Example sentences of "[verb] look for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OSF LOOKING FOR SCALABLE TECHNOLOGY |
| 2 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 3 | She has to look for new friends amongst the ranks of the unattached like herself ; and until she has recovered sufficiently to become interested in organising her social life to the best advantage , her opportunities to continue to enjoy the pleasures of mixed company may be very limited . |
| 4 | Cath does not have this excuse ; she has to look for another . |
| 5 | On May 1 a Croat was shot dead in the mainly Serbian village of Brsadin ( near Vukovar ) , and on May 2 shooting began when a group of Croatian policemen entered Borovo Selo near Vukovar to look for three missing colleagues . |
| 6 | Your reasons for this colossal exploitation of what is to you hi-tech may be quite divorced from ours ( we want to look for black holes , whereas you want to ascertain the precise time you should sacrifice a virgin in order to propitiate the gods ) , but the principle is much the same . |
| 7 | He also starts to look for blemished fruit . |
| 8 | He starts to look for human girls to fuck , |
| 9 | If current cultivars do not adapt , breeders may need to look for new varieties which cope better with milder winters . |
| 10 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 11 | Generally , though , they are credited with believing , like the rest of us , that life is too short to go looking for unnecessary trouble . |
| 12 | ‘ There was no need to think she 'd noticed anything , and whoever he was , he was n't mad enough to go looking for extra murders . |
| 13 | Clarissa kindly offered him first bath — if he promised not to go looking for pretty Mosleyites , but Charles smiled and shook his head . |
| 14 | It may well force you to go looking for more information about your potential audience . |
| 15 | He got one against Swindon last season and ca n't wait to go looking for more in the Premier League . |
| 16 | Much archaeology involves looking for underlying patterns within a jumble of visual detail . |
| 17 | LDP therefore decided to look for another manufacturer to supply its Axminster . |
| 18 | What will he do look for another or |
| 19 | In this chapter an attempt will be made to look for possible links and conflicts between accounting and the strategic analysis of chapter 4 . |
| 20 | The machine can be made to look for common letter groups and then display them , massively magnified , together on the screen , helping a human expert to decide if they match . |
| 21 | ‘ You do n't want to look for another ? ’ |
| 22 | Following the discovery of HIV , tests were developed to look for specific HIV antibodies . |
| 23 | This transmission of culture is aided by the tendency to recruit in ‘ one 's own image ’ where members of interview panels tend to look for similar qualities that they themselves possess when recruiting new members . |
| 24 | Broad-front exploration is expensive and tedious so we tend to look for some key factor that will simplify the task . |
| 25 | Women tend to look for three to four things , your shoes , your fingernails , ties and socks , okay so make sure you look the part . |
| 26 | The hope is that it could be possible to agree to look for alternative possibilities for Mrs Falconer . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It means , simply , that I intend to look for another job . ’ |
| 28 | Staff may , therefore , begin looking for alternative employment in the local area so that they will not be forced to make the choice of a job with their employer or no job at all . |
| 29 | We have already closed sites which have become yesterday 's plants serving yesterday 's needs and we 'll keep looking for other areas of adjustment . |
| 30 | I will however keep looking for more info . |