Example sentences of "[noun pl] of looking [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pleasures and rewards of looking after a loved one can be immense . |
| 2 | Nearly a third of the principal carers complained at the first interview about the adverse effects of looking after the dementia sufferer upon their own physical or mental health . |
| 3 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 4 | They had both agreed to adopt after two years of unfruitful marriage , but decided to bypass the responsibilities of looking after a baby . |
| 5 | had had the opportunity for many years of looking at the question in its material phases , of appreciating its hygienic results … |
| 6 | That does mean that they have already had a very difficult exercise in terms of looking at an , an efficiency effectiveness distribution of funding and how they manage the service , and that 's very much tied in with the children 's services plan , which Mike referred to earlier on , and which is later on the agenda . |
| 7 | It makes it very difficult for women to take that first step on the ladder of actually becoming economically active , because they 're caught in an impossible position between the needs of their children and their own personal needs , and until we actually look at the important and validate and give financial support to the caring role that women play , both in terms of looking after the children and looking after elderly relatives , this community care that is being talked about — community care is car on the backs of women , and it 's unpaid and undervalued . |
| 8 | They can bring , through their training and experience , particular and specified ways of looking at a child 's problem . |
| 9 | There are many different ways of looking at a town for the first time . |
| 10 | But there are other ways of looking at the question . |
| 11 | A tin of rings and a ten shilling note , a woodshed and an oak tree , an innocence , never to be reclaimed , a shock which changed even the ways of looking at the ferns and foxgloves , droopy-leaved sallow , buckthorn , white-beam and goat willow . |
| 12 | The Newson studies do , however , suggest ways of looking at the backgrounds of those children we are setting out to serve . |
| 13 | I spent the rest of the evening pretending riveted attention on the discussion while all the time practising ways of looking at the two women without them catching me . |
| 14 | There are other ways of looking at the culture of executive search firms . |
| 15 | It does not , in any obvious way , require any supernatural warrant , while it is less arbitrary or relativistic than other secular ways of looking at the content of morality . |
| 16 | There are two ways of looking at the distinction between line and staff management . |
| 17 | To believe the gospel , respond to Jesus or receive the Spirit are three ways of looking at the same thing ( 2 Cor. 11:4 ) . |
| 18 | There are two main ways of looking at the question of advertising effectiveness — the first is to consider the results of the advertising in achieving target improvements in specific tasks eg increasing brand awareness in a specific market ; the second is to consider the impact of advertising on sales generally . |
| 19 | The hon. Member for Northampton , North ( Mr. Marlow ) has some interesting ways of looking at the problem , but he did not look at the fact that there are proven ways of taking young people who have committed offences and giving them a chance to confront their criminality . |
| 20 | Within the natural sciences there was little of that passionate and puzzled confrontation which occurs when there is a clash , not of different hypotheses , but of different ways of looking at the same problem , i.e. when one party proposes not merely a different answer , but one which the other party considers to be impermissible or ‘ unthinkable ’ . |
| 21 | This word embraces multifarious ways of looking into the future , consciously or unconsciously , generally enlisting the help of spirit beings . |