Example sentences of "[noun sg] look for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the recommendation of a 1958 report from the Commons Select Committee on Estimates , a technocratic team had been commissioned to build on the forward looks for social-service and defence spending pioneered by the Treasury in the mid-fifties . |
| 2 | When the examiner picks up your script to look for question 5 , for example , he ought to be able to open the book at roughly the right place and find question 5 . |
| 3 | Opening her purse to look for change , she crossed the road to the phone box . |
| 4 | At Hambro Life Assurance new staff moving from rented property to rented property receive : the cost of moving to the new area and a disturbance allowance at the company 's expense to look for accommodation . |
| 5 | For new recruits who are selling their old property and are buying a new home , Hambro Life pays : the cost of moving to the new area ; a disturbance allowance of one month 's salary ( half paid when the employee joins the firm , the balance when the sale and purchase are completed ) ; two weekends at the company 's expense to look for accommodation ; estate agents ' , surveyors ' , building society and legal fees , including stamp duty and an allowance of £150 per month towards the cost of accommodation and/or fares for a maximum period of three months . |
| 6 | Drawn in the deeper water upstream of the suspension bridge on the Groves section and facing the boathouse , Winston used a small swimfeeder rig looking for fall-back bites on double maggot from the dace and roach . |
| 7 | When a prospect comes to the stand looking for literature , this should be an ideal opportunity for the salesperson to establish contact and obtain details of the prospect . |
| 8 | The Wallabies had an early morning departure so Ofahengaue returned to the hotel at 4.30a.m. — only to find St George officials waiting in a car in the hotel car park looking for Ofahengaue to return . |
| 9 | The very next week an advertisement came round the office from Scottish Overseas Health Support looking for nurse teachers to go out to Saudi Arabia to set up a training programme for dental hygienists , medical records officers and ( you 've guessed it ) nurses , CAUGHT ! ! |
| 10 | I again spent most of the afternoon looking for gaunt-face , coming in the end to the conclusion that whatever he was doing on the train he was n't travelling because of an overpowering interest in racing . |
| 11 | She could follow the shoreline all the way to where they had pulled up that afternoon looking for shelter , but that would take hours . |
| 12 | Curtius Kenne was staring at Jessamyn as if Jesus H. Christ himself had ridden into town on a donkey , walked into the bar looking for trouble , and kicked him in the gazebos with steel-spiked sandals . |
| 13 | ‘ They left furs , stereos and other valuables but made a terrible mess looking for cash and jewels , especially in the bedrooms . |
| 14 | SUN LOOKING FOR HOME FOR HYPERSPARC |
| 15 | He did n't like people watching his horses work from the road but this was only a woman , probably some jumped-up point-to-point type looking for training tips . |
| 16 | The Rector , the Squire and the schoolmaster were the respected members of the community to whom the village looked for advice and help . |
| 17 | Madra helped Ratagan with the fire , and when Riven had done the best he could with his ripped clothing he wandered about the campsite looking for firewood . |
| 18 | I lived in the Department of Sonsonate but we went all over the place looking for work . |
| 19 | Of course , if two members of staff happen to fall in love and decide to marry , it would be churlish to be apportioning blame ; but what I find a major irritation are those persons — and housekeepers are particularly guilty here — who have no genuine commitment to their profession and who are essentially going from post to post looking for romance . |
| 20 | Flynn said , ‘ Come on , we 'll get him , ’ and so we spent a whole evening looking for Fidler . |
| 21 | This is a position which requires the researcher to adopt a false role , for example , pretending to be an author looking for atmosphere for a book or pretending to be a management trainee with a firm . |
| 22 | In my home in Wales last week , I paced back and forth over the flagstones , my aerial before me , like a dowser looking for water . |
| 23 | When Andrew returned to Dartmoor he rode out to High Tor to look for Topaz . |
| 24 | None of the changes had given him any added zest for life — or , for that matter , any desire to look for trouble where no trouble was self-evidently present . |
| 25 | The government could also be tougher on benefits for invalidity and long-term sickness , whose claimants have multiplied even though national health has improved , and on payments to lone parents , who have too little incentive to look for work once their children reach school age . |
| 26 | In the changing conceptual frame inside which a science progresses , it would be as out of place to look for progress as in the styles of an art . |
| 27 | This scanner looks for trigger points . |
| 28 | In a way , the three of them were like moles , digging their way to the surface looking for freedom , coincidentally at the same time that counter-culture was doing the same and searching for heroes . |
| 29 | It has a horizontal division across its pupil which effectively gives it four eyes — the two lower halves for seeing underwater , the two upper for doing so in air — and the fish can swim along the surface looking for food above and below it at the same time . |
| 30 | Van den Boogard suggested that in the Anglo-Norman fabliaux the author assumes what he calles the persona of the clerk , i.e. a character looking for respect and admiration for his ability to tell a fascinating tale of intrigue ( inter alia ) , whereas a French author is more likely to adopt the persona of the jongleur , shocking by his anarchism but amusing at the same time through his self-mockery . |