Example sentences of "when look at " in BNC.

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1 ARGUMENTS against electoral reform look rather threadbare when looked at against the reality that our constitution has already failed to prevent ideologies of the extreme Right and Left from seizing power at both local and national levels .
2 We must look at flowers with a new intensity and from different angles for the flowers when looked at thus can themselves inspire the observer .
3 So , when looked at from the point of view of total social production , Dept .
4 The reasonable conclusion is that one and the same thing is ‘ called a sensation when considered merely in itself , and a quality when looked at in relation to any one of the numerous objects , the presence of which to our organs excites in our minds that among various other sensations or feelings .
5 An abacus uses human gall-stones on taut human sinew , the rocking horse has a semi-skeletal head , a set of wooden toy soldiers all have subtle mutations when looked at for a second time , and so on .
6 The metropolitan areas ( both GLC and MCCs ) consisted of strong boroughs or districts and relatively weak strategic authorities when looked at in terms of the services provided .
7 The relatively low cost of long distance inter-city bus services , combined with their comfort and strict passenger control has , for instance , made them a highly competitive force when looked at from the viewpoint of older or economy conscious passengers .
8 The figures for railways might sound encouraging , but , when looked at in detail , they fall away sharply in the subsequent two years .
9 If I may anticipate a point which , I know from experience , the hon. Member for Oldham , West ( Mr. Meacher ) may in due course seek to make , those increases mean that , when looked at alongside the extra help that we have made available in the past four years through income-related benefits for the less well-off families with children , which will amount to some £600 million next year , total expenditure on help to families next year will be higher than if we had simply increased child benefit each year since 1987-88 .
10 There were no differences between the two groups for any sinister electrocardiographic abnormality , as defined earlier , when looked at either individually or in combination .
11 However , it should perhaps be made clear that for most people with schizophrenia , their brains appear completely normal as far as can be made out when looked at under the microscope .
12 The seeds of herbs may be dispersed by large mammals , which eat and pass plant material in bulk : many such seeds have up until recently been considered to exhibit merely ‘ gravity ’ dispersal , when looked at in isolation from the rest of the plant .
13 Even though critics may not be as learned as their art-historical colleagues , there is no good reason for their practised eyes to cloud over when looking at art of other periods .
14 Price recommends all caterers to not only determine the micron thickness when looking at silver-plated cutlery , but also to ask for this to be specified on the invoice .
15 For example , what goes on when looking at , say , a Matisse in an art gallery .
16 The DTI showed ‘ lack of a sufficiently rigorous and enquiring approach ’ when looking at the activities of the investment group .
17 Working with a graduate student , Andrew Himes , Dr Simpson decided he had overestimated the number of fat neutrinos , but that he still saw them , both when repeating his work on tritium and when looking at the beta decays of sulphur .
18 Mark , who worked at investment house Foreign & Colonial , evaluates all the ideas with the same attention to the bottom line he used when looking at applications to provide venture capital .
19 However , the case of R v South Glamorgan Appeals Committee ex parte Evans ( 1984 ) showed that when looking at individual claims for a school place , it was necessary for an appeal committee to determine first whether the admission of one further child would prejudice efficient education at the school ( with the onus on the LEA to show that it would ) : if they concluded that it would not , they would have to allow the appeal .
20 ( When looking at crime trends criminologists are usually hesitant about inferring objective worsening of problems on the basis of moral panics . )
21 No such clear-cut patterns emerge when looking at the substance of their preferences : whom they had chosen to comment on , and whether they regarded them favourably or unfavourably .
22 Finally , Bobo notes that the recent popularity of Black women 's writing is one of those extra-discursive factors which must be taken into account when looking at cultural practices such as The Color Purple .
23 One department is concerned with worldwide issues ; for example , when looking at the outlook for energy , it does not feel qualified to do this type of study itself .
24 Clearly , we are getting further and further away from the causes of delinquent behaviour , and it is perhaps wisest to think in terms of causal processes when looking at criminal behaviour .
25 The greatest advantage of infrared astronomy , however , comes when looking at objects well beyond the Solar System .
26 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 .
27 It is entirely possible that this mechanism does operate , and that the members of a herd do use these clues when looking at one another .
28 When looking at the paddle and arm positions the important points are as follows :
29 Perhaps it is inevitable , when looking at prehistoric sites , that attention has concentrated on artificial constructions , particularly dramatic ones like stone circles .
30 When looking at military applications of AI the only field likely to yield viable and practical results in the next few years is that of expert systems .
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