Example sentences of "[noun sg] to look for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While do-it-yourself rock , fan-club organizations and dancing-in-the-aisles are certainly not independent of industry interests , such a breathtaking theoretical closure reduces the musical role of the vast majority of humankind to a subservient attempt to match up , as listeners , to the demands of ‘ advanced ’ producers ; Marx 's vision of a future with every man an artist certainly seems to be definitively buried , but on a less exalted level , there is once again no attempt to look for the possibility of contradictory meanings in the actual practice of real listeners . |
| 2 | Craned my neck to look for a way up to the high high bridge , saw a rocky overgrown path over the other side of the road . |
| 3 | He went through to the kitchen to look for the brandy bottle . |
| 4 | The decision to look for a significant equity partner appears to be Virgin 's attempt to keep out of the clutches of the five majors while remaining a credible force in the worldwide music business . |
| 5 | The City 's sigh of relief at Barclays ' decision to look for an outside candidate to take on the role of chief executive was audible . |
| 6 | He went down the road to the junction to look for a taxi . |
| 7 | I can not see that any of this speculation helps us to understand the poem ; but if we must guess , it seems more to the point to look for an eight-year-old girl . |
| 8 | This legislation requires that people for the first thirteen weeks that they are unemployed have the right to look for a job which they have experience in and enjoy doing , but after 13 weeks they are required to take any job that comes along . |
| 9 | The best place to look for the substantive law relating to citizenship is not under ‘ citizenship ’ in law books . |
| 10 | A herd of cattle may seem an odd place to look for the meaning of life but it fits neatly with current American pop- psychology : no doubt these urban liberals have packed copies of Robert Bly 's ‘ Iron Jack ’ in their saddlebags . |
| 11 | But Scarlet was too far gone in disenchantment to look for a bright side . |
| 12 | Allen climbed a tall ash tree to look for the stream . |
| 13 | In the morning , having rectified the recorder fault , he walked down towards the station to look for a new location . |
| 14 | This command tells DOS to look for a match in C : \DOS , then in C : \WINDOWS and so on . |
| 15 | By mid-afternoon I was almost at Freiburg and left the motorway to look for a village in which to stay , preferably near the Rhine . |
| 16 | The sonnets may announce a compatibility between poetic convention and authentic expression ; or the sonnets may be the result of Astrophil staying within the muse 's domain , writing in imitation of familiar poetic norms and abandoning the muse 's advice to look for an authentic writing from the heart . |
| 17 | His point is that although ‘ rules of grammar ’ are arbitrary in the sense that it is a mistake to look for a justification of a language game ( 331 ) , they are not arbitrary in the sense that ‘ our language game only works , of course , when a certain agreement prevails ’ ( 430 ) . |
| 18 | She assures him she has no such thing ; he enters the tower to look for a foutre and indeed finds one beneath the lady 's clothes . |
| 19 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 20 | He never made an effort to look for a job , but would sit for hours , staring at the television and through it without seeing . |
| 21 | Last night I came to school to look for a book , and I found a musician ! … -But Tony learns very quickly . |
| 22 | then there 's a tendency to look for the reason you were assaulted within yourself |
| 23 | If he does … choose to leave his existing employment before the last minute in order to look for a new job before the rush of others competing with him comes , then that is up to him . |
| 24 | He sees himself crossing the road — deftly , like a native , knowing exactly which way to look for the traffic . |
| 25 | Now he thought he knew the sort of case he had to deal with , and what he had read had pointed which way to look for the killer . |
| 26 | I staggered round the pump to look for the others . |
| 27 | Since this practice is not yet by any means universal , and the player may not have come across it before , a note of explanation should be given at the beginning of the part , otherwise the asterisk will cause the player to look for a footnote at the bottom of the page . |