Example sentences of "[noun pl] look for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A racing stables looking for warm and healthy bedding for its horses has found the answer in yellow pages … quite literally . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | British manufacturers looking for new product lines are being targeted by former US funeral company director . |
| 7 | In Alpine shops look for wooden cooking utensils , walking sticks and Loden capes . |
| 8 | And there are always builders looking for cheap properties to renovate . |
| 9 | Chairman Garry Gibson revealed that Murray had been in touch with a string of top clubs looking for pre-deadline newcomers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | While the driver runs his hands along our limbs looking for suspicious objects , Sergeant Kellard stands aside . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A NEW guide to guest houses in Darlington will be published soon aimed at visitors looking for economic , good accommodation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This will alternate between contracts put out to tender and listing companies looking for joint ventures , partners , distributors , agents and so on . |
| 16 | WHO are more preposterous : the developers marching round southern England drawing up plans to turn some of the world 's most pleasing countryside into toytown suburbs ; or the nouveau-rural Volvo commuters looking for trendy ways to stop them ? |
| 17 | There were very few well-dressed citizens , most of the denizens of the alleyways being rogues and villains ; tinkers , trying to sell without permission from the Guilds , professional beggars , and rat-faced slum dwellers looking for easy prey . |
| 18 | She scoured the streets in the poorer areas looking for likely candidates and then , knowing the reality of poverty , taught them the rules of hygiene in her own way , which the Girls would imitate and laugh at behind her back . |
| 19 | In areas where the population is relatively small and thinly-spread , fieldworkers looking for new sites may well discover ruins and large monuments , such as burial mounds , hillforts , and rock paintings that were previously unknown . |
| 20 | Software companies look for specific films to translate into games such as sci-fi thriller Robocop . |
| 21 | Among water groups look for good figures from Yorkshire Water , up 17% to £75m helped by a one-off asset sale . |
| 22 | And that tuned in well with my inclinations to look for formal qualities and make more or less abstract patterns out of nature . |
| 23 | They have yet to establish a track record of resale value , and buyers looking for sound investments may prefer to play safe and buy equivalent Persian or Anatolian rugs . |
| 24 | The problems arise , he says , when neglect and deprivation of children leads to violent behaviour , or when values are imposed in an authoritarian way , as can be convenient for governments looking for quick answers to youth disaffection . |
| 25 | Banking in particular , seems particularly susceptible to failures in foreign markets caused by reactive pressures — much of the Third World debt problems can be traced to banks looking for easy foreign expansion routes when faced by lack of growth in domestic markets . |
| 26 | In America , once managers make an offer for their company , the independent directors hire investment banks to look for other potential buyers . |
| 27 | Disillusionment with the way they are treated by their firms has led many trainees , along with more experienced dealers to look for new jobs . |
| 28 | Newcastle looked better in the second half , slogging their way forward in the heavy conditions looking for agoal . |
| 29 | It could become a money spinner for farmers looking for alternative crops in the face of expected cutbacks in EC farm support prices . |
| 30 | 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 . |