Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] the search for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for a complete grammar of English has been likened to the search for the Holy Grail ( Jensen & Heidorn , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | Delegates were informed that an encouraging number of responses had already been received to the search for sponsoring organisations , and there was every prospect that the chair would be established in 1992 . |
| 3 | As different layers are added sequentially we see how the proportion of available land shrinks ( Pl. 10.3 ) ; for instance , when geological criteria are set in the search for a deep repository , 25 per cent of land area remains and the addition of the population density layer reduces this to 24 per cent . |
| 4 | These three premises can be regarded as together forming a possible new creed to be used in the search for a new meaning to the word ‘ god ’ , and hence for a new religion . |
| 5 | It may be argued , however , that the lack of success experienced by the UK in the 1980s with its attempts to control the money supply growth rate was due to special factors and should not be employed against the search for ways of formulating an effective monetary policy at the national level . |
| 6 | Here the problem is less difficult than the estimation of absolute figures , because further kinds of evidence can be employed in the search for an answer . |
| 7 | Violent and peaceful social interaction is not to be understood through the search for a thing called ‘ aggression ’ , but through the sensitive and detailed explication of the values and meanings that embody and shape behaviour in different social settings . |
| 8 | In current conditions it is likely to be displaced by the search for arrangements to resolve the immediate destabilising conflict around Kampuchea . |
| 9 | The emphasis on the exclusion of outside powers from Southeast Asia could also be linked to the search for a comprehensive political settlement of the Kampuchean dispute , which would enmesh Indo-China into the arrangement reached . |
| 10 | Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements . |
| 11 | Although much effort has been expended in the search for ‘ crucial ’ experiments that would support one of these exaplanations at the expense of the other , Tetlock and Manstead ( Psychological Review , 1985 ) have shown that none of six methodological strategies adopted to date is capable of yielding such decisive evidence . |
| 12 | When the mood is low , accusations are hurled in the search for a scapegoat for a problem that nobody can rationalise . |
| 13 | Each case was also evaluated and graded for 23 individual histological features ( Table IV ) , mostly those considered useful in the differential diagnosis of ulcerative colitis and Crohn 's disease , but including others that were added in the search for histological features that might distinguish RP from controls . |
| 14 | The resources of many pharmaceutical firms were applied to the search for new moulds and other micro-organisms . |
| 15 | To be sure , we have all moved on since films directed by Hitchcock were unravelled in the search for strands of ‘ Catholic guilt ’ , but equally I still teach gay students who find it genuinely empowering to learn of the homosexuality of a cultural figure as one contributing factor to the work that he/she produced . |
| 16 | It had been argued on the Left that wars were caused by the search for profits , by imperialism , by militarism . |
| 17 | The attack , the first major violation of a ceasefire signed by the LTTE and government security forces in June 1989 [ see p. 36735 ] , dashed hopes that a breakthrough had been achieved in the search for a peaceful settlement to the conflict . |
| 18 | Two R&D programmes have been devised in the search for improved recoverability . |
| 19 | Although delegalization in one area is justified by the search for a ‘ nicer ’ way out , judicialization of child-care hearings , with separate representation of the interests of the child , is the result of disillusion-ment with a process which does not provide traditional legal procedural safeguards . |
| 20 | Erm the county is implicated in the search for erm er large scale investment . |
| 21 | My point is simply that the decision to put something in other words is a decision about style , which like all decisions about style , is constrained by the search for relevance . |
| 22 | From then on life is marked by the search for an answer which will meet the need and prove trustworthy . |
| 23 | And Dublin 's music community is united in the search for the ‘ vibe ’ . |
| 24 | Form is generalised in the search for sinewy strength . |
| 25 | A meeting of the Foreign Ministers ' of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) , held in Stockholm , the Swedish capital , on Dec. 14-15 , was dominated by the search for measures to deal with fighting in Bosnia-Hercegovina and tensions in other potential flashpoints in eastern Europe . |
| 26 | Like the army officers , the writer attempted to justify the recruitment practices of the Guards , and , as might be expected from a serious organ of right-wing opinion , more ingenuity was shown in the search for justificatory reasons than was by the lower-ranking quoted officers . |
| 27 | A police helicopter was used in the search for the two men who were both white and wearing overalls . |
| 28 | This emphasis was developed during the renaissance , when happiness was interpreted as the search for Utopia . |
| 29 | A family 's status , of which caste was part , was defined by the search for marriage partners . |