Example sentences of "and look for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Shaper : pushes the team towards action , sets objectives and looks for outcomes ; dominant , extrovert and anxious . |
| 2 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |
| 3 | If we believe that it is right to push back the boundaries of middle age a few years , we can happily keep our young tastes and looks for a bit longer . |
| 4 | Each child has a number and looks for a packet with it on , which contains a small present . |
| 5 | The government 's aim has always been to attract foreign investment ; only its tactics have changed as the tiny city-state ( 639 sq km ) matures and looks for more sophisticated investors to help it achieve the longed-for ‘ developed nation ’ status by 2030 . |
| 6 | Ipswich man of the match Bryn Kerr is tackled and looks for support from flanker James Bisdee . |
| 7 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 8 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 9 | Chatsworth , California-based personal computer manufacturer Packard Bell Inc has established a headquarters facility in the Netherlands to handle manufacturing , distribution and service for Packard Bell products throughout Europe : the new unit includes 250 employees ; last year , Packard Bell did about $100m in Europe , 10% of its 1992 worldwide sales of $925m , and looks for $200m or 16% this year . |
| 10 | Even companies doing relatively well must keep the tightest control on costs in the prevailing climate , and Hewlett-Packard Co is offering a voluntary severance-incentive programme to employees in some job categories , and looks for about 2,700 employees to leave in early 1993 , about 2,000 of them in the US . |
| 11 | More recently , social policy in this country has been informed by political economy — that tradition , primarily but not exclusively derived from Marxism , which identifies the ideological character of disciplinary boundaries and looks for explanations of the nature of social structure and social process in terms of the character of the dominant mode of production ( see Gough , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | The algorithm scans the sequence of top symbols of parses , and looks for pairs M , P which crop up together unexpectedly often . |
| 13 | Apted 's definitions do not seem to take into account the student who goes directly to the shelves and looks for a book for an essay topic . |
| 14 | She rises , moves the improvised drying rack of Riva 's clothing to one side , feeds more coal to the fire , settles back and looks for the words in the flames . |
| 15 | And the only way these can make a difference is if he shares them , tests them out , listens to other ideas and looks for ways to put them into practice . |
| 16 | That bears the fruits of past , sound financial management , preserved services and looks for as many efficiencies as possible . |
| 17 | Some of the gentry in South Wales also had Jacobite leanings , and looked for leadership to Lewis Pryse of Aberystwyth and the Duke of Beaufort . |
| 18 | His two thumbs rotated about one another as they always did when he was agitated and looking for a way to strike . |
| 19 | Cadillac 's UK importer was aware of Leland 's achievement , and looking for a way to prove the car 's craftsmanship . |
| 20 | Millwall v Arsenal Arsenal still have to find their form of a year ago but they continue to pick up points at regular intervals , and with Marwood fit and Groves recovered from a virus they should have the resources to beat a Millwall side again lacking Briley and looking for their first League win since September 23 . |
| 21 | Happy Mondays , The Stone Roses , Flowered Up , Primal Scream and The Paris Angels have no real feel for club music ; they 've brought in the ‘ wrong ’ element , and so the purists and the elitists are changing direction and looking for an alternative . |
| 22 | Warner Brothers said PWL stepped into the breach and were putting together the songs for the movie , including using several old 50 ’ s classics by Little Richard , Eddie Cochran and all , while Kylie was doing a cover version of ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , by Little Anthony and the Imperials , and looking for a Christmas Number One . |
| 23 | The ladies , sisters , were English and looking for somewhere cheap but clean while they stayed on in Florence to attend art classes . |
| 24 | Cooper , knocked out by Floyd Patterson in his previous fight and looking for a gentle return to the ring , took on Boston Jacobs , an unknown New Yorker . |
| 25 | The change in employment may not always be so favourable as yesterday 's either , but the market is now starting to feel bullish and looking for a FT-SE of 3,000 by next year . |
| 26 | The general rules on Hering 's law of cure and looking for improvement in well-being still applies but it is necessary to take into account pathological tissues change . |
| 27 | As our eyes open to the perilous state of the world , it is hardly surprising that so many sensible people are turning instinctively to the land and looking for smallholdings . |
| 28 | I would save myself and those around a lot of heartache by forgetting the Sahara and looking for another curacy . |
| 29 | and comparing it with pig blood infected with ASFV and looking for similarities . |
| 30 | All the signs are that somewhere there is a warehouse full of unwanted red-blue 3D specs , going cheap and looking for an alternative use . |