Example sentences of "looking at the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're sometimes so busy looking at the wood that you do n't smell the trees are rotten . ’ |
| 2 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 3 | This involves students in the examination of conflicts between and within societies , and draws on the insights of political scientists , historians , social scientists and philosophers in looking at the origin and nature of such conflicts and the means of resolving them . |
| 4 | Similarly , IPCC is looking at the possibility that sulphate pollution in the northern hemisphere is reflecting the sun 's heat and retarding global warming — another case where pollution control could raise fresh problems . |
| 5 | This seems a more satisfactory way of looking at the possibility that a society may be an organic unity than Moore 's principles allow . |
| 6 | Four months later her killer is still at large and detectives are looking at the possibility that she may not have been his first victim |
| 7 | And then his mind cleared , and he was looking at the Robemaker and feeling contempt for him again , feeling as well , the dangerous , powerful white spears of the Stroicim Inchinn withdraw , so that he knew the Robemaker had again called up the Stroicim without giving any outward indication of having done so . |
| 8 | She was still looking at the tree when , suddenly , the Cat appeared again . |
| 9 | He 'd gone to the window and pulled the curtain back , looking at the dampness and the wire and the swimming-pool , the surface ruffled by rain . |
| 10 | Looking at the cassette and tape itself will tell you nothing about the film itself . |
| 11 | So once you get towards , take a clock in , make sure you pace yourself , and say at the end of that just put in a sort of sentence to make it look as if it 's been finished off Erm , what I usually do when I do an exam is I spend the first five minutes actually looking at the questions because initially you look for the ones that you 've revised and you see but there may be others there , there 're you can do in a slightly different way than the way that they first appear and that might help you quite a bit , although there are no trick questions in this . |
| 12 | A day-school looking at the structure and fabric of plant and animal life , organised by the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education . |
| 13 | 1 Education and communities is concerned with the evolution of multi-cultural society , looking at the structure and responses of communities , the effects of legislation on them , and conflicts within the education system . |
| 14 | ‘ We were looking at the issue but there was no commitment from us , ’ said a senior British official . |
| 15 | I have another eyepiece on the end which is suitable for looking at the stars and planets . |
| 16 | The effect of such correction can , in some instances , be dramatic , as in the case of a child who , after receiving his first pair of spectacles , spent several evenings looking at the stars as it was the first time he had ever been able to see them . |
| 17 | Such brief ‘ thumb-nail ’ sketches do give some indication of the essence of sociology , but ultimately it is both necessary and perhaps more fruitful to emphasise that the most important and distinctive feature of sociology is not so much what is studied but how it is studied , i.e. it is important to indicate what is the particular perspective of sociology , its distinct way of looking at the individual and society . |
| 18 | That there is some common ground is shown by the welcome that the hon. Gentleman gave to the concept of the Public Accounts Committee looking at the regulators and to our slightly wider suggestion that there should be a Select Committee to deal with the matter . |
| 19 | Er , well it 's not so much that , I keep looking at the clock and then we 'll he 'll be , he 'll |
| 20 | Fourteen two , erm the great problem is it 's easier to get if an afternoon meeting can finish at a reasonable time , then I can probably but erm I think if you , if you 're looking at the clock when home in the evening for a number of reasons it might be then I would this and unless we can sort of put a restricted time on the agenda which is impossible , I can imagine coming down here at two o'clock for the meeting . |
| 21 | Never mind I 'll go and see Tony A drink of wine sit by the window looking at the moon and watch the shadows of the trees dancing on the wallpaper . |
| 22 | We can test the fairness of the council tax by looking at the bill that the Secretary of State himself will face . |
| 23 | The more opportunities he/she has of looking at the illustrations and reading the captions with you , the more he/she will come to recognise the words . |
| 24 | AS a third part of a nanny share I have been looking at the law and the availability of Liability Insurance . |
| 25 | All the dealers who habitually haunt Sothebys salerooms have been looking at the furniture and glassware and silver . |
| 26 | This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it . |
| 27 | By looking at the diagram though , you will probably see that the smaller sleeve length is also narrower at the top than the measurements in your size . |
| 28 | To that end , again we will probably be stronger in that area but t to that end we formed a group of partners who were going to specifically target er that that market place er we drew from the triple A practice and tax practice and M C S. Looking at the products and the reviews to get into that first those those clients . |
| 29 | One can therefore presume that he was not looking at the landscape as scenery but as habitat . |
| 30 | He had stood in the centre of the tiny , cluttered upstairs room , looking at the paintings that covered the wall above the bed . |