Example sentences of "look [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent . |
| 2 | It looks like some kind of mollusc , but no mollusc fits easily into this pattern of growth ; various people have suggested it might be some kind of snail , or perhaps a monoplacophoran ( see p. 76 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ It looks like some kind of begging-letter . |
| 4 | The distribution of life expectancy across countries is not symmetrical : the lower half of the distribution is more spread out than the upper half ( figure 11.7 ) ; many countries are pushing up against what looks like some kind of a ceiling of around seventy-seven years , while some poorer countries trail down in the forties and two countries ( Sierra Leone and Guinea ) even and leaf display of raw data register a staggering thirty-eight years . |
| 5 | ‘ Looks like some kind of a machine , ’ he admitted , fumbling for levers without taking his eyes off the screen . |
| 6 | Pat 's all right , look at him , he looks like some sort of Irish hero , and he 's writing yards of poetry . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It certainly looks like some sort of allergy or chemical reaction , ’ he said . |
| 8 | A line of pikemen must have looked like some kind of rampaging porcupine . ’ |
| 9 | His way into the sport was typical of the drivers of his generation : not having any money of his own , and his parents being both unwilling and unable to finance a career on which they must have looked with some distaste , Hunt had to start where he could : in the event , with a stripped-down Mini in which he learned the rudiments of the sport . |
| 10 | Faldo , with his first round of 74 , had also looked in some danger . |
| 11 | The Channel Tunnel Research Unit has looked in some detail at the likely impact of the Tunnel and rail infrastructure improvements on European integration and the development of particular regions . |
| 12 | Annex A ( reprinted with minor amendments as Annex A to Circular 15/84 ) looks in some detail at housing land availability in the countryside and elsewhere . |
| 13 | The book then looks in some detail at the Reagan energy plan , condemning it as ‘ unbearably expensive , socially disruptive , and needlessly damaging to the long-term national interest ’ . |
| 14 | She looks in some detail at the process by which the counter-revolutionary attack on women 's liberation took place . |
| 15 | The following section looks in some detail at its parameters . |
| 16 | Their results can be seen in Demonstrating Successful Care in the Community which describes all twenty-eight projects and looks in some detail at five of them . |
| 17 | Actually , I was surprised when looking through some book a couple of years ago to find that players like Gray played relatively few game per season , often being injured . |
| 18 | And somehow his hurt had brought him back here , looking for some innocence long since gone from him , looking for some boyhood simplicity to answer the anguish within him , to make it go away . |
| 19 | LOOKING FOR SOME PEACE AND QUIET AWAY FROM THE PEAK DISTRICT HORDES ? |
| 20 | Unix System Labs Inc reportedly had a meeting with SunSelect last week : thinking is they 're looking for some help speeding up their PC emulation . |
| 21 | For the next hour the fairground gradually filled with people , mainly families with young children or teenagers who had become bored with their tour round the factory and were looking for some excitement . |
| 22 | The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers . |
| 23 | I was looking for some short-cut to getting a complete description of who you are . |
| 24 | They 're looking for some purpose for it all and they ca n't find it . ’ |
| 25 | In looking for some test of their hypothesis , scientists have tried two approaches . |
| 26 | Even as Rachel flitted before us down passageways and galleries , I could feel other presences , as if ghosts hiding in the shadows watched her pass then trailed behind us , looking for some weakness they could exploit . |
| 27 | So they 're looking for some money to finance a research fellow at the Hospital . |
| 28 | He could start thinking he 's a poached egg and wander off looking for some toast to sit on . ’ |
| 29 | There were racetrack express buses , I found , going from the city to the Downs , so I went on one at about six o'clock and strolled around at ground level looking for some way of conveying to Bill Baudelaire the water samples which were now individually wrapped inside the nondescript plastic carrier . |
| 30 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |