Example sentences of "to look at the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Erm , and to look at the stories which are of a different time but are still relevant to our time and place , they have a , have a message for us , even though they were set a hundred years ago , they 've still got something to say us , so I think that 's an area we need to explore .
2 When fire protection officials came to look at the dump they discovered mattresses deposited by a bed company , furniture and even potentially hazardous oil cans .
3 Having early disposed of the false idea that in the Middle Ages people believed in a flat earth , Lewis tells us to look at the sky itself .
4 it is really very difficult to stick to a principle when the form of capital can be changed about in the many forms that modern complex conditions will allow … the thing is to look at the spirit which initiates these particular forms of thrift on the part of people .
5 erm er portraits of , er men you have to take i it that erm we could argue Charlotte Bronte was very critical of the men she knew and , the men she thought she might know , and did n't erm , you have to look at the women who feed into the making of them
6 Just to look at the cradle he had ready and waiting with its green cover there in the living room transported him , ‘ though it was only a hospital where she was lying and where I sat near her . ’
7 The concept of an unspecified information need is further developed by Wersig , who looks at a need situation as a problem situation and states that , " the notion of problem treatment process enables us to look at the stages which play an important role within the organism before any behaviour can be observed . "
8 Talbot and Van Gelder looked at each other in silence , then bent forward over Theodore 's shoulders to look at the figures he had added up .
9 Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin .
10 Those who want to argue with his approach just have to look at the trophies he won .
11 Erm I I 'm not sure I need to look at the sheet I I thought it was ten when I looked .
12 And then er part B bundles one , two and three er my Lord you want to look at the documentation which is dealing specifically with the purchase of the wine bar .
13 - Elizabeth Rex , chairman of the Harwich Conservative Association ‘ You only have to look at the way we have annoyed the Establishment and the professions to gauge the success of our populist policies . ’
14 One approach to sites is to look at the way we experience them through our senses .
15 ‘ Is n't it enough to look at the work I 've produced and leave it at that ? ’
16 ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road .
17 You 'll just get to look at the document you ca n't work
18 Our discoveries about their similarities and differences will lead us to examine other passages in Exodus and Numbers , and our desire to explain certain features of all these texts will then encourage us to look at the positions they occupy in the larger narrative , and so discuss their contexts in greater detail .
19 ‘ It was felt it was in the public interest to look at the company which was already insolvent , ’ said a DTI spokeswoman .
20 They will vouch that I stayed here , doing-accounts , going out to look at the carving which were being made for the pageant for the king 's coronation . ’
21 The answer is that even if everyone playing cards always had a certain sort of feeling when they trumped an opponent 's card and had another , different , feeling when they revoked , it would still be the case that to understand what it is to trump , and to revoke , we would have to look at the game itself , that is , at the use of trump-cards in the game .
22 To see how destructive such an inflation can be , one only has to look at the hyperinflation which occurred in Germany in 1922–23 .
23 After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading .
24 I began 1982 with a series of visits to look at the issues which were facing the health service .
25 I would like to look at the people who are being cared for , the people that we 're talking about , are the elderly , quite often these people have lived through two world wars and given up their young married life , they have brought up their children through the bleak days of the general strike , is it right that these people have to suffer the indignity of charity hand-outs ?
26 She was pretending to look at the people who were passing in the street , but Burun was not deceived .
27 There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time .
28 Now now then Geoff we do n't go to Nottingham to look at trees we do n't go to Nottingham to look at the countryside we go to see the shops and spend money .
29 One does not have to look at the report which the hon. Member for Gordon has thrown away with such disdain .
30 I welcome the initiative that have already been started within the County and I shall be going to look at the site which is being offered to us , er but I do feel that we should be progressing these matters as soon as possible .
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