Example sentences of "[conj] looking at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a chair opposite sat Tom who was drinking tea and looking at a book . |
| 2 | I 've got to get some sleep , ’ the impresario said , eating a spoonful of caviar and looking at a column about grosses in Variety . |
| 3 | For actually glancing down and looking at a clock |
| 4 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 5 | for example , a production manager may be stuck about ideas on how to improve factory efficiency but looking at a potted plant on the desk might suggest an improved working environment or employees being given more wages ( which may be seen as the equivalent of plant food ) . |
| 6 | For example , we might draw the inference that a child who is able to name a picture of a boat , while looking at a picture book with her mother , will be able to name it on any other occasion ; the child ‘ knows the meaning of the word boat ’ . |
| 7 | I was reminded of this , fresh as I was from reading some of the slanging that made the Bermondsey bye-election so appealing , when looking at a joint release from six trades unions . |
| 8 | Most people feel chilly instinctively when looking at a picture like this even though the photograph itself is obviously not cold . |
| 9 | When looking at a bag with this design make sure there 's enough room for your feet without compressing the filling . |
| 10 | As competent users of English , it is not easy for us , when looking at a piece of discourse which we understand , to imagine how it appears to the language learner . |
| 11 | When looking at a narrative design , the possibilities of obtaining different perspectives are especially significant : it is precisely the lack of a wide border which would have made the story of the Dido and Aeneas mosaic , from Low Ham , Som. , so hard to follow . |
| 12 | This is satisfactory enough , though it is often necessary to perch the tripod on top of a platform or a solid table , as otherwise you will have to be something of a contortionist when looking at an object high in the sky ( incidentally , the same is true of a small refracting telescope ) . |