Example sentences of "looking at [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 2 | Moreover , the cross-curricular Working Party which is looking at a variety of themes including Economic Awareness , will also make demands on the support of the local business community . |
| 3 | The allegations were confirmed by US Secretary of State James Baker who said on July 1 that the Bush administration was " looking at a variety of options " , said to include policing by UN guards , to halt the illegal flow of oil and commercial goods across the Iraqi-Jordanian border . |
| 4 | This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers . |
| 5 | We are looking at a cost of about five hundred pound for these , plus two hundred pound shipping charges , and we 're going to need four or five of them . |
| 6 | It did n't exactly lend weight to my decision to realize , when I 'd finished making it , that I was standing outside a second-hand jeweller 's looking at a selection of gold rings . |
| 7 | You often hear people say , looking at a work of abstract art : ‘ That would look nice as a curtain ’ . |
| 8 | She was looking at a man in an evening clothe . |
| 9 | So we 're l , we 're l , we 're looking at a couple of the options to see , you know , how much will it cost to actually put the money on the policy rather than going to the effort of writing it out , and it 's gon na cost about two hundred thousand pounds just to do that , erm and that , we need , we need to weigh that up with the cost of actually dealing with ten thousand letters to clients , ten thousand enquiries erm I just wondered what your thoughts were on how we should proceed . |
| 10 | Sir Neville Cardus , another great music critic writing about the history of music , likened the image of great composers such as Bach , Mozart and Beethoven as , ‘ Looking at a range of mountains , those names are on the summits then one comes to a plateau — and there standing out and rising from it is the cathedral of César Franck . ’ |
| 11 | Users of injecting drugs can protect themselves by looking at a range of options for drug use other than injecting . |
| 12 | it 's not one that will inspire me with erm with , with great kind of nationalistic fervour as might have happened in the past when , when you look at nationalistic movements , so erm presumably we 're looking at a range of behaviour which goes from extreme fanatical group membership to relatively weak identification with a group but really does n't to anything else but saying you know if you ask me what I 'll say I was British . |
| 13 | Last week employment secretary Michael Howard announced he was looking at a range of measures to boost tourism in Britain currently worth £25bn a year . |
| 14 | The dealer got more and more paranoid sitting there , noticing these two guys in the corner who kept looking at a bit of paper then at him , then having a bit of a conflab . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the three pioneers are readying themselves for a surge of interest : Marcos has appointed its Coventry engine supplier , JE Engineering , as its first distributor , Westfield is looking at a trio of dealers and Caterham plans to appoint half a dozen Rover distributors as service agents for the K-series engine that will power its first ‘ turn-key ’ car . |
| 16 | I 've got to get some sleep , ’ the impresario said , eating a spoonful of caviar and looking at a column about grosses in Variety . |
| 17 | ‘ I stood there a long time , looking at a row of the most twisted , gnarled , sorry-looking pollard willows I have ever seen . |
| 18 | However we also made it clear that as one part of Labour 's wider democratic agenda , that we were sympathetic to looking at a plurality of electoral systems and that this might include legislating for a regional list system of proportional representation for future European elections . |
| 19 | Which does n't really matter , because just we 're just looking at a snap-shot of |
| 20 | Okay , so we 're looking at a flow of communication from the top of the structure to the bottom of the structure , orders , directions , instructions , feedback . |
| 21 | Then , or at home looking at a map of Britain , the West calls , out of Wiltshire and out of Cornwall and Devon beyond , out of Monmouth and Glamorgan and Gower and Caermarthen , with a voice of dead Townsends , Eastaways , Thomases , Phillipses , Treharnes , Marendaz , sea men and mountain men . |
| 22 | But even looking at a map of an area you already know can be interesting . |
| 23 | I think it 's quite important to orientate ourselves first , and you 're looking at a map of Oxford in 1643 , erm and 17th century maps for the most part are what we should call upside down . |
| 24 | The speed with which immense transformations took place became legendary — and an occasion for wry humour ; a cartoon of the period shows a respectable man looking at a heap of rubble and saying : ‘ But this is where I live and I ca n't even find my wife . ’ |
| 25 | The second thing I found quickly by looking at a newspaper in a coffee-shop : the day 's date . |
| 26 | Comparison of illustrations of the same picture in several publications will demonstrate this truism , while the best test of looking at a reproduction in front of the picture itself can be a disheartening experience . |
| 27 | A minute later her head was as high as the tallest tree in the wood , and she was looking at a sea of green leaves . |
| 28 | We have both , ’ said this extraordinary old man , looking at a hamper on the seat beside him . |
| 29 | Looking at a lecture on video is not the same as being present at it . |
| 30 | So when you 're looking at a file on the screen , what you 're looking at is the file as it is in the , in the memory of the computer , and if you change your spreadsheet , then all you 're doing is changing what 's in the memory . |