Example sentences of "be looking at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy McGregor , a member of the legislative council , said , ‘ If we did not have to depend on China we would be looking at a most marvellous future . ’ |
| 2 | It 's them you need to be looking at . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They will be looking at frontier theology and practice . |
| 5 | The mistakes made in the manufacture of the mirror , which is as smooth as could be desired but the wrong shape , have stopped it from seeing many of the faint objects it should be looking at . |
| 6 | Investors provide the cash expecting high returns ; to get the money , a firm must be looking at pretty profitable investment opportunities . |
| 7 | He caught my astonished stare , and paused as he was jotting down the orders , glancing down at himself in apparent wonder at what I could be looking at . |
| 8 | Fred and Sophy , though they were only two and three years younger , and though they had seen mamma in her coffin , seemed to themselves to be looking at some strange show . |
| 9 | Nobody 's going to be looking at you , are they ? ’ |
| 10 | Whether such attachments are possible will depend very much on how much help and support he or she has received whilst going through the process of loss ( which we will be looking at later ) . |
| 11 | In this chapter we shall be looking at how this particular group of people might view and understand what is being offered to them by the church at the time of a major bereavement . |
| 12 | We shall be looking at the process of registering a death in chapter 11 . |
| 13 | He thought all the men there would be looking at me , and he would n't go out with me in it . |
| 14 | I would never try on something revealing like a swimming costume in a communal changing room , because when I was bigger I 'd be thinking everyone would be looking at the bulgy bits thinking how fat I was ( well , this is what I thought after I found out what my friends had been saying ) , and now I would feel too self-conscious because other girls would be thinking how skinny I look . |
| 15 | What would I be looking at it with ? |
| 16 | ‘ It may seem a little odd for prison staff to be looking at their prisoners as customers , but they are the direct consumers of our service , ’ explained Mr Stephen Twinn , prison director , who spent 23 years in the public sector at various grades of prison governor . |
| 17 | We will be looking at the new MPs to see if the numbers can be further increased . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Neither do I. We 'll be looking at one or two players in the morning and pick a side then . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll be looking at all sorts of music , from liturgical chants to Fiddler on the Roof stuff and Hassidic Rock . ’ |
| 20 | They tend to be brittle , competitive and over-obsessed with their looks and who might be looking at them . |
| 21 | EC commission sources said that Sir Leon Brittan , competition commissioner , would be looking at the deal to see if Air France was breaking EC rules , in so tightening its grip on short-haul air services within mainland Europe . |
| 22 | Andrew Holden , joint secretary of the Northern Examining Association , said : ‘ We will be looking at the position and seeing whether we think it is worthwhile to offer a similar scheme or whether we would prefer to cut the general level of fees so that we are competing on even terms . ’ |
| 23 | Drivers will be looking at the turbo variants , as their performance is more equivalent to petrol versions . ’ |
| 24 | I will therefore be looking at the range of measures on offer to ensure that as we come out of the recession they offer unemployed people practical and effective help in getting back to work . ’ |
| 25 | Part of the ACOST review is devoted to what it should itself be looking at . |
| 26 | A goalkeeper does not ‘ perform ’ his function in its theatrical sense , only in the sociological usage of ‘ perform ’ which we shall be looking at further in the next chapter . |
| 27 | Later we shall be looking at ways in which a teacher might deal with this problem . |
| 28 | Over the next few days I shall be looking at the Activity Book and Video Guide again in detail with our designer Phil Hall and then , with the stills from Michael Keefe , shall be able to send you a revised schedule . |
| 29 | But if I was studying the daisy family here , I 'd be looking at plants from the size of daisies as we know them , to plants the size of trees . |
| 30 | ‘ What in God 's name do ye wantta be looking at tings like that for ? |