Example sentences of "[noun] to look for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the examiner picks up your script to look for question 5 , for example , he ought to be able to open the book at roughly the right place and find question 5 . |
| 2 | Ng ( 1987 ) used daily data for the period 1981–6 on the near contract for the S&P500 and VLCI indices and five currencies to look for Granger causality between spot and futures prices . |
| 3 | As to other evidence , despite the fact that other countries and other scientists believe a more detailed approach is needed , the Commission persisted in using survey data to look for proof or a lack of proof that pollution was the cause of leaf-loss and canopy thinning . |
| 4 | Opening her purse to look for change , she crossed the road to the phone box . |
| 5 | At Hambro Life Assurance new staff moving from rented property to rented property receive : the cost of moving to the new area and a disturbance allowance at the company 's expense to look for accommodation . |
| 6 | For new recruits who are selling their old property and are buying a new home , Hambro Life pays : the cost of moving to the new area ; a disturbance allowance of one month 's salary ( half paid when the employee joins the firm , the balance when the sale and purchase are completed ) ; two weekends at the company 's expense to look for accommodation ; estate agents ' , surveyors ' , building society and legal fees , including stamp duty and an allowance of £150 per month towards the cost of accommodation and/or fares for a maximum period of three months . |
| 7 | Relaxation in eligibility criteria would also reduce the pressure on able-bodied recipients to look for work . |
| 8 | I found it depressing that they all had ambitions to go to Manila to look for work when they were older — taking a one-way ticket from the garden of Eden to Sodom and Gomorrah . |
| 9 | When Andrew returned to Dartmoor he rode out to High Tor to look for Topaz . |
| 10 | None of the changes had given him any added zest for life — or , for that matter , any desire to look for trouble where no trouble was self-evidently present . |
| 11 | The government could also be tougher on benefits for invalidity and long-term sickness , whose claimants have multiplied even though national health has improved , and on payments to lone parents , who have too little incentive to look for work once their children reach school age . |
| 12 | In the changing conceptual frame inside which a science progresses , it would be as out of place to look for progress as in the styles of an art . |
| 13 | Not much but you know I 'm not rolling in money , a poor man like me needs to look for sort of er simple presents . |
| 14 | Among the best places to look for guidance are the relevant manuals themselves ( see our Booklist at the end of this book ) . |
| 15 | The natural place for a person to look for information about an unknown word is in a dictionary . |
| 16 | The Serbs struck as Bosnian families emerged from their cellars in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo to look for food . |
| 17 | Mr Boesky is free to leave the centre during the day to look for work or meet his lawyers , but has to report back by 6pm . |
| 18 | November 9 [ the day that the Wall was opened ] provides us with the chance to look for defence savings . |
| 19 | On the plains , small rodents that have spent the daylight hours in the safety of their burrows , are venturing out under the cover of night to look for food . |
| 20 | They have caused fear and suspicion and encouraged people to look for abuse where there is none , or to dress up actual sexual abuse of children with ‘ satanic ’ imputations . |
| 21 | They had gone to Vadinamia to look for phetam and had found a well-known courier — the only courier there — was also had a known connection with Ardakke . |
| 22 | However , if you feel the buyer 's going to present a business problem we show them the buyer 's guide and a business card so you can give them the buyer 's guide , explain what it 's for and then give them your business card and then that buyer 's guide to look for business card . |
| 23 | If so should LA instruct SEGLAB to look for evidence of a schwa or should it just make one up ? |
| 24 | Some mill-workers on a mid-shift and a group of men crossing the river to look for work made up the rest of the throng , with the exception of a portly little man with a bowler hat , waistcoat and watch-chain , a foreman from one of the Govan yards on an errand for the Head Office . |
| 25 | The police had warrants to look for evidence of unlawful drinking and to search five houses for petrol bombs , although no evidence of either was found . |
| 26 | The questions given above under " Groupwork " are intended to encourage trainees to look for evidence as to the effectiveness of the technique and the teacher 's use of it . |
| 27 | We do not have 21-cm observations of this region with a sufficiently high resolution to look for evidence of a concentric outer neutral gas shell , but one can make use of an assumed uniform dust-gas ratio and examine the IRAS 100μm sky plate covering this region . |
| 28 | Most looked well fed , plump even , but in the alleyways off the markets , Athelstan saw the poor , not like those in his parish but the landless men driven from their farms , flocking into the city to look for work though none was to be had . |
| 29 | You say that 01 for London has approval from the IBA to look for sponsorship whereas The South Bank Show does not . |
| 30 | As they set off across their territory in the darkness to look for prey , they leave pungent signposts . |