Example sentences of "[noun] look for [adj] " 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 | Peter Scott assesses Perry Anderson 's verdict on English intellectuals ; Tony Parker on Thatcherism 's casualties ; Stephen Howe looks for new life in the unions ; Conor Gearty cross-examines a defender of the Bar ; and Geoff Dyer wades through Ted Hughes ' Shakespearean fantasy |
| 3 | A racing stables looking for warm and healthy bedding for its horses has found the answer in yellow pages … quite literally . |
| 4 | The trouble is that , with the club looking for immediate improved results , it is sometimes difficult to persevere for too long with newcomers . |
| 5 | In this sense the scene is clearly one of hazard problems looking for improved GIS rather than for GIS looking for good problems , as is all too often the case . |
| 6 | At times I had spent hours roaming around pastures looking for poisonous plants but that was pointless with Billings 's calves because they had never been out ; they were mere babies ofa month old . |
| 7 | He is now concentrating on providing M&A services to Japanese clients looking for acquisitions in Europe , Japanese clients looking for domestic acquisitions and European clients looking for Japanese acquisitions . |
| 8 | He is now concentrating on providing M&A services to Japanese clients looking for acquisitions in Europe , Japanese clients looking for domestic acquisitions and European clients looking for Japanese acquisitions . |
| 9 | British manufacturers looking for new product lines are being targeted by former US funeral company director . |
| 10 | In Alpine shops look for wooden cooking utensils , walking sticks and Loden capes . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | And Jesus was going across to the other side to look for this man . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Edward Forbes and Darwin were inspired by Lyell to look for geological changes that would explain the present distribution of species in Europe . |
| 15 | On the second day after Eric 's escape , early in the morning a troop of Germans , accompanied by Fascists , arrived in Fontanellato to look for escaped prisoners . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The only positive aspect is that since it attracts the seediest sort of tourist , it keeps them all in one place like a gigantic concrete fly-paper , and stops them wandering all over the unspoiled parts of the Highlands looking for go-cart tracks and timeshare chalets . |
| 18 | And there are always builders looking for cheap properties to renovate . |
| 19 | Chairman Garry Gibson revealed that Murray had been in touch with a string of top clubs looking for pre-deadline newcomers . |
| 20 | The proactive approach is best suited to identifying strategic acquisitions where a purchaser is prepared to pay a fair price , whereas the reactive approach is more suited to acquirors looking for opportunistic sale situations . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | XEROX 's XSOFT LOOKS FOR BIG BUCKS IN EUROPEAN MARKET |
| 23 | AS IBM LOOKS FOR FURTHER ALLIANCES IN PUSH INTO MERCHANT SEMICONDUCTORS |
| 24 | I would like to let the lady looking for standard gooseberry plants ( Question Time , June ) know how I obtained mine . |
| 25 | While the driver runs his hands along our limbs looking for suspicious objects , Sergeant Kellard stands aside . |
| 26 | While many collectors are turning over every hedge and collective barn they can find within the Russian Republic and its former constituents and satellites for hidden treasures , a small and dedicated band have been scouring the Asia-Pacific region for many decades looking for Japanese material . |
| 27 | Exactly one week after the IRA firebombed a shopping centre police have been back to the scene looking for possible witnesses . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A NEW guide to guest houses in Darlington will be published soon aimed at visitors looking for economic , good accommodation . |
| 30 | Business visitors looking for editorial staff seemed bemused to find themselves in the middle of such a busy and , it has to be said , chatty event . |