Example sentences of "they [vb mod] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little wonder then that those who seek peace ( that is the absence of violence ) between nations as well as within them should look to law as a means of regulating and reducing the international use of force . |
| 2 | While many tests may have high face validity — that is , they may look as if they measure a particular linguistic ability — this is not a sufficient justification for using test data as a basis for clinical or educational decision-making . |
| 3 | They may look to parts of the tradition which are less inimical to them , for example stories that tell of the lives of women . |
| 4 | They may look at you and say , ‘ What is the matter ? |
| 5 | And I would urge the panel to send out their proposed leaflet to the ministers in various areas where the educational standards are not very high that they may look at them and put forward suggestions so that the leaflet that eventually comes out will be understood by the whole of our people and not just by the most educated . |
| 6 | Before people talk of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals , they ought to look at the map and understand what they are saying . |
| 7 | Roland thought they ought to look for somewhere else , but held back from proposing it , because he was not the breadwinner , and because he did n't want to do anything so decisive , in terms of himself and Val . |
| 8 | They ought to look in their own back yard first ! ! ! ! ! |
| 9 | At a recent ceremony to reward companies on export achievement , one speaker reminded manufacturers that they must look beyond the home-market to sell their goods . |
| 10 | It is mainly to adult adventure stones that they must look for the romantic and chivalric manifestations of love towards which they reach in adolescence ; such feelings are by convention regarded as unseemly and unsuitable in books written specifically for the young . |
| 11 | Then before each row of the circular rows , they must look at the side lever of the main carriage that is nearest the knitting . |
| 12 | Now that Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland have their independence back , they must look after their security for themselves . |
| 13 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 14 | Always to looks — and they must look like prizes — |
| 15 | He believes , or he chooses to believe , that in Chicago or somewhere else there were readers of Poetry magazine in 1918 who zealously and in all seriousness wanted to know what French poets of that time they might profitably read , and what in the broadest terms they should look for in each of them . |
| 16 | He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car . |
| 17 | In all sex offence cases juries are warned that that it is ‘ dangerous ’ to accept the word of the alleged victim alone and that they should look for corroboration . |
| 18 | It has spent most of its 37 years counselling university graduates about where they should look for their first jobs . |
| 19 | ‘ About schools , no doubt , they know something-perhaps they have schedules and inventories that tell them in wearisome detail what they should look for in the structure , the physical fabric . |
| 20 | ‘ To do so they should look at the yield of the shares and the strength of the company 's management , ’ he said . |
| 21 | On the other hand , if theorists adopt a particular conception , then they should look at the way that contemporary social representations have developed their particular qualities through argument and how , in turn , these representations set the agenda for further argumentation . |
| 22 | Even the chairman of the National Westminster bank has conceded that they should look at that issue . |
| 23 | They should look at the Europe that will exist in five or 10 years ' time , at a Community with 18 or 20 members and perhaps even more , and at the interests that we have in common — security , defence , foreign policy , the environment , prosperity and peace in the world . |
| 24 | The world-renowned store in London 's Knightsbridge has issued guidelines to its 3,500 staff on how they should look at work , it was disclosed yesterday . |
| 25 | Lest they should look on vanities . ’ |
| 26 | But skipper Mark Wright believes they should look on the bright side of the draws at Ipswich and Leeds — despite throwing away a win in each game . |
| 27 | ‘ They 'll look at one of our ads and say , ‘ Oh we do n't like it . |
| 28 | Disguise or not , if we 're together they 'll look at us harder . ’ |
| 29 | Exactly and once you get that appointment on the phone that you wanted , erm , they 'll look at the day , you 'll take it regardless . |
| 30 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |