Example sentences of "that they look [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The trouble with all panspermic theories is that they look to outer space , yet we have no particular reason to believe that life could not have emerged right here on our own world .
2 No surprise , then , that they look to the United States with such extravagant hope .
3 Visitor pressure and the often mindless or downright destructive behaviour of some of the people who come to this area have annoyed some farmers so much that they look on walkers as just another kind of vermin — and there are many times when I can sympathise with this attitude completely .
4 Government ministers seem to think that they look at a pile of brochures .
5 She had suggested that they look at Van Gogh together , setting up another form of repetition , deliberate , contrived and aesthetic .
6 Could we just er by following that up Chairman , suggest that they , that they look at p the provision of double yellow lines around the kerb , around those kerbs that go from lower Road into Road , because it 's on that corner that you get the , the van parked which is causing the visibility problems .
7 I suggest to those who talk of regional banding that they look at the protection that the banding system will offer to people living in London and the south-east .
8 Can I just finally say that the whole import of the orders is to ensure that they look at the criteria of authorisation , they are concerned with the authorisation of firms which take public deposits and investments and when that is brought into question , when there is evidence to suggest that those criteria are not being adequately med it must be right to impose a non costly duty on the auditors to bring that about , that is what these orders do tonight , I think they 're an extremely welcome addition to the stable of measures of regulation and they will improve materially depositor protection .
9 But the fact you are claiming income support is a factor that they look at .
10 Rumour and gossip will spread and the employer may well find key staff and others so unsettled that they look for and find other jobs .
11 Numbers of young women have told me that they look upon life in quite a different light now that they learn that nature has not been so cruel to them , as to give them but the choice of a married life , in which probably all the highest aims of life must be sacrificed , and the wife reduced to the level of a breeding animal , or a life of celibacy .
12 But he can see from their eyes that they look upon him now as someone who will transcend the collective and desert it .
13 In fact , these two warts are so enlarged that they look like long swellings behind the animal 's eyes , covered with pores through which the poison seeps .
14 Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ .
15 People can write words so that they look like other words , or do n't look like any word at all , so the correct word can only be found from the surrounding words in context .
16 All flies possess these little structures but they are particularly noticeable in the crane flies , the daddy-long-legs , in which the knobs are placed on the ends of stalks so that they look like the heads of drumsticks .
17 Caterpillars of geometrid moths not only resemble twigs in the colour and texture of their skin , but they grasp a thin branch with their hind claspers and hold themselves up at an angle so that they look like twigs .
18 These are played by four quadruple amputee performers , one a woman , so that they look like genuine robots , not ‘ men in suits ’ , yet are believable as characters .
19 They grow in clusters in woods and gardens and there are sometimes so many that they look like one huge blue carpet .
20 Elsewhere colours are handled with such delicacy that they look like light projected over the surface , a supposition which is emphatically contradicted by the physical texture of the paint .
21 One trader might try to " cash in " on the goodwill and reputation of another trader by dressing up his goods in such a way that they look like those of that other trader .
22 There are lots of boys running a portable shoe-cleaning business in their summer holidays in the park , and about five of them besieged me , tried out their broken English , and shone my 18-year-old Hungarian sandals so that they look like new .
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