of the industry since these agents also arrange domestic holidays or parts of them . |
| 8 | Oh , dear me ! ’ — she was looking at the casserole dish — ‘ stewed mutton and dumplings . |
| 9 | ‘ Nipples do n't twinkle — you must have fallen asleep looking at the fairy lights on the Christmas tree , ’ she scoffed . |
| 10 | Erm y'know it 's one of these things that er that 's often been rather condoned , o particularly if you 're looking at the education system . |
| 11 | Sefa-Dedeh is looking at the hydration properties of legumes with the idea of developing a variety that takes less time . |
| 12 | ‘ But would it perhaps just be worth looking at the petrol gauge ? ’ |
| 13 | By looking at the kinship terms of a society one could therefore know by this means what had been the previous kinship system , practised in the past by the people concerned . |
| 14 | The easiest uses to come to grips with are exclamations such as ( 1 ) above , because they give a very clear impression of somehow looking at the infinitive event from a position before : they express a desire or longing to realize the infinitive event , so that ( 1 ) might be paraphrased " I would love to be in England … |
| 15 | He did n't even ask the next question but went on looking at the Consul General expectantly . |
| 16 | Looking at the fossil animal itself , the first necessity is to reconstruct it as accurately as possible from its fragmentary remains . |
| 17 | He is pictured here with InTec 's Neil Griffiths , looking at the test bed for a newly developed plasma processing unit for sterilising hospital instruments — a pilot one of which is on trial at Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital . |
| 18 | And the police engineers go round with his mate and he 's looking at the engine numbers and the chassis numbers and all those bloody numbers inside the car and he 's looking like and er the interviewer said oh and this woman 's in for a shock ! |
| 19 | Were I just looking at the DOS version , I 'd be pretty happy with that , but it 's with the Windows version that major flaws appear . |
| 20 | The Commission , for example , is looking at the price differentials of the same car models in different member states — a campaign which CA initiated many years ago . |
| 21 | It is , however , worth looking at the parent fish when spawning is completed to check that they have not been damaged . |
| 22 | The only reason now , looking at the way knitwear is going or any products going , the only way now that we can get the latest is if we design er oh er design new ideas that are want something fresh or fashion takes over . |
| 23 | Because you know they came up , they were full of the joys of spring , looking around , chatting to their friends and then they r started looking at the stepping stone . |
| 24 | This shop was still open , but Boy stayed outside , looking at the window display . |
| 25 | We talked with our students about the freedoms of college life , and suggested that they might judge whether or not certain behaviour was ‘ age appropriate ’ by looking at the nursery nurses ( incorrectly and naïvely assuming the latter would unfailingly provide the models we sought ! ) . |
| 26 | Extending the curriculum to include a range of applications which more adequately than at present represents the kinds of human endeavour where mathematics is used would be another such change , with fewer examples involving ballistics and war , for instance , and more involving such activities as working with fabrics , designing appliances for the disabled or looking at the school canteen 's queuing problems . |
| 27 | They had left Anna sitting in Sister Ignatia 's study , looking at the school prospectus . |
| 28 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're looking at the resistance mechanisms and hope to develop technology to control insects by stopping them developing resistance . ’ |
| 30 | What a queasy period those inter-war years now seem ( I am looking at the chicken curry ) , the old hatreds and prejudices simmering and bubbling nicely with all the dark , irrational fears surfacing in a way that rational people like Cohn-Casson believed had long ago been rendered obsolete by the evolutionary nature of society . |