Example sentences of "in [pos pn] quest for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That might encourage more young Britons to stay on at school in their quest for a good job . |
| 2 | The order of the book as laid out is thus merely a façade , disguising a deeper , underlying order , and , in effect , what Cortázar is inviting us to do is to throw off our habitual passiveness , to reject the given and to join him and Oliveira in their quest for a different , more authentic order . |
| 3 | For the blacks , too , the war proved an important stage in their quest for a better deal . |
| 4 | " Men were driven by greed and terror " in their quest for a new lord . |
| 5 | Swindon Town still have it all to play for in their quest for a place in the Premier League , but the sounds emanating from this Manchester Road recording studio are enough to frighten the life out of their play-off rivals . |
| 6 | In her latest novel , Jazz , Toni Morrison has dipped back into a time before cross-over , when African-American music was all-black , in her quest for a uniquely black literary language . |
| 7 | Rose , too , in her quest for a dress became money-conscious . |
| 8 | The first initiative taken by the government in its quest for a rational means of financially managing public sector higher education was to ask the House of Commons Select Committee on Education , Science and Arts , under the Chairmanship of Christopher Price MP , to examine the matter . |
| 9 | In his quest for a solution to the contra insurgency , Mr Ortega dramatised the situation at the end of October by cancelling a 19-month-old ceasefire and resuming offensive operations . |
| 10 | Although he found much to admire in the oriental-megalomaniac architecture of Kim 's Korea or Mao 's China , in his quest for a style suitable for a monumental Bucharest he looked to precedents closer to home . |
| 11 | In his quest for a good time , Reid partied and drank his way through his considerable salary . |
| 12 | Let us try another tack in our quest for a definition of complexity , and make use of the mathematical idea of probability . |