Example sentences of "[pron] look at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle .
2 When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought .
3 I look at the dark house in front of me and the screens of tall shrubs and young trees on either side concealing the two neighbouring villas .
4 During the spring , I look at the new beech leaves .
5 Sometimes I look at the other women , see one with a baby on her knee , then a little child runs up and tells her something that makes her laugh …
6 Now I look at the confident sexual swagger of young men with more than a faint envy .
7 Quickly , I look at the real Philip .
8 I look at the short-term programme and er see , yeah .
9 For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys .
10 ‘ One week I look at the various uses of manure , another , say , a flat cap that can improve your golf swing or the cup and spoon for people with moustaches . ’
11 I look at the knackered tubes .
12 ‘ As I look at the shabby , commercialised and demoralised society in which I write I am more convinced than ever that the political analysis on which I was brought up was right .
13 So how about if I look at the six monthly saving ,
14 I look at the first enjoyed it
15 When I look at the European Community I see foreign policy and internal security pillars and ask myself how well the Government have been able to keep them purely intergovernmental and how many commitments we are making that will damage British interests in the future .
16 I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg .
17 I look at the luminous hands of the clock .
18 When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’
19 I 'm in bed reading , so I look at the little security system we have , look at the screen — I do n't know this chap , he 's obviously drunk , and obviously ex-public school .
20 ‘ We must hold our nerve , ’ Malik was saying , ‘ and have someone look at the damn manuscript .
21 Corporate audits , which look at a complete business and measure it against legislation and company environmental policy .
22 When you look at a complex sponge skeleton such as that made of silica spicules which is known as Venus ' Flower Basket , the imagination is baffled .
23 The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon .
24 If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving .
25 But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ !
26 If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices
27 Wittgenstein says ( 332 ) : ‘ Do not believe that you have the concept of colour within you because you look at a coloured object — however you look ’ and ( 659 ) ‘ But when I say ‘ It tastes exactly like sugar ’ , in an important sense no remembering takes place .
28 If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies .
29 You look at a so-called adult world , ’ she said , ‘ and people just behave ridiculously .
30 If you look at an American kit for say , £10,000 to £14,000 , which then requires in excess of 500 hours of sweat equity , the Chevron does n't look bad value after all .
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