Example sentences of "be looking to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 2 | Several of our brightest chefs , often trained in French methods , are looking to the Mediterranean for inspiration . |
| 3 | The fear of Cardiff 's rivals is that , without the same resources , they can only lose in a transfer war , and some are looking to the Welsh Rugby Union for legislative salvation . |
| 4 | ‘ More and more people are looking to this kind of holiday — a bit of walking through spectacular landscapes , punctuated by train rides , ’ says Mark Livock , product manager |
| 5 | The pair are looking to businesses and local traders in the areas they are running through to offer support , either by making direct or sponsored cash contributions , or by donating equipment . |
| 6 | Presently , we are looking to the completion of the scheme , either as flats or possibly as a small hotel or restaurant . |
| 7 | for no one concerned with education could deny that , in teaching , teachers are looking to the future of the child . |
| 8 | To some it will be an urban environment that they are looking to and within that concept will be the requirement for clean streets , no noise and fumes from traffic , no aircraft noise , access to local parks or open spaces , etc . |
| 9 | Many organisations in fact are overwhelmed by a superabundance of communications and some are looking to computerisation to solve some of the problems created by information bombardment . |
| 10 | Experimentalists , on the other hand , are excited by the demonstration of electron motion under previously hypothetical conditions , and are looking to other devices where the same effects can appear in less stringent experimental circumstances . |
| 11 | THE WORLD 'S leading space explorers are looking to Europe for help in probing new corners of the Solar System over the next two decades . |
| 12 | Governments around the western world are looking to some of these technical ideas to provide a form of long-term insurance against problems with metals supplies . |
| 13 | Now that help is urgently needed to stem the threatened spread of AIDS , some governments are looking to the churches to put forward a limiting view of sex . |
| 14 | Countless numbers of people are looking to their leaders and representatives to take bold decisions now — and not to put off these critical decisions that will ultimately cause our grandchildren to curse us . |
| 15 | ‘ Britain 's influence is much weaker and countries are looking to Germany for a lead , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Few venture capitalists feel that the UK equity market has the effervescence to be able to generate the level of returns seen in the past , and so are looking to continental buyers to supply the exit opportunities for cleanly-structured , discrete , well-managed UK companies . |
| 17 | This is particularly bad in London and , as a result , dissatisfied clients are looking to the merits of regionally-based firms . |
| 18 | SOCCER : Harwich and Parkeston manager Martin Head is currently thinking over his future with the Jewson League club , which suggests he will have left by the start of next season.Head says , ‘ Both the club and myself are looking to next season and we are in the middle of talks . |
| 19 | We have great ambitions for the club and are looking to greater heights . ’ |
| 20 | In the meantime , Mallett have cut costs and are looking to turnover of £1.2 million per month to haul themselves back towards profitability . |
| 21 | Although object technology is ‘ a major technical change to the system , ’ Bourne says that SunSoft 's approach is very different from other efforts such as the IBM-Apple Computer Inc Taligent venture or Microsoft Corp 's Cairo because they are looking to reusability and faster time to market for applications as an end result . |
| 22 | This now means that many institutions no longer have the business and technological skills in-house to take on large systems integration projects , and are looking to external providers to save them money on services and hardware . |
| 23 | It can not really be that the way things are looking to me now is pink , since I could be wrong about whether that way is pink or not . |
| 24 | ‘ We are looking to the government for a fundamental change in attitudes towards training . ’ |
| 25 | But after 40 years of post-war public sector housing there is now evidence of widespread rejection , and some community groups are looking to the promise of community architecture ( Wates and Knevitt , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | Women are looking to a new generation of gutsy , sexy heroines . |
| 27 | ‘ The household priests are looking to Osiris for guidance . |
| 28 | Lenders are looking to the level of profits now seen rather than on the prospect of ‘ jam tomorrow ’ . |
| 29 | Will he bear in mind the fact that many eastern European countries are looking to this country as a possible dumping ground and they produce their goods with wages of about 20p an hour ? |
| 30 | ‘ Do not return here at three in the morning with a bunch of new-found friends who are looking to ‘ party ’ . ’ |