Example sentences of "look for [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Property : The Irish blessings worth counting Simon Courtauld looks for gold in the Emerald Isle |
| 2 | Women often are as important as men in making and keeping these links , which is one reason why the importance of the kin network in employment frequently has been missed by other researchers , who have looked for people with the same surname . |
| 3 | Large numbers of teachers are looking for resources in the secondary school and classroom visits in the primary school . |
| 4 | ‘ We are looking for members of the Asian community who can provide memories of when they first came into the area , how they got employment , how the locals opened up to them , their first impressions of Britain and the problems of racism they may have encountered . ’ |
| 5 | You can drive along a motorway for years and see nothing , but once you learn the quivering shape above the verge is a hovering kestrel looking for voles in the short grass , it becomes difficult to pass a kestrel ever again without mentally noting what it is , what it is doing and why it is there . |
| 6 | IF EVER any miserable bastards were looking for evidence in the tedious ‘ American Bands Are Better Than Their Limp Bit Counterparts ’ argument , then the imbalance between Yanks Velvet and Glaswegian wranglers Perspex would ( unfortunately ) send the US-ophiles sprinting around a victory lap at Wem-ber-lee Stadium . |
| 7 | Donna glanced around , looking for Ryker amongst the three or four dozen other people who had left the train along with her . |
| 8 | ‘ Bill was being treated at South Cleveland Hospital and he saw notices that they were looking for donations for the holistic centre in the new hospital building . |
| 9 | Looking for happiness in the right place |
| 10 | Looking for tourist highlights in Montepulciano is , to change a crumbling analogy , rather like looking for elephants in the African bush . |
| 11 | We have identified them after looking for relatedness along the entire value chain , including both inputs and outputs , that make up the offering . |
| 12 | ‘ .. it will be a great disappointment to those looking for advice on the best available techniques of traffic management , or integrated transport and land use planning . |
| 13 | Wednesday are looking for £800,000 for the former Swindon player , who Chelsea value at closer to £500,000 . |
| 14 | " In view of the unpopularity the nuclear industry has earned in the developed world , it is now looking for markets in the developing world , " Greenpeace said . |
| 15 | In looking for buyers for the gold-producing assets , Hanson has been helped by the recent upturn in the gold price . |
| 16 | We are currently looking for trainees in the following areas : |
| 17 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 18 | The criteria for inclusion are complicated , but basically the doctors were looking for men in the top 10 per cent of overall risk . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Pearce look for Phillips on the right Lewis got there first but it dropped to Stone . |
| 22 | And yet , if we look for signs of the biblical revival that the Council wanted to awaken , in many ways and in many parts of the Catholic world the answer is indeed ‘ yes ’ , and all the more so if we remember how much leeway there was to be made up in knowledge and use of the Bible by Catholics . |
| 23 | Look for names in the Yellow Pages or the Hollis Annual . |
| 24 | Ask an insurance broker for details , or look for advertisements in the canine press . |
| 25 | If so , you may look for work of the same status , remunerated at the same level , for a reasonable time , without having your compensation reduced as a result . |
| 26 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 27 | He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car . |
| 28 | The papacy 's moral powers enabled it to look for money throughout the western world . |
| 29 | Feeling that they needed their own independence , they have now returned to look for funding from the voluntary sector . |
| 30 | Much of that research has , in turn , been inspired by an attempt , especially among American psychologists , to understand and predict ‘ giftedness ’ : as such , in seeking reasons for differences in creativity , their preference has naturally been to look for evidence of the latter 's association with excellence , superiority , and health rather than with maladjustment or psychological deviance . |