Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] looking at " in BNC.

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1 But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it .
2 Leading on from that , we fixed a meeting for this year aimed at getting to know each other better and looking at how to prepare together the ecumenical service .
3 Once I was inside and looking at the space I had and the needs I had identified , I saw my task differently from the people who had come out of production , many of whom , whether men or women , continued to want to master/ mistressmind productions themselves as Executive Producer .
4 An answer to this depends on a correct definition of human uniqueness rather than looking at those features Man shares with animals . ’
5 Mira , it seems , is walking in the landscape rather than looking at it from a height :
6 Thus the most influential sociologists researching on later life in the last thirty years have been first and foremost concerned with documenting poverty and need among the old , rather than looking at their present lives as a whole , or how they reached where they are now .
7 I do not know what the hon. Gentleman means , but I regret that , as ever — and typically of Labour Members — the hon. Gentleman seems to glory in gloom and despondency in identifying the more negative aspects of things , rather than looking at the positive .
8 The government 's priority is to construct more coal and geothermal plants as soon as possible , rather than looking at energy efficiency and alternative strategies .
9 We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there .
10 Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent .
11 Rather than looking at the proposal we decided that it was so that 's what we did really and that 's why , if you have a look down there right , so all we 're doing then we 're working through the resources and allocating them room numbers erm and then when that 's done so that 's what we did for each of the little rooms .
12 He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions .
13 ‘ Luke will , ’ Anna said unfairly , turning away and looking at her beautifully dug earth , and thinking how much she would just like to lie down on it and sleep .
14 But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed .
15 That 's an area of course that we would wish to increase eventually but looking at the protected figures , a large increase in the primary schools delegated budgets this year could result in , in a de facto cut to the secondary schools next year .
16 This involves discussing how the client could respond differently and looking at specific verbal and non-verbal characteristics of an assertive response .
17 At other times , mostly when he smiled in that particular way of Tyler 's , leaning his head sideways and looking at her with incredible love in his sparkling green eyes , she found it unbelievably painful .
18 ‘ We 're building here and looking at buying , ’ added Keegan .
19 Right has the board consider giving this place I mean I I understand the the trouble with money etc but looking at making this place more inviting , at all ?
20 As well as being appropriately dressed you should also be aware that you may have been noted even while looking at the agency 's window display .
21 Ben waved to the child , and when she approached them she exclaimed loudly while looking at Aggie , ‘ Oh , you are dressed !
22 The conference will be following up the training programmes discussed at the Brough 90 meeting as well as looking at new proposals for courses and other aspects of woodturning training .
23 In Durham , Brian Roberts has been studying village plans and has now extended his research to other northern counties , as well as looking at England 's village plans generally .
24 It will also examine the structure and economics of the conversion business and the nature of the conversion process itself as well as looking at local authority planning policy on conversions and the problems conversion may generate .
25 The statistical resemblance is measured by comparing mean values and ranges of actual and simulated sequences , as well as looking at the distribution of runs of wet or dry days .
26 you could median split them at whatever the medium was and then you 've got two groups to compare erm because it usually looks quite nice if you 've got something comparative as well as looking at the average sort of , you know , pattern of responses on the questionnaire .
27 ‘ We 'll be counting seals and looking at reindeer as well as looking at affects on the environment .
28 Because operations remain vulnerable to low levels of economic growth in Shell 's main markets and also because of sluggish oil prices , the company will continue to put emphasis on the cost-effectiveness of its activities in the North Sea and elsewhere , as well as looking at ways of rationalising its portfolio of assets to maintain profitability .
29 Other clues to a general theory of addiction have led researchers to focus on the dopamine system — even when looking at drugs which do not affect dopamine receptors .
30 Most people feel chilly instinctively when looking at a picture like this even though the photograph itself is obviously not cold .
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