Example sentences of "[noun] look for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 2 | ‘ I think a lot of supporters look for that because they all want to be leaders themselves — they want to be the boss , they do n't want to be the tea-boy . ’ |
| 3 | And Jesus was going across to the other side to look for this man . |
| 4 | The judge will go over the dog using his hands and eyes to look for any faults in conformation , but most of all to ascertain the virtues of the animal . |
| 5 | There were racetrack express buses , I found , going from the city to the Downs , so I went on one at about six o'clock and strolled around at ground level looking for some way of conveying to Bill Baudelaire the water samples which were now individually wrapped inside the nondescript plastic carrier . |
| 6 | The other game was far more interesting with Speelman looking for much of the time as though he was spending a very unhappy 33rd birthday . |
| 7 | Those who spend their lives looking for some practical escape from the ordinary world eventually have to accept the fact that there is no escape except through death or the imagination . |
| 8 | And as we are unlikely to see any real harmonisation of accounting procedures , fiscal requirements or business practices throughout the Community in the near future , pan-European accounting systems will be increasingly important to the large number of UK companies looking for all the help they can get . |
| 9 | Boosted by that success , Scotland looked for more , and they duly obliged three minutes into the second half when Paul Telfer 's flag-kick was met by Duncan Ferguson 's deadly forehead , the ball speeding past a bemused Tony Mallia . |
| 10 | And that 's where engineering you know , knowledge , comes er to bear because an engineer looks for that , he looks for the easy , simplest you know er method of production er which gives him an effective er machining operation throughout the whole job . |
| 11 | His actions were deliberate , his trained eye looking for any bugs that might be hidden in the room . |
| 12 | A place to look for such mechanisms , as T. J. Clark has suggested , might be in the content of modernist and proto-modernist works of art . |
| 13 | Oddbins is the place to look for these alternative fizzes — especially with its special deal on sparklers , offering seven bottles for the price of six . |
| 14 | Much of the next couple of hundred yards of river are fairly shallow and fast and would be good points to fish in the height of summer when fish look for these places for the extra oxygen available there . |
| 15 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 16 | The conventionalist judge we just imagined , who worries whether deciding against Mrs. McLoughlin would be efficient in virtue of the precedents that mothers may recover for emotional injury sustained at the scene , has no need to look for any larger underlying principle " embedded " in these precedents or to defend one controversial view about the content of these principles . |
| 17 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 18 | Davis 's death in 1907 left Swindin looking for another post . |
| 19 | He left the set that day looking for all the world like a nine-stone weakling who had just thrown sand in the face of the beach bully . |
| 20 | My father looks for another . |
| 21 | Either you can sort through your collection looking for all the smallest items , or you can cheat and use parts of larger pieces of pressed flowers or foliage . |
| 22 | PC Andrew Ness , of Tayside Police , told how he had been on the road block looking for another vehicle when a white Cavalier had burst through . |
| 23 | Not much more than that , I think most good ne neighbours look for each other anyway , in fact probably that 's what happens in your street . |
| 24 | Einstein spent the later years of his life looking for such a theory . |
| 25 | Right so , you know , there are those who would teach that Jesus he would die for our sins and he 's forgiven us sins , but only those who come to him , Jesus died for the sin of the whole world , for every man , woman , boy and girl that has ever lived or ever will live , he died for the sin of the whole world , not just for those even who lived after his death , that 's why it talks about in the Old Testament people like Abraham looking for that day , and so Jesus who in , when he died , because he 's eternal , so we 've got the problems with time , God has n't got problems with time , he 's eternal and so his sacrifice , the sacrifice of him on the cross was effective for Abraham as it is for you , it was as effective for David as it was for Paul otherwise Abraham would never of had his sins forgiven because what happened with all the sacrifice with all the little lambs that were killed and all the goats and all the rest they only acted as a covering for sin , did n't take them away , it covered them , what for , until the moment when Jesus would come and would take those sins away and so when you think of David 's sin , his adultery and his murder , how does he get forgiven for that because Jesus died from the cross and he takes upon himself David 's sin and he takes upon him Abraham 's sin and Noah 's sin and Adam 's sin , just as much as your sin and the person who will be born in ten years time their sin also , all our sins er as Gloria just read there from , from one John to two they were all of him he has died for every one , well that 's his humiliation , hurry along quickly now his exhortation , the period from Jesus 's resurrection onward is referred to as to the , as the state of exhortation , now what does that term mean , well as Jesus according to his divine nature has always been , he was always every where , now in his human nature , before , be , sorry it 's not , it 's not on that one , but before he , he came to earth , he was every where , he was God , he was , he was omnia present that means he was every where at the same time , but he takes upon himself he 's su , he 's , he 's human nature and he takes upon himself the limitations and when Jesus is walking down second avenue in , in Jerusalem he 's not in Nazareth that 's why there were times when people came to er , to , to , came rushing out because they heard that Jesus was passing by , see he was n't there resident with them , he passed by , now he 's gone back to heaven and where is he , he 's in heaven , he , er whereabouts , where do you think Jesus is now , that resurrected body that was glorified that has gone back to heaven , where do you think it is |
| 26 | DLT is a safe and powerful tool that will save you hours searching through files and directories looking for those unwanted files to delete . |
| 27 | There is a general objective to look around — not a specific objective to look for some particular thing . |
| 28 | The city of Balboa looks for all the world like a suburban Texas town — it has green lawns of tough-leaved grass , cyclone fences , large split-level houses , young housewives in sunglasses and hair-curlers driving Camaros on their way to the Safeway , American flags — and American troops . |
| 29 | There is a slowly burgeoning market for this type of entertainment , with many music and arts societies looking for such a programme . |
| 30 | Londoners lead the buyers from the south east looking for that cottage with an acre , or the house beside a river or overlooking a rugged coast . |