Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] [adv] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed with my mother 's parents in Eltham and I wrote to every theatre company and virtually every person in the world , but nobody would even look at me because I had n't done drama school . |
| 2 | These are the books which it is nice to have which cost a lot to look after , but which nobody can ever look at because they are so valuable . |
| 3 | We should also not rule out the possibility that one may properly look to a historical explanation , just as a historical explanation underlies the fact that the comparatives of tired and spoilt — derived from verbs — are analytic , as in : ( 56 ) Declan is more spoilt than Karen Declan 's mother is more tired than Karen 's mother rather than the synthetic forms — tireder , spoilter — which we should expect from the monosyllabic adjectives which they have become . |
| 4 | Accepting the definition of a symbol given in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary as ‘ a material object representing or taken to represent something immaterial or abstract ’ , one may safely look to archaeology , a discipline whose very existence depends on its ability to learn from things what is not available in words . |
| 5 | One should certainly look at the following poems : |
| 6 | His blue eyes still fixed on her face , he continued blandly , ‘ But one should never look for leprechauns alone . |
| 7 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 8 | But on top of that one must then look into the future , the future supply of such properties , and the future o er of a whole range of issues which may occur locally and which can only really be decided by the district councils in their local plan work . |
| 9 | If wider costs were to be considered , one could also look to savings from reduced pollution , energy consumption and accident rates , quite apart from the health maintenance benefits of a walking population . |
| 10 | The precedents for this kind of poem go back to the seventeenth century , and one could usefully look at Pope 's Windsor Forest or Dyer 's Grongar Hill . |
| 11 | No longer did one have to sound right , one need only look right — or , at the very least , different . |
| 12 | A consistently competitive rate is part of the deal , and one need only look at Abbey National 's interest rates over the past few years . |
| 13 | ‘ Suppose among those late plans — which no one will even look at now — suppose there are schemes so much superior to those already submitted that they would save hundreds of thousands in running costs each year ? ’ |
| 14 | Smith ( 1984 , ix ) , for example , argues ‘ one can hardly look at the world today without perceiving that , at the hands of capital , the last two decades have witnessed an emergent restructuring of geographical space more dramatic than any before ’ , instancing de-industrialization and regional decline , changes in the distribution of population in metropolitan areas , and the nascent industrialization of the Third World . |
| 15 | But whereas one can at least look underneath the books for evidence of something underneath them , one can never look ‘ outside ’ reality . |
| 16 | From a high dune vantage point one can only look in awe at the purple dappled carpet spread out below . |
| 17 | Despite all our scientific study of the physical world , one can still look with wonder at the panorama of ‘ ordinary ’ objects and events presented to us by our senses and can still — indeed should — ask the basic question : ‘ What is it all , fundamentally ? ’ |
| 18 | But like every artist , one can always look back and see where things could have been improved . |
| 19 | It is essential in a well-run company that in addition to the feeling of plenty of headroom and space to create and carry out one 's job , there should be absolute confidence that those above will support one and that one can always look to them as a resource or as a help . |
| 20 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |