Example sentences of "[noun pl] search for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the company was about to enter a crisis period through shortage of water , Meirion Rowlands , then Production Director , thought to use copper divining rods to search for new sources of water in the hills he knew so well . |
| 2 | Perhaps , like the lungfish of today , they lived in pools that were seasonal and used lungs and legs to search for other water when their homes went dry . |
| 3 | Order from Harrods Circulating Library Harrods Ltd Knightsbridge London SW1 OUT OF PRINT BOOKS SEARCHED FOR FREE OF CHARGE |
| 4 | ‘ This is partly because employers searching for cheap labour have imposed restrictions on the freedom of trade unions in the countries in which they have invested , ’ it says . |
| 5 | Even more horrifying was a recent report aired on CBS which told of Panamanians searching for missing relatives and finding several mass graves containing at least 4,000 people . |
| 6 | He would often prowl darkened housing estates searching for potential victims , said the colleague . |
| 7 | Our parents search for strict guidelines to help heal their confused feelings towards us . |
| 8 | For Tala-Tala was the centre of the local fishing ‘ industry ’ , and its gaily painted boats searched for big fish like marlin outside the reef . |
| 9 | Lebanese regular troops searched for concealed weapons and tore down militia posters and slogans in Beirut as part of the Karami government 's demilitarization policy . |
| 10 | That most attractive bird , the heron can be observed more easily now in the reed beds and overhead some geese search for new feeding grounds . |
| 11 | Wrexham Maelor councillors , concerned at the lack of progress , have instructed officers to search for alternative sites . |
| 12 | Yet the distinctions , emphasised by regionalists searching for cultural backing , are not all that great . |
| 13 | FAMILIES searching for extra space should make a quick exit left to Barry Evans & Co . |
| 14 | Businesses searching for financial assistance can be start-ups or already trading , and should normally have a business plan . |
| 15 | This differential is primarily associated with males searching for sedentary females , though it will be exacerbated by cannibalism . |
| 16 | Ostriches could soon be a common sight in the countryside , as farmers search for profitable ways to diversify . |
| 17 | Hurricane-force winds as two lifeboats search for missing divers |
| 18 | The area was evacuated for most of the day as police searched for other devices . |
| 19 | At Fort Bragg itself , no gate blocked access to the base , no hard-eyed sentries searched for kef-crazed Iraqis bringing the jihad home . |
| 20 | On the whole these efforts carried a national emphasis , as a number of educationalists , politicians , philosophers , and political theorists searched for new and more efficient ways of building and disseminating a national sense of ancestry , tradition , and universal " free " citizenship . |
| 21 | Consumers are regarded either as blank receptors , by the mass culture theorists , or as an inherently oppositional class , by ultra-leftists searching for pure proletarianism . |
| 22 | Still others search for new religious forms , or invent their own in a small group or sect . |
| 23 | Increasingly , the courts search for past polluters and pass the bill to them . |
| 24 | The conception and management of change in these organizations confirms the inadequacy of the structure-strategy paradigm either as a heuristic for understanding the process of innovatory change or as a prescriptive tool for enterprises searching for durable competitive advantage in volatile markets . |
| 25 | Econometricians searched for empirical regularities , eventually producing Keynesian models of quite staggering complexity . |