Example sentences of "[was/were] to look [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He not only attacks the SEC for being politically grounded , suggesting that the SEC 's limited resources are being focused on those least in favour with the enforcement agency , but by adopting the Stigler ‘ interest theory ’ of regulation , he argues that if one were to look for the supporters of anti-insider dealing provisions , one would find that it is neither society nor the markets , but the SEC itself . |
| 2 | Pius XI had made it clear in 1930 , subsequent to the success of the Vatican-Italian Concordat of 1929 , that good sons of the church with political power were to look to the church itself for guidance in their statesmanship : |
| 3 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 4 | No , we were to look at the houses round the small port , and at their inhabitants . |
| 5 | They were to look at the sculpture of Michelangelo , and the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel . |
| 6 | If we were to look at the balance sheets of these other banks , we should find that their customers ' deposits had increased and that this increase was matched on the asset side by an increase in their operational balances at the Bank of England . |
| 7 | His special trick was to look at the floor a lot . |
| 8 | The first of these was to look at the school with a wider concept of resources than that with which the library project was concerned , and the second was to feed into the library committee a relatively independent group 's view of appropriate resource proposals . |
| 9 | A starting point for this exercise was to look at the courses due for validation or review in 1993 . |
| 10 | The next phase of the study was to look at the quality of these ponds in terms of the numbers of species of animals and plants they support , the water chemistry and the surrounding land use of each pond or loch . |
| 11 | Its brief , according to a resolution unanimously agreed at the UN Security Council on March 17 , was to look at the requirements for a future peacekeeping operation and to create " mechanisms to ensure humanitarian aid can get through unhindered " . |
| 12 | Brittan also said in early December that he was to look into the UK government 's award of some pounds 38,000,000 of secret financial inducements to British Aerospace , at the time of its purchase of the Rover car group in September 1988 . |
| 13 | The solution adopted in both cases was to look to the transaction the parties to which typically carried on business in different States and to ignore the transaction which in the typical case was domestic . |
| 14 | Thus , for example , the unanimous response of the EEC 's governments and institutions to the Danish referendum in July 1992 was to look for a way to ‘ accommodate ’ the Danish Government , to bring the Danes back on board ’ . |
| 15 | If the Club was to look for a return on its money , as any other investing institution would , the criteria for that return would be two fold ; a boom in the popularity of tennis at grass roots level and/or impressive results at international level . |
| 16 | The British could only watch and hope , yet at the same time they provoked some American complaints that their instinctive reaction in an emergency was to look for a compromise . |
| 17 | HWIM 's solution was to look for a number of best-scoring seed words bottom-up and then to predict possible extensions ( words or word classes ) at either end of the seed word . |
| 18 | Tug 's first reaction was to look towards the Woman . |
| 19 | Women , whose responsibility it was to look after the family budget , were notoriously reluctant to incur the additional expense of a doctor 's bill on their own account . |
| 20 | In theory , Emerson 's brother Wilson Jr , or Wilsinho , was to look after the team 's administration and sponsorship . |