Example sentences of "look into " in BNC.
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| 1 | This needs to be looked into . |
| 2 | Britain became involved with cable early on , the first worthwhile trial being that ‘ … carried out in 1838 by Brooke , an Englishman , across the river Hoohley in India ’ .3 Even as early as 1840 a House of Commons committee had looked into the possibility of connecting Dover with Calais . |
| 3 | Executives at the Ford of Britain headquarters at Brentwood in Essex have undoubtedly already looked into the future and examined what would happen if car production were to end at Dagenham . |
| 4 | I 've looked into the possibility of counselling but all the services are miles away . |
| 5 | ‘ An area I 'd never really looked into — intersexing . |
| 6 | Numbers of people at North 's level at the NSC , the State Department , the CIA and the Defense Department knew that ‘ Ollie was up to something ’ : something hyperactive , makeshift , slightly off-centre , not to be looked into . |
| 7 | Elisabeth had not looked into many of the bedrooms at The Tamarisks — in August they were invariably occupied . |
| 8 | Another aggrieved member wrote ‘ the system of caddies , which is bad and rotten , be thoroughly looked into by a competent committee ’ . |
| 9 | The views of teachers were amongst the matters looked into by the Sheffield University team when carrying out research for the Elton Committee . |
| 10 | It is probable that during the short drive from the palace to Villeneuve l'Etang both decided that certain aspects of court protocol would have to be looked into and that changes would have to be made . |
| 11 | Before 1988 , people facing deportation could have appealed to an ‘ independent Adjudicator ’ or an Immigration Officer who would have looked into their cases , including any compassionate circumstances , and could stop the Home Office from deporting them . |
| 12 | Many such crimes are looked into by special regulatory bodies rather than the police . |
| 13 | Any disagreements between members of the two Houses and the official records are carefully looked into and such is the integrity of the record that any attempt to alter it , except for errors , would undoubtedly result in a national scandal . |
| 14 | An avenue open to persons aggrieved , who feel they have suffered injustice because of maladministration is to ask for their complaints to be looked into by either the Local Commissioner or the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration . |
| 15 | In London the needs of people from ethnic groups are being looked into by other organisations like the Standing Conference of Ethnic Minority Senior Citizens ( address on page 155 ) . |
| 16 | J. S. Trefil and colleagues at the University of Virginia have looked into this suggestion in more detail ( Nature , vol 302 p 111 ) . |
| 17 | But should the barrels stay missing for a while , they are not likely to be posing much of a health hazard — at least , not nearly as much as that posed by the tonnes of poison whose storage , legal or otherwise , is now going to be looked into . |
| 18 | ‘ My husband has looked into Nahum 's affairs , as there was no one else to do it , and has been shocked to find that debts were mounting weekly . ’ |
| 19 | There is no suggestion that any player threw punches , and Graham said : ‘ I 've heard the rumours circulating and I 've looked into it . |
| 20 | Not one of those books on healthy vaginas and wombs which Marigold might easily have looked into but a work on the nasty bacilli which may infest the human reproductive organs after a bungled or septic abortion . |
| 21 | And Adam had looked into his , the wine singing in his head , the incense tapers smouldering , scenting the warm dark air . |
| 22 | If the mother 's face is unresponsive , then the mirror is a thing to be looked at but not looked into . ’ |
| 23 | Official moves to placate the students with promises that their complaints would be looked into eventually succeeded . |
| 24 | NCA have looked into the possibility of re-engining the Caribou with turboprops , probably the P&W PT-6 , but consider that this would increase the purchase price of the airframe , which is a decided attraction at present . |
| 25 | Wrong ‘ Banks and industrialists who have looked into the future know it does not work on present policies . |
| 26 | Perhaps the policeman had looked into Erlich 's face and calculated that if he had not stood aside then he might just have ended up on his back . |
| 27 | He understood more , much more , of the man who had looked into Harry Lawrence 's face , and shot him dead . |
| 28 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 29 | She also felt it was important that inspectors looked into relationships between children and teachers . |
| 30 | ‘ That should be looked into , ’ he said . |