Example sentences of "the [noun] to look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mainly from Spain and France , the variety to look for is the Spanish Manzanilla olive which has a fine texture and flavour . |
| 2 | At one point she 'd given a talk on Sky TV about all the signs to look for in a youngster abusing solvents . |
| 3 | I was thinking about sending out the cavalry to look for you if you had n't shown up tonight . ’ |
| 4 | The decision to look for a significant equity partner appears to be Virgin 's attempt to keep out of the clutches of the five majors while remaining a credible force in the worldwide music business . |
| 5 | He went through to the kitchen to look for the brandy bottle . |
| 6 | The process of running a program means that it carries out the CPU instructions in the program file , some of which will involve telling the PC to look for certain data files on disk which it will use for its own ends . |
| 7 | John later came back to the box and searched around the land round the cabin to look for explanations but no solution presented itself and the mystery remains to this day and defies rational belief . |
| 8 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ So , when you failed to find him , you gave up and went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 10 | I think he had left the study to look for something . |
| 11 | Disunity in Congress also compelled the administration to look for allies if it was to risk military involvement . |
| 12 | It is the way in which the public is presented with the facts , rather than the facts themselves , which almost guarantees panic and resistance to the proposal to look for extra resources . |
| 13 | The ASP rule-book asked the judges to look for the most radical manoeuvres in the most critical section of the wave ( that is , nearest the curl ) . |
| 14 | The theatre was not large , and the bulk of the audience were out in a couple of minutes , umbrellas raised , heads dropped , darting off into the Village to look for their cars , or a place where they could put some drink in their systems , and play critics . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember a number that I think might interest you , ’ he said encouragingly , starting at the beginning of the book and going down the columns to look for it . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's gone round the pubs to look for you . ’ |
| 17 | Down to the seashore to look for mussels ? ’ |
| 18 | Mr Lanaghan returned to the scene to look for his attackers about 10 times … because he felt the police had little chance of success . |
| 19 | The constant cuts in arts funding are forcing organisations like the ENO to look for backing from other sources |
| 20 | ‘ I can remember going down the Speakeasy with The Clash to look for models to give us cocaine and blow jobs . |
| 21 | She briefly told them what had occurred , and asked the lad to look for me and tell me that I must go to the police station and not come home without an officer for protection . |
| 22 | We were made welcome by the teachers , provided with a floor to sleep on , and within an hour had set off into the forest to look for wild cocoa . |
| 23 | It is a ludicrous situation of expecting people in high areas of unemployment like the Falls or the Shankill to look for jobs that do n't exist , to train for jobs that are not there . |
| 24 | I can not see that any of this speculation helps us to understand the poem ; but if we must guess , it seems more to the point to look for an eight-year-old girl . |
| 25 | This legislation requires that people for the first thirteen weeks that they are unemployed have the right to look for a job which they have experience in and enjoy doing , but after 13 weeks they are required to take any job that comes along . |
| 26 | Deborah Sherwin , prosecuting , said Mr Holloway was able to pick out Eyles after police took him around the town to look for his assailant . |
| 27 | He went down the road to the junction to look for a taxi . |
| 28 | If long-term changes were taking place , the Commission 's forests were not the place to look for them . |
| 29 | Oddbins is the place to look for these alternative fizzes — especially with its special deal on sparklers , offering seven bottles for the price of six . |
| 30 | Today some analysts ( Frisby 1985 ; see Chapter Five above ) are beginning to suggest that the place to look for formative conditions of paradigm change in the human sciences is instead in the aesthetic sphere . |