Example sentences of "[adv] looks to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The president , in the modern age , is the key political actor and the public constantly looks to him for initiatives , services and solutions . |
| 2 | But the geographical differences pale when they are compared to the deep threefold divisions which rend the city itself : of language ( four-fifths of the population speak French , only one fifth English and the smaller languages ) ; of culture ( the French-speaking part naturally looks to France and French literature for its mores , while the English-speaking part relies on the attachment to the Commonwealth and its close neighbour , the United States of America ) ; and of religion ( for the gulfs here are wider than the Atlantic as the former protestant cross-sectioning of Episcopalianism/Presbyterianism meets the Roman Catholicism of the French , and both meet the surging secularism and agnosticism of our day ) . |
| 3 | Since the political and ideological instances are just as necessary for the existence of a social formation , they seem to be equally determining , and the economic ‘ base ’ no longer looks to be especially basic . |
| 4 | He no longer looks to a divine plan to resolve the contest : ‘ the minds of men are the great wheels of things ; thence come changes and alterations in the world . ’ |
| 5 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 6 | But which party genuinely looks to the future and offers the best for our children ? |
| 7 | Davies still looks to Labour as the likeliest carrier for such ideas . |
| 8 | But what now clearly looks to be the gravest threat to Mr Ceausescu 's 24-year period of iron rule remained unreported by the Romanian media . |
| 9 | On the other hand , he clearly looks to God as his Father , and into this Father 's hand he commits his spirit when he dies . |
| 10 | He respects the expectations of future beneficiaries ; by allowing the bonorum emptor temporary possession of the trust property he also looks to the interests of the creditors . |
| 11 | No doubt there were also climatic factors involved and one automatically looks to the reconstruction maps to see if all the reef . |
| 12 | The priority for Leeds at the start of the season was a place in Europe and despite leading the table for much of the season that now looks to be their only target — although it is far from guaranteed . |
| 13 | So all in all an excellent result for Washroom which now looks to be a good stable portfolio increasing at a respectable rate . |
| 14 | Kelly , right now looks to be the most likely , and Possibly only Leeds player to be going to the world cup . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been sent a very favourable letter from the council and there now looks to be no problems on that score , ’ added Deakin . |
| 16 | A shot at next month 's Carling Black Label Stakes at Cleveland Park next month , now looks to be on the agenda . |
| 17 | The matter of the drama continues to be eclectic as Eliot pokes beneath the glossy city surface to hidden depths of feeling , and as so often looks to Buddhism as well as Christianity . |
| 18 | It would be perverse to find fault with the elevation of Aids awareness to the status of a rock cause , and particularly silly to fret about performance infelicities ( nobody really looks to David Bowie for enlightenment , do they ? ) providing the message gets across and the money comes in . |
| 19 | In the 1990s , British youth culture increasingly looks to a European milieu rather than North America . |
| 20 | Er there 's no well there looks to be a trend towards higher grade er in in category three patients an and again more er more T one tumours . |
| 21 | I could well , could well be the same event as that because he certainly looks to be the right sort of character . |
| 22 | More cash from exclusive sponsorship and television deals certainly looks to be the only major difference . |
| 23 | Among the traditional vendors we have Sun 's Folio F3 format , which actually looks to be a serious contender for the industry standard , and then there is Compugraphic 's Intellifont which is also being used by Hewlett-Packard , not to mention Bitstream and the as-yet-undecided font format for Microsoft 's Presentation Manager . |