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Example sentences of "[conj] looking at " in BNC.

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1	All I wish to do here is to suggest that there are other ways of understanding or looking at extremes of penitential life which can suggest in them sources , not of neurotic repression but of freedom and self-ownership .
2	They never stopped eating or talking or looking at people performing .
3	Some of their happiest hours together were spent driving , or looking at cars , or simply in the huge garages at St-Cloud , where Grégoire would contentedly remove wheels , and then replace them , and Edouard would contentedly watch him .
4	Many books deal with women at work , perhaps focusing briefly on their dual role at work and home , or looking at housework , but not exploring the extent to which women work and contribute to the work process .
5	I I think erm , that it can be looked at to , without H R T or looking at it medically , because lots of the women at Dean Terrace , in fact have
6	If you are watching some highly developed dance form , or some elaborately staged drama , or listening to highly developed music , or looking at highly developed sculpture or painting , you have at least some given mode of access to each art .
7	His wife nodded at his side but continued to clean the pans without replying or looking at him .
8	If anyone starts talking about sex or looking at the Indian women , someone always says , ‘ Riddled with diseases I 'm sure . ’
9	Now you can see how easy it is with the numbers to make mistakes especially if you 're multiplying by tens or hundreds or thousands or looking at , trying to just look at a bit of it , oh that 's just , oh hang on is that seven or is that seventeen ?
10	Extending the curriculum to include a range of applications which more adequately than at present represents the kinds of human endeavour where mathematics is used would be another such change , with fewer examples involving ballistics and war , for instance , and more involving such activities as working with fabrics , designing appliances for the disabled or looking at the school canteen 's queuing problems .
11	If you can not afford the furniture or floorcovering you want , further trips to shops or markets , or looking at suppliers ' catalogues , should give you more inspiration .
12	When you are actually sort of writing er , say if you are , when you are doing your project or doing your work it 's not just sufficient to say always T ratio is greater than two , therefore , it 's statistically significant , you must calculate the er correct critical value you use , right , for th for each T ratio and also if you are looking at any diagnostics or looking at the significance of the regression which is an F statistic right you must give the five percent or ten percent whichever you choose .
13	Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully .
14	The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female .
15	The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female .
16	Now I mentioned that this was Chest Week and it 's the first time that the er Chest , Heart and Stroke Association have had a , a , a week specifically aimed at people with chest problems , or , or looking at chest problems .
17	Although looking at quilts is n't everyone 's idea of a great day out , organisers are keen to point out that it 's not a women only pastime .
18	An answer to this depends on a correct definition of human uniqueness rather than looking at those features Man shares with animals . ’
19	Mira , it seems , is walking in the landscape rather than looking at it from a height :
20	Thus the most influential sociologists researching on later life in the last thirty years have been first and foremost concerned with documenting poverty and need among the old , rather than looking at their present lives as a whole , or how they reached where they are now .
21	Her eyes were wide with sworls of silver and blue brighter than looking at the sun at its zenith in the longest day of summer .
22	I do not know what the hon. Gentleman means , but I regret that , as ever — and typically of Labour Members — the hon. Gentleman seems to glory in gloom and despondency in identifying the more negative aspects of things , rather than looking at the positive .
23	The government 's priority is to construct more coal and geothermal plants as soon as possible , rather than looking at energy efficiency and alternative strategies .
24	We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there .
25	Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent .
26	Rather than looking at the proposal we decided that it was so that 's what we did really and that 's why , if you have a look down there right , so all we 're doing then we 're working through the resources and allocating them room numbers erm and then when that 's done so that 's what we did for each of the little rooms .
27	He believed that the Scottish Secretary 's estimates were probably based on the operation of the system once it had bedded down rather than looking at initial assumptions .
28	It 's something very close to what I 'm saying erm and erm I 'm saying perhaps one thing in addition , which is that just as when we look into the future , which , as a historian , I 'm asked to do more often , I think , these days than looking at the past , but when we look into the future , we have different versions of what that future will be .
29	However , it was said that looking at the employee 's base was not the be-all and end-all .
30	But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it .