Example sentences of "[noun pl] looking for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A racing stables looking for warm and healthy bedding for its horses has found the answer in yellow pages … quite literally . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He is now concentrating on providing M&A services to Japanese clients looking for acquisitions in Europe , Japanese clients looking for domestic acquisitions and European clients looking for Japanese acquisitions . |
| 5 | He is now concentrating on providing M&A services to Japanese clients looking for acquisitions in Europe , Japanese clients looking for domestic acquisitions and European clients looking for Japanese acquisitions . |
| 6 | British manufacturers looking for new product lines are being targeted by former US funeral company director . |
| 7 | And there are always builders looking for cheap properties to renovate . |
| 8 | Chairman Garry Gibson revealed that Murray had been in touch with a string of top clubs looking for pre-deadline newcomers . |
| 9 | The proactive approach is best suited to identifying strategic acquisitions where a purchaser is prepared to pay a fair price , whereas the reactive approach is more suited to acquirors looking for opportunistic sale situations . |
| 10 | While the driver runs his hands along our limbs looking for suspicious objects , Sergeant Kellard stands aside . |
| 11 | While many collectors are turning over every hedge and collective barn they can find within the Russian Republic and its former constituents and satellites for hidden treasures , a small and dedicated band have been scouring the Asia-Pacific region for many decades looking for Japanese material . |
| 12 | A NEW guide to guest houses in Darlington will be published soon aimed at visitors looking for economic , good accommodation . |
| 13 | Business visitors looking for editorial staff seemed bemused to find themselves in the middle of such a busy and , it has to be said , chatty event . |
| 14 | This will alternate between contracts put out to tender and listing companies looking for joint ventures , partners , distributors , agents and so on . |
| 15 | WHO are more preposterous : the developers marching round southern England drawing up plans to turn some of the world 's most pleasing countryside into toytown suburbs ; or the nouveau-rural Volvo commuters looking for trendy ways to stop them ? |
| 16 | There were very few well-dressed citizens , most of the denizens of the alleyways being rogues and villains ; tinkers , trying to sell without permission from the Guilds , professional beggars , and rat-faced slum dwellers looking for easy prey . |
| 17 | She scoured the streets in the poorer areas looking for likely candidates and then , knowing the reality of poverty , taught them the rules of hygiene in her own way , which the Girls would imitate and laugh at behind her back . |
| 18 | In areas where the population is relatively small and thinly-spread , fieldworkers looking for new sites may well discover ruins and large monuments , such as burial mounds , hillforts , and rock paintings that were previously unknown . |
| 19 | They have yet to establish a track record of resale value , and buyers looking for sound investments may prefer to play safe and buy equivalent Persian or Anatolian rugs . |
| 20 | The problems arise , he says , when neglect and deprivation of children leads to violent behaviour , or when values are imposed in an authoritarian way , as can be convenient for governments looking for quick answers to youth disaffection . |
| 21 | Banking in particular , seems particularly susceptible to failures in foreign markets caused by reactive pressures — much of the Third World debt problems can be traced to banks looking for easy foreign expansion routes when faced by lack of growth in domestic markets . |
| 22 | Newcastle looked better in the second half , slogging their way forward in the heavy conditions looking for agoal . |
| 23 | It could become a money spinner for farmers looking for alternative crops in the face of expected cutbacks in EC farm support prices . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Morningstar Foods were two other junk issuers who attracted similar bids from firms looking for cheap assets . |
| 26 | Equally , litigation practitioners looking for early rights of audience in the higher courts have shown remarkable tolerance of the delays necessarily involved in trying to secure the same rights for solicitors in commerce , industry and the public service . |
| 27 | It is also manna to lawyers looking for juicy briefs in civil litigation . |
| 28 | The British Invasion was underway , but the women were still good girls looking for great guys — Cilla , Sandie , Dusty , Lulu — while the blues boom lads were getting laid and getting all the plaudits . |
| 29 | Families who wished to emigrate and girls looking for domestic jobs were referred to two societies affiliated to the COS , the East End Emigration Society and the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants . |
| 30 | In India , it is still believed that certain people are able to assume the shape of a manticore , which then circles villages looking for human prey . |