Example sentences of "search for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jencks concludes that to search for a comprehensive policy to tackle the underclass is a waste of time ; different policies are needed for different problems that may be only loosely related . |
| 2 | They want to be able to lend without having to search for a suitable borrower , and to get their money back quickly if their own need for liquidity changes . |
| 3 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 4 | I have to search for a two-way adaptor and a tape to try it out . |
| 5 | In order to search for a possible role for NCp7 during reverse transcription , we examined the ability of NCp7 to facilitate the annealing of complementary DNA and RNA strands . |
| 6 | The growing barbarization of the war , especially following the invasion of the Soviet Union , led to an increasing dehumanization of the abstract image of the ‘ Jew ’ and a corresponding ‘ internalization ’ of the justification of the need to search for a radical solution to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 7 | This study in a large population of patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome aimed to search for a differential pattern of gastric endocrine cells between patients with sporadic type Zollinger-Ellison sydrome and those with the syndrome and MEN 1 , and to establish whether there is a real predominance of ECL cell tumours in the second group . |
| 8 | It is true that to search for a legal framework in which the ill-articulated wishes of a testator can be given effect is to regard the testator 's intention . |
| 9 | This led her to search for a continuous tradition which had been activated by occult means and linked the French and Russian Revolutions . |
| 10 | As was said by the Royal Commission , the police should not , on a warrant to search for a stolen grand piano , look under the floorboards or in the water cistern . |
| 11 | Here they also found the values of the market place , which stressed personal independence and self-gratification , and began to search for a sexual fulfilment which , Shorter . |
| 12 | One aim of experiments is to search for a compact spelling which can show sound and meaning as directly as possible , meet the needs of all who learn and use it , and is still close to existing spelling which has , so to speak , been ‘ cleaned up ’ . |
| 13 | On coming to power in Tbilisi , the new military council expressed its readiness to search for a negotiated solution to the problems in South Ossetia and , as a gesture of goodwill , on Jan. 7 released the Ossetian leader Torez Kolumbegov who had been held since January 1991 [ see pp. 37971 ; 38014 ] . |
| 14 | It is interesting here to note that it is paralleled by one from Islam of how Allah sent the angel Gabriel to search for a pious man in a certain place . |
| 15 | Search can also be used to search for a single word or a string of words and letters . |
| 16 | In fact it is futile to search for a rigorous definition which will ‘ correctly ’ locate the division between the ‘ working class ’ and the ‘ middle class ’ in Britain . |
| 17 | In bibliographic databases , it is important to consider whether pupils will want or need to search for a particular author , a particular location or a particular format such as " book " or " video " . |
| 18 | It searches for a fallen corolla , |
| 19 | And although her slenderness gave her an air of fragility , Guy had felt the gentle curves of her body when he 'd searched for a concealed weapon . |
| 20 | Her mind searched for a safer topic . |
| 21 | The recruitment managers searched for a curious combination , success in career or studies to date , coupled with frustration at its limited demands and prospects . |
| 22 | This is very similar to the way a cassette is searched for a particular file . |
| 23 | PALESTINIAN gunmen shot and wounded an Israeli soldier in the occu pied West Bank yesterday , as army patrols searched for a kidnapped border guard . |
| 24 | Police are searching for a blunt instrument . |
| 25 | The paper offers a model derived from ‘ job search theory ’ which is concerned with the optimal behaviour of an unemployed individual who is searching for a suitable job in the labour market . |
| 26 | Hope keeps the characters searching for a better life . |
| 27 | He was searching for a complete lyricist who could add flavour to songs he was intending to be covered by bigger artists . |
| 28 | She gripped the wheel , looking alternately into the rear-view mirror and ahead , searching for a turn-off where she might be able to lose the chasing Audi . |
| 29 | PROFESSIONAL hunters called in by police were today searching for a great white shark that killed a scuba diver on his honeymoon . |
| 30 | Yet , while the New Popsters produced a stream of memorable hit singles ( Culture Club 's Do You Really Want To Hurt Me , or Duran 's Hungry Like The Wolf ) , within three years they 'd all be defunct , or frantically searching for a new ‘ adult ’ audience . |