Example sentences of "looking for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |
| 2 | One down against Jan Timman , with three left to play , he was looking for a solid advantage with the white pieces . |
| 3 | Backstage staff assembling and building the set are looking for a 1930s-style upright wheelchair , and a male ventriloquist 's dummy . |
| 4 | The manager 's problem tonight is to find a replacement for the injured Brian O'Neil , while looking for a wholehearted performance against a side whose manager , Simon Stainrod , is as relaxed as Brady is uncomfortable . |
| 5 | His followers tended to concentrate on the progressionist element , looking for a serial relationship between the classes of animal life and minimizing the gaps between the known forms . |
| 6 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 7 | Overall a recommended buy if you are looking for a simple but powerful professional database . |
| 8 | If you 're looking for a great highlight to a misty walk , incorporate a visit to a good ruin . |
| 9 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 10 | LOZ was revelling more than most , and after the club closed he dragged sexy woolly hat-wearing NME hack SIMON WILLIAMS around the streets of Islington looking for a pot-bellied old man clutching a bottle of champagne as it was ‘ the only way we 'll get a drink at this time in the morning ’ . |
| 11 | If you 're looking for a part-time job such as babysitting or a paper round , try to find one through family or friends . |
| 12 | His small dark eyes darted around the smoke-filled room , looking for a friendly face , but they were all closed and impassive . |
| 13 | He scrutinised the crowd , looking for a friendly face . |
| 14 | Like gangs , bullies are not looking for a stand-up fight , but for a victim ; the best way to beat them is to give more trouble than they can handle . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't say that you are looking for a gilded mare too ! ’ |
| 16 | Whitehead Mann has taken on some of the highest salaried job searches in Britain , comparable with Russell Reynolds ' recruiting of Bob Bauman for Beecham ; an assignment on behalf of a major British company looking for a chief executive to run their operations in Australia earned the firm £333 000 , according to the popular press ( on the basis that the successful candidate was to be paid an annual salary approaching £1m . ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think they 're looking for a battered glamour boy , ’ Scott said . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He knows that he 's looking for a one-way result . |
| 20 | But So we 're looking for a nice balance between clutch and throttle , that you 're not being jerked and the not clutch is not bloody flying every time that you take let your foot to engage a gear . |
| 21 | And they 're looking for a nice house to put them on . |
| 22 | The child handler competition is open to anyone under 16 and the judges will be looking for a good rapport between kids and dogs . |
| 23 | The Breed Club runs a rescue and rehoming service which often ( sadly ) has an older ‘ Charlie ’ looking for a good home . |
| 24 | At night the harbour lights up and the atmosphere becomes electric as the streets of Aghios Nikolaos fill up with people looking for a good time in the restaurants , bars and discos . |
| 25 | He wandered along the brighter corridors near Nettles looking for a good place to plant his seeds . |
| 26 | If you have £10,000 or more to invest , you 'll be looking for a good return on your money . |
| 27 | Sir — If anyone is looking for a good cause to support — perhaps as a competitor in the ADT London Marathon , or in some other activity — please remember the NSPCC . |
| 28 | If quality control is up to scratch and this kind of general finish is maintained throughout the range , then I would not hesitate in recommending a Rockwood to anyone looking for a good , all-round , budget guitar . |
| 29 | She 's looking for a good situation . |
| 30 | A CANINE hero who helped save a dog which was dying from rat poison is now looking for a good home . |