Example sentences of "look to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While people look to the Tories to make money , they look to Labour to spend it to more social purpose . |
| 2 | Black kids , suspicious and pessimistic about their chances of gaining success in regular employment in the ‘ system ’ , look to alternative models upon which to base their own roles in society . |
| 3 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
| 4 | And God tells him , he says , you make a serpent of brass and put it on a pole in the middle of the camp so that everybody can see it they look to that serpent of brass , they will be healed . |
| 5 | Finally , there are those of a Marxist persuasion , who look to higher education enabling students to form a critical perspective on society and social affairs , and on that basis to effect radical social change . |
| 6 | Richard had not lost his sense of fun — his ability to push aside the vexations of the moment and look to better things ahead . |
| 7 | But they were as aware as anyone of the variables of timing and electoral fortune which could dictate the succession or lead Tory MPs to ‘ skip a generation ’ and look to such figures as John Major and Chris Patten . |
| 8 | The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world . |
| 9 | As commercial disputants look to other means of settling disputes — tribunal , arbitration , alternative dispute resolution — it is hard enough that law firms are having to set themselves up in competition with non-lawyers to provide these services . |
| 10 | RBGE must follow suit or possibly look to other styles of publication . |
| 11 | If we look to existing trends for advice , it seems likely that the coffin stools , hearse and candles would have been kept at the church and put into place by the parish clerk and/or sexton . |
| 12 | Neighbours ' twins look to big panto hit at the Empire |
| 13 | They therefore look to social stratification to see how far it meets these functional prerequisites . |
| 14 | We look to improved insulin delivery systems , perhaps suppression of the immunological insult to the islet and methods of enhancing insulin receptor activity . |
| 15 | Some advisers suggest that you look to past precedents within the company ; others recommend that you gear your expectations to the financial sum that you expect to require in order to exist in reasonable comfort until another job comes along ; others simply suggest that you look for payment of a year 's full salary . |
| 16 | They look to local authority housing and social services departments to help them achieve a basic human right . |
| 17 | I look to those responsible , including local authorities , to use these resources wisely and to improve the value for money in the services they buy . |
| 18 | Many look to those classical theorists , such as J. S. Mill and Jean-Jacques Rousseau , who argued for a participatory system of democracy where citizens are sovereign . |
| 19 | In particular , the younger inhabitants of the village increasingly look to urban centres for their entertainment . |
| 20 | All , therefore , look to post-ordination training ( POT ) , the training incumbent , and in-service clergy training ( or CME ) , to build on what has already been learnt . |
| 21 | This is because speakers of these German dialects look to German as their standard language , read and write in German and listen to German on radio and television . |
| 22 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |