Example sentences of "[adj] to look to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the field of training we must always be prepared to look to the future and , if considered necessary , modify our teaching procedures . |
| 2 | This is seen as part of its policy to make citizens more self-reliant , and less prone to look to the state for financial and practical support when they are out of work , chronically sick , elderly and infirm and so on . |
| 3 | He was also for much of the middle part of his life financially sufficiently insecure to look to the personal aid and patronage of others , including Claphamites , from whose psychologically stabilising intimacies he was excluded . |
| 4 | ‘ Cook 's sister 's not well , not at all and she 's gone into Inverary to look to her family , so I said I 'd get dinner . |
| 5 | But it was still imperative to look to the horizon hopefully , or quit . |
| 6 | As Westernizing tribes like the Kikuyu became more and more politically active , it was only natural to look to the Masai , who showed no interest in either taxation or representation , as a potential ‘ counterpoise to the agitator class ’ . |
| 7 | Certainly it is natural to look to law in some form or another as a force-controlling mechanism ( Watson , 1982 , p. 71 ) . |
| 8 | Proper names are paradigm referential symbols , and it seems natural to look to them for clues . |
| 9 | So it was logical to acquire Pitlochry through a share exchange , and it 'll be logical to look to a flotation . ’ |
| 10 | How care management and care programming are integrated remains to be seen , and it seemed reasonable to look to the community care plans for local authority policies on the question . |
| 11 | Today America must be able to look to Europe for support in containing less predictable threats to the values they have in common from outside Europe . |
| 12 | Senior managers should be able to look to the external environment in order to obtain messages about likely future trends , for example in the demand for services , resources that may be available , changes in the legislative framework , etc . |
| 13 | Meanwhile for the first time since 1863 , the needy of Herefordshire will no longer be able to look to the sisters of Bartestree for compassion and care . |
| 14 | Meanwhile for the first time since 1863 , the needy of Herefordshire will no longer be able to look to the sisters of Bartestree for compassion and care . |
| 15 | Although as Eleanor Gordon has remarked , the family wage was hardly a reality for most Scottish working-class families , its notional existence had an impact on wages paid to women : if the normal " women 's wage " was low , employers taking on women for newly created jobs were unlikely to look to the male rate as a guide . |
| 16 | As far as the direct effects of test-case litigation are concerned , therefore , experience both here and in the USA suggests that it would be unwise to look to the courts alone to secure a right of tax-diversion . |
| 17 | It is unreasonable to look to the school to supply all the musical needs of the parish . |
| 18 | In academic writings it is probably more common to look to an earlier period as the time when family solidarity was of prime importance . |
| 19 | Initially , an attempt was made to fill the labour shortages by allowing over 100,000 Poles to stay on in Britain and by encouraging immigration from other European countries , but soon it was felt necessary to look to other sources of cheap labour , and immigration from the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent was encouraged . |
| 20 | If your timing is right , Positive ideas of this kind may well give her hope and encouragement , but they should not be introduced too early in the grieving process , or she may regard them almost as an insult to the depth of her sorrow at a time when she is not yet ready to look to the future . |
| 21 | An equitable assignee is entitled to look to the bank for payment . |
| 22 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that our friends and allies round the world who may be faced with potentially aggressive neighbours are entitled to look to us for support in arms sales , for example , of the Challenger tank which is made in Leeds , and that nothing proposed on restricting arms sales generally in the interests of world peace will prevent us from supporting our allies in circumstances where that is necessary ? |