Example sentences of "look for a [noun] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the long term we are looking for a measure of the relationship between debt financing and equity financing . |
| 2 | Yet it is not too hard to imagine how a computer parsing program might achieve some such effect : if we ask an English speaker how he does it , we may well get some reply like ‘ Well , I 'm simply looking for a sense of the word related to drinking , are n't I ? ’ |
| 3 | It takes far less time than full-scale autobiography , for we are looking for a profile of the significant events that have made you the distinctive person that you are ( warts and all , as they say ) . |
| 4 | Well I felt one of two ways , firstly when we 're looking for a moderator of the URC we 're looking for a moderator for the whole church . |
| 5 | Appetites were whetted among those working on the Tron project and a host of computer animation specialists sprang up in California looking for a piece of the Hollywood action . |
| 6 | His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check . |
| 7 | The Crick Committee , which had been appointed in 1961 and reported on A Higher Award in Business Studies in 1964 , had originally been looking for an equivalent of the DipTech , but had waited for the Robbins Report before issuing its recommendations . |
| 8 | The Andes is obviously a good place to go looking for an eruption of an andesite lava , but one would be extremely lucky to find one , because although there are numerous ‘ active ’ volcanoes along the Andean chain , andesite eruptions are really rather rare events compared to basaltic ones . |
| 9 | Answer guide : Here we are looking for an understanding of the relationships between current assets and their liquidity and current liabilities as a short-term measure . |
| 10 | Even if one were to , as I do , empathize with sophisticated functional Marxism of , say , G. A. Cohen and speak of the compatibility or incompatibility of certain sets of cultural forms with certain other sets of production relations , one would still be looking for an explanation of the specific properties of those cultural forms . |
| 11 | It is in such conditions that we should look for an explanation of the outcrop in the 1860s of sensational popular fiction , replete with desertion , adultery , bigamy and sudden death ; much of it was written from the woman 's point of view by women writers , such as Mary Braddon , Rhoda Broughton and Mrs Henry Wood . |
| 12 | His point is that although ‘ rules of grammar ’ are arbitrary in the sense that it is a mistake to look for a justification of a language game ( 331 ) , they are not arbitrary in the sense that ‘ our language game only works , of course , when a certain agreement prevails ’ ( 430 ) . |
| 13 | The Greater York authorities therefore looked for a widening of the options available , er , in Greater York , and those that have seen the Greater York study , and it is a document that we 've put in to the examination will see that there was a fundamental full scale wide ranging er assessment er of all the options er open er within the er Greater York er area and they are er set out erm in pages three er and four of N Y five . |