Example sentences of "a glance at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be difficult to define a formal distinction between this and the page description formats described above , but a glance at the results makes the difference obvious . |
| 2 | You can tell her priorities from a glance at the obituary columns . |
| 3 | A glance at the pages of Gudok , the organ of the railwaymen , will show the style and problems of a central newspaper at this time . |
| 4 | He was sitting there with his head in his hands ; he did not rise when the train passed ; he made no movement ; he did not give a glance at the signs I made him ; and for a long time as the train was carrying me away , I watched his little motionless , grief-stricken figure , lost in the desert , an image of my own despair . |
| 5 | A glance at the shelf containing his long list of books shows us immediately that the bulk of his work was completed when Minto was in her dotage or after she died . |
| 6 | But a glance at the Soviet Union should be enough to remind Mr de Klerk that it is far easier to dismantle his predecessors ' oppressive structures than to build a new democracy in their place . |
| 7 | With his hear pounding in his chest and with barely a glance at the dreaded Bogeyman 's door , he raced along the landing and down the main stairs . |
| 8 | A glance at the inscription and design of a modern coin , for instance , will nearly always tell us which state issued it and the year in which it was manufactured . |
| 9 | With the passing of time , Greek silver coins tended to have a wider diameter and lesser thickness , and a glance at the general appearance of a coin will enable it to be assigned to either the fifth to fourth centuries or the second to first centuries BC ( compare figs. 9 and 6 ) . |
| 10 | A glance at the architectural section of any of the annual handbooks published by the leading denominations or a survey of the denominational press shows how important they had become . |
| 11 | These aesthetic thoughts will have been overcome by a glance at the grass , the playing surface . |
| 12 | A GLANCE at the present political map of the South West shows almost all of the region under Conservative control . |
| 13 | A glance at the harbour shows the fleet is not yet divided along Russian-Ukrainian lines . |
| 14 | A glance at the Chelsea Gardener 's relevant entries shows them to be concisely informative . |
| 15 | There is a rich seam of ‘ Europeanism ’ running through fascist thought , as a quick perusal of Nazi newspapers or a glance at the memoirs of British fascists like Diana Mosley reveals . |
| 16 | Indeed , Catholic theories of federalism are quite explicitly anti-liberal : a glance at the writings of one of the foremost theorists of federalism , Denis de Rougemont , shows the depth of this feeling . |
| 17 | A microscope is essential for their proper study , but even with a hand lens a glance at the surface of a bryozoan colony reveals a number of tiny openings . |
| 18 | Sometimes these similarities are quite obvious : the ferocious teeth of a predatory dinosaur are a sure indication of hunting habits , with hardly a glance at the fangs of living mammalian carnivores . |
| 19 | The end result is an animal that looks very much like some kinds of oyster , although a glance at the internal feeding structures shows at once that they are brachiopods , unrelated to the bivalves they superficially resemble . |
| 20 | They do not want the Palestinians back and a glance at the statistics quickly shows why . |
| 21 | A glance at the awful title suggested the answer ‘ nothing ’ but I soon found that this book is not like all the others . |
| 22 | A glance at the list of institutions discarding books will show that the largest single category is teacher-training colleges , which have been subjected to more than their fair share of amalgamations and closures in recent years . |
| 23 | A glance at the provisions of the Convention makes interesting reading . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll come with you , ’ said Charles , with a glance at the clock . |
| 25 | In a short study it is impossible to deal in depth with the vastly complex web of politics that surrounded Barbarossa ; a glance at the list of popes shows just how complex the situation was ; hardly had any pope become established and negotiations opened , than another was taking his place . |
| 26 | Plumpton climbed into his bus without a glance at the damage and drove off . |
| 27 | The British National Bibliography Research Fund , established in 1975 , includes amongst its aims the promotion of research into the use of books and into reading habits , and has achieved an impact beyond its modest resources — as a glance at the bibliography of this book will show . |
| 28 | But , before leaving the Thatcher phenomenon , a glance at the Falklands War and what preceded it is a must . |
| 29 | A glance at the dictionary definition of the two verbs ‘ to organise ’ and ‘ to manage ’ shows forcibly the inadequacy of the title ‘ organiser ’ to describe the person in charge of a modern-day CAB . |
| 30 | A glance at the newspapers or at the television programme schedules provides a clear indication of this enormous interest in crime , both ‘ real life ’ crime and fictional crime . |