Example sentences of "looking at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone who wants to act professionally should try to see as much drama as they possibly can — and this means in the broadest sense , watching television , cinema , visiting the theatre and looking at the actor 's work carefully and analytically . |
| 2 | ‘ He was looking at the marks of a ladder just under her window . |
| 3 | Perhaps the work-load is high at the time , looking at the map and the ground for possible clues as to where they are , looking for signs of possible lift to climb in , together with all the other little worries involved in a field landing . |
| 4 | A mile or so along the sand , she sat on a rock , looking at the grey/indigo streak of Italian coastline . |
| 5 | Over his shoulder she was looking at the derelict house . |
| 6 | Sucking his torn finger-end , he went into the cell next his own and sat on the floor , his back against the wall , looking at the scraps of scratched lettering on the distemper opposite him . |
| 7 | ‘ Looking at the food . ’ |
| 8 | She circled back , stopping at Cleopatra 's Needle , leaning over , looking at the river . |
| 9 | English Hops began their development of hop oils by looking at the ‘ dry hopping ’ end of the brewing process , when a handful of whole or pellet hops are added to casks of beer . |
| 10 | The very considerable size of this achievement can be appreciated by looking at the hydrostatic pressure undersea cables may have to endure — up to 4t/in2 , at a depth of three miles . |
| 11 | But there are other ways of looking at the question . |
| 12 | Some of these claims can be considered , and either allowed or disallowed , only by looking at the work as a whole ; others can be at least understood after reading only a few lines : |
| 13 | This was not at all unreasonable but , looking at the full deal , you can see that Three No-Trumps would have been easy . |
| 14 | The Department of the Environment said it was looking at the legal position of local authorities wanting to control parties . |
| 15 | There was also a suggestion that the bidder may be a financial buyer , looking at the company as an investment rather than an addition to existing operations . |
| 16 | The only way to view the Chancellor was by scrambling through the neighbouring graveyard and looking at the house across a row of tombstones . |
| 17 | I replaced the blanket over his head and stood for a few moments looking at the bodies in their neat little rows . |
| 18 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |
| 19 | I remember looking at the back of Don 's anorak and seeing Made in England and thinking , I wish I was back there . ’ |
| 20 | Shown here is the Queen Mother looking at the display relating to Frank Griffiths , the sole survivor of a Halifax that was shot down on a supply mission , and who was successfully hidden by the local Resistance . |
| 21 | However , without for the moment looking at the two halves separately , I imagine everyone would be prepared to accept the proposition in theory . |
| 22 | I 'm looking at the framed portraits of the stars : Anna Neagle , Liz Taylor , Dirk Bogarde , hand coloured like the photographs that Mr Fuller tints , an elderly artist who lives across the road from my grandparents . |
| 23 | Its significance can be gauged in part by looking at the range of objections to the theatre as a place which subverted metaphysical fixity . |
| 24 | And looking at the Palestinian revolution ‘ trom a viewpoint higher than my own ’ he regards it as ultimately a revolt reaching to the limits of Islam , a ‘ calling for a revision , probably even a rejection , of a theology as soporific as a Breton cradle ’ ( p. 88 ) . |
| 25 | Looking at the question from an economic standpoint , the key justification for a continued British presence in the Middle East was access to oil . |
| 26 | We are only fifty million people in this country and if you 're going to run a decent-size business at all , you need to be looking at the horizon . |
| 27 | After a while Moran tired of looking at the newspapers and went outside though it was almost night . |
| 28 | Setting aside this particular match and looking at the idea on a broader basis , I see a rough ride ahead if the idea spreads . |
| 29 | These histories , it was believed , could be constructed by looking at the available information on primitive peoples , past and present , whether from archaeological remains , from classical accounts of early institutions , such as those given by Tacitus concerning the German tribes of Roman times , or early Greece and Rome themselves , or , most importantly , from the reports of travellers , explorers , colonists and missionaries , describing contemporary primitives . |
| 30 | In this way of looking at the economy , wages seem to be determined by forces as inevitable as mathematics , and if wages were low this was no doubt unfortunate , but there was nothing anybody could do about it , any more than it would be possible to change the laws of gravity . |