Example sentences of "[verb] look [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So if you think of what Y equals X squared looks like , yeah ?
2 The argument in favour of plumping looks at first sight convincing enough : in the later stages of the count your own party will stand a chance of benefiting from the transferred lower preferences expressed by supporters of other parties , whilst those parties will not benefit from the transferred lower preferences of your own supporters since they wo n't have expressed any .
3 They would 've looked at the lights , I know .
4 It looks looks looks like my mother , yeah dun n it .
5 Dr Jim Howe , Tony 's doctor , said : ‘ His parents said how peaceful their son has looked over his last few days and how relieved they are that he is finally at rest . ’
6 In his television broadcasts since returning from Iran , Ceausescu has looked under severe pressure .
7 Michael Ryan has looked for a rapprochement between deconstruction and Marxism .
8 Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks .
9 But apparently no one else has looked for a phage that might produce such a toxin .
10 Accordingly , the disability rights movement has looked for lessons from abroad when drawing up a manifesto for reform .
11 The rebuilding is still taking place , but while they perhaps lack Wigan 's all-round capability , some of the assurance that carried them so successfully through two-thirds of last season has looked to be returning , and they could possess the forward strength to disrupt Wigan 's composure .
12 SCOTLAND manager Andy Roxburgh has looked to Rangers and Celtic to provide the platform for his World Cup challenge .
13 Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday .
14 The £2 million costs are being found by the museum itself , together with Strathclyde Regional Council and the Fondation Mécénat which has looked to private sponsorship .
15 Mr Benn , who often comes to our help at these moments , has promised that as soon as a Labour government under Mr Kinnock has looked at the books and realised the true extent of the crisis , it will realise the need for serious measures .
16 Mr Duff has looked at four possible open air venues but is likely to settle for one end of the Headlingley rugby pitch with 2,000 seats around the ring and the use of the stand .
17 The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone .
18 Robin Perutz , from the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory in Oxford , has looked at the reactive molecule formed when Green 's compound is irradiated with light .
19 The strange thing is that the SERC itself has looked at similar issues in a report on the ‘ decline in physics ’ ( ie ‘ little ’ as opposed to ‘ big ’ physics , which includes the solid state physics that underpins materials science and microelectronics ) .
20 Strictly speaking , though , the possibility remains that heritable cancer genes may exist : no-one else has looked at normal tissues from cancer patients .
21 This article has looked at how a theoretical transfer price can be calculated in a simple situation .
22 C.C. Valerie Way is the only person in school who has looked at home/school links .
23 The chapter has also explored possible reasons why teachers adopt transmission patterns of teaching , but has looked at this not in terms of why teachers fail to do something else , but in terms of what purposes transmission teaching serves for them .
24 And the tutor 's impressions of one student are unlikely to remain vivid after he/she has looked at the work of a few more students .
25 ‘ Now I 'm in the voucher scheme I feel safer knowing that the council has looked at the people it employs , and if there 's any difficulty I can go to Joan [ the manager ] . ’
26 This upward movement in the social hierarchy by many working-class boys ( significantly none of the studies has looked at girls ) has not been achieved at the expense of the opportunities of children from middle-class backgrounds , but by an explosion in the number of middle-class jobs — or an expansion in the service class or the salariat .
27 A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) .
28 This chapter has looked at the importance of temporary jobs as a source of flows both from unemployment into employment and from employment into unemployment .
29 Accordingly , recent work has looked at new ways of defining rural deprivation over and above the arithmetic of woe shown in Tables 6.5 and 6.6 .
30 But today he has looked at me two or three times in a certain way . "
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