Example sentences of "searching for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ship had spent eight days searching for a port in which to dock , and had been refused permission to dock by the Aden port authorities on June 19 . |
| 2 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 3 | The women and children were back in our office , and a sister of one of the victims had gone into the bush , in her grief , searching for a sign of them . |
| 4 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 5 | Kim took a deep breath , searching for a lull in the conversation , |
| 6 | He asserted that the West was searching for a pretext for an Israeli military assault on Iraq and that this was a mistake , " because by God we will make the fire eat up half of Israel if it tries to do anything against Iraq " . |
| 7 | The driver was searching for a gap in the traffic . |
| 8 | An extreme case of this approach is one in which solid models are required to interpret the local geometry when searching for a clash between two objects . |
| 9 | Dentists searching for a substitute for traditional amalgam fillings are getting a boost from the British government . |
| 10 | I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers . |
| 11 | If you are searching for a solution to an undefined need it is more than likely that you 'll be seduced by the obvious attractions of graphics oriented programs like PageMaker , Ready Set Go and so on . |
| 12 | MORE than 12 months after the closure of the Corporate Wardrobe and the selling off of the entire stock in a giant sale , Branch Banking 's Deputy Managing Director Bob McInnes is still searching for a solution to the uniform issue . |
| 13 | For a long moment silence hung in the air between them , Candy obviously searching for a solution to a problem she had never encountered before . |
| 14 | Once they had reached the spiky barrier Trentham changed direction and began to crawl along the German side of the fence searching for a breach in the wire between them and safety . |
| 15 | Spencer Stuart was certainly the loser when one of their senior consultants in Hong Kong , Paul Cheng , was searching for a director of corporate affairs for overseas trader Inchcape and decided to join them . |
| 16 | He looked at me and chewed his bottom lip as if searching for a remnant of breakfast . |
| 17 | Searching for a record in blocked format is complicated by the fact that only one key can be placed in front of the block . |
| 18 | Only a few writers in international relations ( notably Jervis , 1976 ; Steinbruner , 1974 ) have seriously questioned the assumption of rationality in state policy making and some more recent works have distinguished bargaining in which the parties are not consciously conflictual but are searching for a point of convergence ( Raiffa , 1982 ; Rangarajan , 1985 ) . |
| 19 | I have the impression of an enemy general , scanning our lines through his field-glasses , or a hardened housebreaker , openly searching for a point of entry . |
| 20 | Deeside Dragons , still searching for a point in the Heineken British League First Division , have released the Americans Tim McGee and Tim Caddo . |
| 21 | Arthur Dunkel , GATT 's director-general , is shuttling between capitals searching for a basis on which to resume talks . |
| 22 | Actually , I find snowdrops rather insipid , ’ he admitted as though searching for an excuse for his negative attitude . |
| 23 | The continuing military stalemate , even after the advent of the coalition governments of 1915 and 1916 , saw the emergence of both populist and radical right resentment , searching for an explanation of the impasse on the western front . |
| 24 | Just after the war a BBC programme assistant called Godfrey Baseley , searching for an alternative to the stiff , technical talks from farming experts on the radio , hit on the idea of giving agricultural advice in the form of a story . |
| 25 | Again Cowley took the picture , and smiled ; but his mind was racing , searching for the link between what Roz had said and the image he held of a man , killed in a car crash . |
| 26 | As far as Humphreys is concerned , firms which occupy the high ground in executive search are not necessarily limited in the variety , volume or type of search work that can be undertaken ; for example , Tyzack 's recent work includes finding the chairman of London Transport , looking simultaneously for three chief executives for an international trading company in the Far East , Europe and the US ( none of whom was to earn less than US$450 000 ) , searching for the chairman of the Monopolies & Mergers Commission , tracking down the chief executive of a building society and the MD of a conglomerate which , during the search , was defending itself against likely take-over bids . |
| 27 | According to Stanley Turner , curator of the Michael Peto archive at Dundee University , ‘ he was continuously searching for the vision of a monumental human form to epitomise the universality of whatever scene , situation or event he was out to capture … always intent on raising his workday subjects from fleeting , mundane , accidental movement into symbolic representatives of their class or profession . ’ |
| 28 | But for those searching for the stuff of rock'n'roll greatness , as yet they lack the scope and dynamics which is an essential ingredient . |
| 29 | Slater was silent for a second , gazing disdainfully at Graham 's snapping fingers , then he said tiredly , " Graham , either concentrate on searching for the title of the book you 're talking about or devote your full energies to practising calling for a waiter ; I 'm not convinced you possess the RAM for doing both at the same time . " |
| 30 | Peter Naulls and he , searching for the hole into the mine , had got as suntanned as if they had been on the kind of holiday they never had , on the beaches of Spain or Italy . |