Example sentences of "[noun] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 2 | DALIAN ATKINSON could be the next target as England manager Graham Taylor looks for a hit-man . |
| 3 | Peter Scott assesses Perry Anderson 's verdict on English intellectuals ; Tony Parker on Thatcherism 's casualties ; Stephen Howe looks for new life in the unions ; Conor Gearty cross-examines a defender of the Bar ; and Geoff Dyer wades through Ted Hughes ' Shakespearean fantasy |
| 4 | I have always said that there are thousands of qualified accountants sitting out there in small companies where they are finance directors , credit controllers , company secretaries , advisers to the board , the people to whom the board looks for everything . |
| 5 | It is here in the big crunch that Dr Tipler looks for God . |
| 6 | Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish . |
| 7 | On the recommendation of a 1958 report from the Commons Select Committee on Estimates , a technocratic team had been commissioned to build on the forward looks for social-service and defence spending pioneered by the Treasury in the mid-fifties . |
| 8 | NEC LOOKS FOR SUPERCOMPUTER BUSINESS |
| 9 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 10 | ‘ People tend at first to treat you as if you 're a journalist looking for Guinness connections . ’ |
| 11 | A rock journalist looking for a scoop ? |
| 12 | ‘ We spent months looking for ideas that would appeal to us , ’ he remembers . |
| 13 | ‘ We have spent months looking for someone to lead our efforts , ’ he said . |
| 14 | He was like a man who has made one step forward into unknown territory and stands looking for a path . |
| 15 | A racing stables looking for warm and healthy bedding for its horses has found the answer in yellow pages … quite literally . |
| 16 | A story of a man called Texaz looking for his woman and of a girl called Sabi looking for something else . |
| 17 | His first act needs to be to get the corporate search people straight back into action looking for outsiders to run the AS/400 business — someone from Hewlett-Packard perhaps , the disk business , the chip business , the software and services business . |
| 18 | Leonard spent hours walking and cycling around the neighbourhood looking for it . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been beating the bushes looking for you for hours ! ’ |
| 20 | From fashion designers looking for a source of chic thrills to Sunday supplements looking to tickle their readers ' fancy , everyone has plundered the S&M scene for imagery . |
| 21 | Designers looking for examples of how to code randomizing algorithms should consult Snader , who gives examples of various functions coded in Fortran , Basic and Pascal ; Morris , who gives Fortran code both for chaining and hashing ; and Johnson and Cooper , who provide comprehensive coded examples in COBOL . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 23 | The trouble is that , with the club looking for immediate improved results , it is sometimes difficult to persevere for too long with newcomers . |
| 24 | Midas , in Sloane Square , sells exclusive designer fashionwear making it an obvious target for jet-set shoplifters looking for the ultimate bargain . |
| 25 | The ghost associated with it remains a permanent threat to the living , as it wanders the earth with a stretched neck looking for companions . |
| 26 | Looking for er people who cand , not candidates looking for people to , you know , vote for him ? |
| 27 | I had promised to go round the shops looking for something suitable , since my mother had shown that she wished to accompany me . |
| 28 | She ran into other nearby shops looking for him and asking people if they 'd seen him . |
| 29 | In this sense the scene is clearly one of hazard problems looking for improved GIS rather than for GIS looking for good problems , as is all too often the case . |
| 30 | At times I had spent hours roaming around pastures looking for poisonous plants but that was pointless with Billings 's calves because they had never been out ; they were mere babies ofa month old . |