Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of that research has , in turn , been inspired by an attempt , especially among American psychologists , to understand and predict ‘ giftedness ’ : as such , in seeking reasons for differences in creativity , their preference has naturally been to look for evidence of the latter 's association with excellence , superiority , and health rather than with maladjustment or psychological deviance . |
| 2 | And here is Edward , who has so been looking forward to a new playmate ! ’ |
| 3 | Morgan Grenfell seems happy and has not been looking over Mr Massey 's shoulder . |
| 4 | Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack . |
| 5 | ‘ Our policy has always been to look after our customers , not alone supplying them with greeting cards , but also providing them with the back-up services , such as merchandising , advertising material and general advice on how to lay out an effective display , ’ he added . |
| 6 | As the language of the Vedic scriptures , Sanskrit has always been looked down upon by tradition as the language of the divine . |
| 7 | A case that is considered thoroughly is looked at in the round and all the relevant factors are taken into proper consideration . |
| 8 | The faint-object camera has also been looking at the remnants of the supernova which excited astronomers in 1987 . |
| 9 | oh , any thing at all , just looking at cars and getting the design right so you cut down on accidents , really I think that this has n't been looked at because its male dominated |
| 10 | Of course it does n't affect the really big fish , but even important officials who recanted formally are looking over their shoulders at the moment . |
| 11 | But he gave an account of having grown up being looked after by black servants because both his parents worked , and he claimed that , after they had separated , a black housekeeper named Evelyn became almost a mother-figure to him . |
| 12 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 13 | We 'd really been looking forward to our trip to the Brecon Beacons . |
| 14 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 15 | Erm , what we 're gon na do now is look at some number crunching and what I 'll do is give you Pearson 's erm formula for calculating the correlation coefficient . |
| 16 | Jay , however , is less forthcoming when it comes to defining exactly what it is he and his colleagues at Talkin' Loud are looking for . |
| 17 | Plumpton yesterday passed a 10am inspection , and prospects of racing tomorrow are looking good . |
| 18 | And what I want to do now is to look at two elements . |
| 19 | What we are actually going to do today is to look using this data , is to look at structural stability , right , we 're going to ask ourselves are the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample , are they constant over time . |
| 20 | Now what we have to do however is look at it in more in more detail than just simply the age of people . |
| 21 | Jennie did not realize the purpose of the mirrors and would shout , ‘ Do n't be looking at yerself , do n't be admiring yerself in the mirror . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't be looking so worried . ’ |
| 23 | What we do instead is to look for partial theories that will describe situations in which certain interactions can be ignored or approximated in a simple manner . |
| 24 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 25 | After spending a few weeks there , he flew to Frankfurt on 29 May , where he rejoined Mary-Claude and the children , who had meanwhile been looked after by Mother Teresa 's Sisters of Charity . |
| 26 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 27 | Greg Hocking had not been looking forward to ringing Jackson 's the publishers about the Walter Machin papers . |
| 28 | While she had not been looking where she was going , Rose had quietly taken her support . |
| 29 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 30 | Computers are used in all walks of life , although so far in our series of programmes we 've largely been looking at scientific applications . |