Example sentences of "look [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must look for a way of establishing a relationship between the key of the record and its address , and using this relationship to retrieve the record rapidly . |
| 2 | But if she faced a China intractably hostile , staunchly pro-American and modernising with a vengeance , would the USSR become more amenable or would she look for a means of escape ? |
| 3 | More precisely , we might look for a set of conditions or circumstances which lead to the expectation that Creole would be used in an interaction . |
| 4 | you 'd look for a value of X that you could e make . |
| 5 | On the whole I 'd look for a combination of striking colours and light . |
| 6 | On the whole I 'd look for a combination of colours and light . |
| 7 | To all such approaches to the uses of speech , a strong objection might be made along the following lines : rather than look for a series of static functions or contextual parameters , one should attend directly to the single most important dynamic context of language use , namely conversation , or face-to-face interaction . |
| 8 | Edward Crumwallis was tall , sunken-cheeked , and he bent his neck and head forward towards his companions , making him look like a bird of prey with indigestion . |
| 9 | ‘ Now he has got fascinated by the paper as well , he 's made it look like a field of bridal veils , but it 's going to be difficult to keep it in place when we move it at night . |
| 10 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 11 | Even Princes William and Harry would look like a couple of little paupers in the presence of Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis . |
| 12 | Her boobs may look like a couple of wrung-out teabags , but her granite stomach muscles somehow propel her into perfect proportion . |
| 13 | If a few more of them had had children , legitimate or otherwise , they would n't look like a lot of dried-up old lemons . |
| 14 | The beast which now tore its way from Ed Kelley 's shattered human form did n't look like a lot of laughs . |
| 15 | The picture ( left ) may look like a model of the hotel but is , in fact , the real thing . |
| 16 | It may look like a handful of chocolate buttons . |
| 17 | The eldorado lifestyle may look like a whirl of sun , sea and sangria — but what of the real-life ex-pats , struggling to make ends meet on Spain 's recession-hit Costa del Sol ? |
| 18 | People finally settled on a kind of threshing movement of both arms , which , when combined with the crouch , made the congregation look like a group of canoeists on a particularly tough stretch of water . |
| 19 | Its colouration — light brown with dark brown/black irregular flecks and blotches , make it look like a piece of wood , hence its common name . |
| 20 | Many secondary schools will look to a rationalisation of the timetable on a three-block model , providing in a 25-hour week something like : 11 hours for the core subjects , 10 hours for the foundation subjects , on a modular basis , and 4 hours for guidance , RE , physical education , and extension learning . |
| 21 | Would he also look to a change of driver to help him with the draw he will want at Augusta ? |
| 22 | Your employer may look at a variety of alternative sanctions . |
| 23 | Here , I shall look at a variety of drawing media , both ancient and modern . |
| 24 | We shall look at a fragment of spoken discourse , not in terms of how we would characterise the participants ' shared information , but in terms of a process in which each participant expresses a personal topic within the general topic framework of the conversation as a whole . |
| 25 | Now you can see how easy it is with the numbers to make mistakes especially if you 're multiplying by tens or hundreds or thousands or looking at , trying to just look at a bit of it , oh that 's just , oh hang on is that seven or is that seventeen ? |
| 26 | You must look at a film of him and do all you can to emulate his behaviour . ’ |
| 27 | She could look at a row of colours for hours and never be bored . |
| 28 | We can look at a couple of points : |
| 29 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
| 30 | To gain an impression of the extent of employee theft , we will look at a study of fiddling and pilferage at a medium-sized factory-production bakery in south-east England , undertaken by Jason Ditton ( 1977 ) . |