Example sentences of "looking at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our environment reporter Harriet Ryley has been looking at the changing attitude to what we throw away and how we deal with it . |
| 2 | This section begins by looking at the changing fate of old people during the past century as they have retired . |
| 3 | You 're not looking at the stream , you 're looking at the bloody quality and you ca n't stop yourself doing it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not touching it , it stinks , ’ I said , looking at the mouldering debris in the hedge bottom . |
| 5 | Each situation under which law is being used either against or by the peace movement will have to be analysed extensively by looking at the specific arena and the specific legal language spoken . |
| 6 | CACI are also able to build more advanced studies looking at the specific market sectors that a client may be interested in . |
| 7 | She sat on the bed looking at the utter chaos around her . |
| 8 | Never let me have this humiliation , she thought , looking at the drowsing face . |
| 9 | Right , so let's just get back to some numbers erm looking at the European Community right , the producer benefits alright , the European Community common agricultural policy produces benefits thirty three point three billion dollars presumably yes , billion dollars . |
| 10 | In the middle above them stands Herakles , flanked by two warriors ; behind one of these Athena , looking at the central group ; more warriors to left and right . |
| 11 | you could median split them at whatever the medium was and then you 've got two groups to compare erm because it usually looks quite nice if you 've got something comparative as well as looking at the average sort of , you know , pattern of responses on the questionnaire . |
| 12 | The Department of the Environment said it was looking at the legal position of local authorities wanting to control parties . |
| 13 | This may include : — looking at the legal status of a company and its ownership ; — how the company is organised ; — finding out about health and safety at work ; — the role of trade unions ; — working on specific tasks . |
| 14 | Looking at the legal aid scheme overall , it is clear that it offers nothing new in the system for the delivery of legal services . |
| 15 | She thought , looking at the pleasant room : I 'm taking it for granted already ! |
| 16 | ‘ Passed up a couple of total certs to come to your bloody bun-fight , ’ she complained , though she was looking at the poor child all the time , with her eyes half-closed and tossing her head so the sockets would catch the light . |
| 17 | Looking at the present state of the Top 40 singles chart , the recent appearance of a song entitled Dolphins Make Me Cry by Welsh songwriter/guitarist Martyn Joseph was especially surprising . |
| 18 | I notice from the erm County Council 's own er document for today that they remind us that the Panel in looking at the present structure plan in nineteen eighty erm considered whether the county 's wish at that time to have this broad erm kind of sweeping up policy was appropriate . |
| 19 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 20 | ‘ We are looking at the all-round development of the child , not just narrow academic achievement , ’ added Ms Robinson . |
| 21 | What really drives the case for co-operative R&D ventures is the existence of technological spillovers , and it is , therefore , worth looking at the empirical literature on different methods of appropriation , the determinants of imitation costs and imitation times , and estimates of the size of spillovers . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , well , ’ she said reprovingly , looking at the unfinished grate and thinking of all the other duties which McAllister should have performed by now . |
| 23 | Right , so , you know , there 's no econo-matrixes by no means the science and you can essentially get the computer to er tell the story that you want simply by choosing er critical values but nevertheless we 've re probably be reasonably confident in our estimate , particularly if those estimates , we 'll just go back to them , er the er display the regression results again , display them again but those coefficients are elasticities , right , they 're cored with our a priori reasoning right , we put ah , unit elasticity , you may want to test the hypothesis that the elasticity on erm the income variable , that income elasticity is significant given one , just generate computer a T ratio in the hypothesis value being one instead of zero , as in a normal T test , right , and that coefficient point nine five is sufficiently close to one , by looking at the standard error to er further that is an estimate of one you 've got very inelastic er demand erm for the , the textiles , that coefficient , is that the time , I ca n't believe it if that 's all , oh no that 's eight , do n't worry |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | To use a single but important example , it is the difference between looking at the Great War as an event which centred around the policies and machinations of politicians and generals , or one which impinged upon the lives of ordinary people . |
| 26 | Looking at the overall position , farmers might be forgiven for seeing little to cheer in these figures . |
| 27 | In fact towards the end of the book looking at the overall picture it seems that everyone else 's life ends happily in marriage apart from Pip 's , and him meeting Estella in the end completes this sort of feeling of his life not being complete.fulfilled . |
| 28 | And PC Week has been looking at the pre-release development kit for Windows NT , shipping this week , and finds that the new NT File System is not yet complete , and neither are the security features that are tied to it . |
| 29 | One of the most important areas of credit management is risk assessment , not only looking at the individual customer companies concerned , but also at the current financial background in which they operate . |
| 30 | This review process needs to be carried out on a fairly regular basis , perhaps every six months , and it should include looking at the current state of the market to see if there are any new developments that can be applied . |