Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [n mass] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday are looking for £800,000 for the former Swindon player , who Chelsea value at closer to £500,000 . |
| 2 | Ever since filing his first application as British Atlantic , Randolph Fields had been scouring the world looking for aircraft of the right type and price . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're always looking for people of the right calibre , although today , with the downturn in levels of activity , it 's harder to get into corporate finance than it was five years ago , ’ he warns . |
| 4 | A recent study of people 's lives in the year before their death makes it possible to examine the part residential and nursing homes play in caring for people during the twelve months before their death . |
| 5 | The local economy is overwhelmingly dependent on oil and gas extraction and , more important still , on energy-guzzling industries , with the chemical industry accounting for 41% of the value-added in the state and oil refining for another 17% . |