Example sentences of "looking into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to academia he can recall the spatial remove as being ‘ out there in the field ’ ; so that much of the current anthropology at home may still only be practising in its own backyard , pursuing an exploration of ‘ exotic cultures at home ’ rather than looking into its own front room ( Cheater 1987 : 166 ) . |
| 2 | He was looking into vacancy with dull eyes . |
| 3 | Looking into custom and practice . |
| 4 | We are aware of changes being introduced by the Inland Revenue from 6.10.91 and our Field Officer , Hilary Bath , is looking into the implications for Age Concern volunteers . |
| 5 | He based the latter on his research into Victorian and Edwardian ‘ salon ’ music and showed what can be done by looking into such highways and byways of music when a particular period atmosphere is needed . |
| 6 | The words also speak of the joy and fun of friendship , of looking into a pool of knowledge , of drinking and lastly of a tender farewell . |
| 7 | The couples frequently face each other looking into each other 's faces and appear to crouch over their feet slightly which emphasises the ‘ down to earth ’ quality as most steps appear to go down into and not out of the ground . |
| 8 | Downstairs , under the aegis of Professor Garth Swanson , researcher Jim Luck is looking into the possibilities of designing and fabricating monolithic high-frequency filters , using gallium arsenide GaAs insulated gate field effect transistors ( igfets ) . |
| 9 | They matched the rugs draped over the equipment on stage , so you appeared to be looking into a stall at a bazaar . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've denounced facts which are there for all to see in the RAI accounts , and the public prosecutors are looking into some of them . |
| 11 | This procedure obviously was not followed in this case and Turning Point is looking into what happened . ’ |
| 12 | At the ever active Theatre Royal , Plymouth , there is a day-long workshop looking into the history of the musical . |
| 13 | CAN YOU , just by looking into someone 's eyes , know whether the speaker is telling the truth ? |
| 14 | Light can be thrown on the administrative efficiency of this Commissariat ( Narkomzem ) by looking into the account of an inspection of it in early 1922 . |
| 15 | To commemorate these key events in world history , Saga is looking into organising various reunions and commemorative tours , gathering together those who fought so gallantly to revisit and remember those events of nearly 50 years ago . |
| 16 | His diary has been well edited : to read it is like looking into a large egg-shell full of bubbles . |
| 17 | He observed the introspection and its richness of imagination with a certain alarm ; Benson looking into himself and finding there , as Ramsey put it , ‘ a huge world of fantasy ’ , which caused him distress and yet conditioned his affection for the human race . |
| 18 | It was like Frazer 's looking into the ‘ abysm of time ’ , but it was a vision only imperfectly appreciated by Charlie Mears , as the narrator of ‘ The Finest Story in the World ’ emphasizes : ‘ Above all , he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds ; and he would retain that ignorance , for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek . ’ |
| 19 | Eliot 's Baudelaire , too , as Moody points out , was capable of ‘ looking into the Shadow ’ . |
| 20 | Imagine Charlie with his sweeping brush and shovel neatly disposing of a pile of horse droppings and then , looking into the camera , observing a passing elephant . |
| 21 | Phoebe was good at looking into things , she discovered ; never brilliant , but perfectly competent . |
| 22 | The soldiers meanwhile were looking into back gardens , dustbins and under hedgerows . |
| 23 | His head rested on the pillow at an unusual angle , the chin tilted abnormally high , so that , from the foot of the bed , Richard was looking into the dark pits of his nostrils . |
| 24 | Mr Patten , speaking at question time in the Commons , told Mr Anthony Beaumont-Dark ( C. Selly Oak ) that there was nothing to prevent the current investigation into the West Midlands Serious Crimes Squad looking into ‘ any other matter … if there are grounds for suspicion ’ . |
| 25 | It is understood there is prima facie evidence of racial bias in several cases which the inquiry , under Mr Donald Shaw , the assistant chief constable , and a team of more than 30 detectives , is looking into . |
| 26 | Looking into those calm , assured faces in this odd setting I felt a stab of the futile longing to communicate that Alan Moorehead described on meeting a family of gorillas . |
| 27 | Anonymity was guaranteed by investigators from Social and Community Planning Research who were looking into reasons why landlords refuse to let empty property . |
| 28 | At the end of last year Hong Kong 's fledgling Securities and Futures Commission started looking into share purchases by Connaught Investors , part of the Jardine empire . |
| 29 | Last October , just before a visit to Hong Kong by a Chinese team of experts looking into the airport , the Hong Kong government suddenly announced that a bridge that is a big part of the project would be paid for entirely with public money ; before , it had said the bridge would be private . |
| 30 | He waited till the boy turned away from the edge of the pool again and was looking into the trees behind him . |