Example sentences of "be searching for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am searching for a pattern . |
| 2 | CENTRAL Scotland police are searching for a man seen leaving a building which was deliberately set alight on Stirling Road , Dunblane , late last Friday evening . |
| 3 | often , new songwriters are searching for a recording contract as artists . |
| 4 | Whether you are in the market for a new car , or are searching for a value-for money second-hand model , you may need to borrow money to help finance the deal . |
| 5 | POLICE in Co Down are searching for a thief who locked a safe after stealing its church collection contents from a parochial house . |
| 6 | They can not therefore meet the needs of cities that are searching for a method to restrain traffic over large areas . |
| 7 | If you are searching for a solution to an undefined need it is more than likely that you 'll be seduced by the obvious attractions of graphics oriented programs like PageMaker , Ready Set Go and so on . |
| 8 | Only a few writers in international relations ( notably Jervis , 1976 ; Steinbruner , 1974 ) have seriously questioned the assumption of rationality in state policy making and some more recent works have distinguished bargaining in which the parties are not consciously conflictual but are searching for a point of convergence ( Raiffa , 1982 ; Rangarajan , 1985 ) . |
| 9 | Malcolm Crosby is fighting hard to keep his job at Sunderland , even though the directors are searching for a replacement . |
| 10 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 11 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 12 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 13 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 14 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 15 | A serious inquiry into the theory that almost all Australians had no fathers and have been searching for a father figure ever since , only to find it in their own persons , with resultant confusion . |
| 16 | I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers . |
| 17 | Instead he went over to one of the shelves and pretended to be searching for a book . |
| 18 | He will be searching for a monster pike and working his way slowly along the river by casting spinners and lures into all of the likely spots . |
| 19 | Erika dissented quite vehemently from this heresy while , despite herself , her eyes were searching for a mirror . |
| 20 | We hear Uniplex is searching for a US president . |
| 21 | It 's no secret that Cloughie is searching for a centre-half . ’ |
| 22 | Violet Sangston found me while I was searching for a hiding-place . |
| 23 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 24 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 25 | He asserted that the West was searching for a pretext for an Israeli military assault on Iraq and that this was a mistake , " because by God we will make the fire eat up half of Israel if it tries to do anything against Iraq " . |
| 26 | She had innate sense of good movement and was searching for a system embodying those principles which fulfilled her concept of the art of movement and teaching its technique . |
| 27 | Now they were seeping into the consciousness of people within a milieu which , rejecting straight left politics , was searching for a route out of a hippy enclave at a time when the political temperature was rising . |
| 28 | The driver was searching for a gap in the traffic . |
| 29 | Spencer Stuart was certainly the loser when one of their senior consultants in Hong Kong , Paul Cheng , was searching for a director of corporate affairs for overseas trader Inchcape and decided to join them . |