Example sentences of "to look at the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The names of those attending the wedding are usually known in advance but if not you may be able to look at the seating plan or guest list on the day and make some joke about the names , picking out amusing surnames such as , ‘ In this room we have a Black but no White , two Browns , some Blues , and a Green , but no ‘ reds ’ . |
| 2 | When he came to look at the poem Miss Gilberd had intended to teach , Toby rather wondered at her judgement . |
| 3 | The family proceedings court has to look at the Welfare Checklist ( section 1 , 1989 Children Act ) and , as the writers say , the conflict between the child 's welfare being paramount and the need to protect the community present a real paradox . |
| 4 | Erm the process check list erm again they 've identified the people on each erm and within that they 've actually nominated people to look at the land ownership which is the , on the ignored with their rider on the previous sheet . |
| 5 | Is the on the C V T , but again it 's , it 's easier to look at something when we 're talking about this , so I 'm going to ask you to look at the Covermaster rate book , which does n't have page numbers , but I want you to find the allocation to units table which is about four or five pages in . |
| 6 | ‘ Imagine him volunteering to look at the chicken pie . |
| 7 | We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food . |
| 8 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 9 | The functions of the organisation should therefore be kept in mind in data analysis , even though in principle data analysis should attempt to look at the organisation independent of any processes . |
| 10 | Has my right hon. Friend had a chance to look at the Order Paper recently ? |
| 11 | Hoping no one was watching , Coleman climbed the tower 's inspection ladder to look at the frequency allocation on the antennae . |
| 12 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 13 | One only needed to look at the Government Training Centre at Boucher Road in West Belfast for a good example . |
| 14 | In the following exercise you must find what feature or features certain groups of segments have in common ; you will probably find it useful to look at the IPA chart on pp. 40–1 . |
| 15 | We shall also have to look at the electricity industry , where the Government produced two large generation companies solely to try to privatise nuclear power . |
| 16 | just want to look at the carbonate system in a bit more detail . |
| 17 | One way of analysing video programmes is to look at the film techniques employed : editing decisions , camera angles , the way images are juxtaposed all have an effect on the viewer , who is often unaware of it . |
| 18 | He went to look at the window sill and there was this think it 's about time You did something about these . |
| 19 | SCOTVEC therefore welcomed the decision of SED to set up a small committee to look at the module/short course issues , particularly in the context of schools ' S3/4 stages . |
| 20 | It 's also suggested that we have to look at the funding issues . |
| 21 | She could see it in the covert glances of the London girls , some of whom had been planning how to look at the Belvoir dance for the past month . |
| 22 | Hello seven three one eight , no Roger 's off duty at the moment it 's Chris here erm , he should be , hang on I 'll just have to look at the watch roster and check up on precisely what his movements are , erm just look through tomorrow and I can find the right page in the roster here , er , two thir yeah , he 'll be on tower , so he 'll be in first thing tomorrow from about seven , seven o'clock onwards . |
| 23 | And we used to get very worked up about it , and then we went down to fetch our wages , and the older ones were always going to complain , but this erm tt er son of the people , he used to look at the factory clock opposite , and it would be half past three , and he 'd said , Right , I 'll pay you till three o'clock , and we 'll make it right next week . |
| 24 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 25 | Patterson ( 1986 ) has recently started to look at the contribution siblings make to the development of aggressive behaviour . |
| 26 | I mean you 'd need to look at the touring schedules and things |
| 27 | ‘ And you 're not having this dress , ’ Nora said , bending down to look at the price tag . |
| 28 | Gloria lead Dot up the outside steps from the basement to look at the cotton flags flapping in the sun . |
| 29 | You just need to look at the disaster situation on the Pennine Way . |
| 30 | In doing so , the counsellor has to look at the family dynamic with a particular emphasis on those factors which impinge upon the life of the ageing family member , but to be seen as anything other than impartial , particularly when there is jealousy and conflict within the family group , can lead to a lack of trust and the possible withdrawal of co-operation and participation by some family members . |