Example sentences of "look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he always had to give the next , his companion , a chance , and he himself just looked on . |
| 32 | The very word ‘ teaching ’ came to be looked on with disfavour , implying , as it did , an unacceptable de-haut-en-bas presumption with regard to the teacher 's role . |
| 33 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 34 | I believe tobacco-smoke is the most effectual , but to one not a smoker it would require to be a case of hiring another to the office of smoking away the midges — a work many would gladly undertake , for tobacco is looked on in the Highlands as a very great good , almost as essential as the whiskey . |
| 35 | Thus it was looked on as ‘ the all important matter ’ . |
| 36 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 37 | It was looked on as not advisable to deal with it under the Liverpool Corporation Act . |
| 38 | This history should be looked on as my attempt to explore the history of the College so as best to understand why it has become what it is today . |
| 39 | Smith claimed that , although Coleman invited medical men to attend the College with the promise of an early diploma , these educated people were not looked on with favour , for they were able to see through Coleman 's ‘ shallow and fatuous system ’ . |
| 40 | Patsy Poppleton , who is engaged in research at the Pain Relief Clinic at Abingdon Hospital , resents the fact that research nurses are often looked on as ‘ slaves and handmaidens to doctors ’ . |
| 41 | Although my toys are an important collection , I am wary of them being looked on as investments or high-price commodities like works of art . |
| 42 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 43 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 44 | And now today she was going to start out as a student , this lovely girl that Emily still looked on with awe . |
| 45 | Police just looked on . |
| 46 | Societal expectations are changing in Britain and the fat toddler is no longer looked on with affection , but some cultural minority groups still feel that the young child should be fed and pampered . |
| 47 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 48 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 49 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
| 50 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |
| 51 | During World War II , it was the rough-and-ready American GI who could fix the stalled jeep in Normandy while the French regiment only looked on . |
| 52 | The naive inductivist account of science , which I will outline in the following sections , can be looked on as an attempt to formalize this popular picture of science . |
| 53 | Writing of murder thus , in a thoroughly formal way , you can successfully establish two different things : that a murder has taken place and in consequence the story you are telling must be looked on as being of some weight , and that nothing has happened to arouse any revulsion in your readers . |
| 54 | Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner . |
| 55 | looked on across a fence . |
| 56 | If we 're not careful , we will always be looked on as yesterday 's men . ’ |
| 57 | Being Nordic , and regarded as a neutral , he had come to be looked on as port representative for foreign ships passing through the Magellan Strait , a sort of consul . |
| 58 | In particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion . |
| 59 | Thousands of townsfolk just looked on and cheered the thugs . |
| 60 | For Davidson , the cost in terms of senior management time has to be looked on as ‘ an investment : you ca n't afford to spend less time on it . |