Example sentences of "[adv] looking [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It 's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4 , 6b .
2 We can not tell which it was by merely looking at the facts ; we have to ask what his purpose actually was .
3 She was the epitome of fashionable glamour and , merely looking at her , Constance felt swamped .
4 While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so .
5 Merely looking at the final stage of supply can obscure the full range of options open to a particular firm in its choice of serving foreign markets .
6 Merely looking at one 's watch and giving the right time is usually enough to prevent the completely accurate recall of an unfamiliar telephone number .
7 Er and therefore it looks at erm the indirect impact of development erm and it 's it 's more sophisticated one might say than merely looking at the quality of the land .
8 Merely looking for a person is not an assault : Arobieke [ 1988 ] Crim LR 314 ( CA ) .
9 and that the learning situation itself needs to be examined for its possible contribution to children 's learning difficulties , instead of merely looking in the child for causes .
10 If you trust somebody okay you 're quite open to them , they 're quite open to you if you co-operate you 're flexible , you 're being flexible and you like to work together and what happens is is if you 've got low trust and low co-operation with somebody well what you 've got is really everybody both people or everybody involved being defensive constantly being def defensive , if you do n't trust somebody and you know you 're not co-operative you 're constantly looking over your back , what are they doing are they doing that 's gon na mess something up you know what are they trying to do now .
11 Anxiously , he spent the days watching and waiting , constantly looking down the road , longing for his return .
12 So , while McDonald 's is powerfully committed to its core values , it is constantly looking beyond the practices that made it successful in order to explore new opportunities .
13 Today 's martial artists are constantly looking at other forms of combat technique in order to broaden and improve their own fighting methods .
14 Catering establishments of all types are constantly looking at ways of saving energy without reducing performance and there are a number of areas within the kitchen where such savings can be made .
15 In terms of safety we are constantly looking at it and if we can learn anything at all we 'll put whatever procedures we can in place .
16 In nature small fish are constantly looking for food , and will eat small amounts whenever they find them .
17 Despite these finds , competition in the modelling business gets tougher every year , and agencies are constantly looking for new talent .
18 They are constantly looking for these changes , especially in situations which have previously been difficult .
19 As in any business , the successful direct marketing service provider is constantly looking for ways to improve the systems employed , and thus improve the volume of high quality response which the marketer can achieve from his/her campaigns .
20 AMARC 's current research group is constantly looking for specific applications within the world of medicine which would benefit from automation .
21 We are therefore constantly looking for ways both to reduce the amount of waste we produce and to upgrade that which remains .
22 As well as spending a great deal of time servicing existing customers we are constantly looking for new opportunities in developing markets around the world .
23 Thus Anderson may have been more prophetic than was realized at the time ( Earley 1988:61 ) : Parents are basically looking for reassurance about their children 's schools and teachers .
24 If you 've got a question , shout , shout out to start you on and that start up encourages cos it so often happens yeah bop bop bop bop bop and somebody is still basically looking for their rucksack while all the rest are up the , half way up the mountain .
25 that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale
26 He was gloomily looking at his registration book on Tuesday morning .
27 Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time .
28 It 's important to him that everyone knows he is the champion , that he is better than anyone else and not necessarily looking for easy pay days .
29 We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service .
30 He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman .
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