Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon are looking for their third consecutive win . |
| 2 | Nottinghamshire are looking for their first win in a one-day competition at Trent Bridge this season . |
| 3 | PVG is looking for like-minded parties . |
| 4 | David is looking for somewhere to put his croquet club . |
| 5 | To strengthen its position , Taiwan is looking for support abroad . |
| 6 | NEC is looking for sales of 30,000 units of the five new models over the next two years . |
| 7 | Now , everyone confronts the same challenge , and Mr Lang is looking for consensus . |
| 8 | DRI/McGraw-Hill is looking for an individual to join its sales and support team in its London office . |
| 9 | And on the other hand , a gorilla in a Top Shop suit called Nevil was looking for me , though he had n't bargained for Lisabeth 's own version of the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme . |
| 10 | When the young Alfred Hitchcock was looking for a studio in which to learn the craft of filmmaking , it never occurred to him to knock at the doors of Samuelson 's Worton Hall or Stoll at Cricklewood . |
| 11 | At the time , Dustin was looking for a role that attracted him . |
| 12 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ It emerged that David was looking for somewhere to live . |
| 13 | What Branson was looking for was nothing short of government protection . |
| 14 | Corbett was looking for a suitable place as the crowd began to disperse when Benstede returned , accompanied by a thin , stooping figure with watery eyes , a drinker 's red nose and a wispy beard . |
| 15 | COLLEGE bosses in Bootle are looking for people to train as English teachers . |
| 16 | Analysts at Paribas are looking for a loss in 1993 of £25.6m ( FF210m ) including management fees owed to Walt Disney . |
| 17 | The French , for their part , were interested only in American help to achieve some honourable compromise in Indo-China , whereas the militants in Washington were looking for combined military action to inflict a decisive defeat on the communists . |
| 18 | Against that , coach Ian McGeechan would contend that the captain deserved no small measure of credit for the way Scotland refused to buckle , actually winning the last quarter when all England were looking for a scoring holocaust . |
| 19 | If North Korea is looking for a way out of its nuclear predicament , and a way back into the NPT , China could offer to do what America once did for Taiwan : persuade it to give up its nuclear moonlighting , and take charge of any offending materials and bomb bits . |
| 20 | Now Ray 's looking for people who 'd like to foster some of them . |
| 21 | But among the oldies who have given the project their support are Malcolm McLaren and Elvis Costello , which suggests that the ENO is looking for something a little off the beaten operatic track , not to say strange and unusual . |
| 22 | Brenda is looking for a computer at the moment . |
| 23 | Director Ken Loach was looking for someone to play the mother in his award-winning film Kes . |
| 24 | What the CNAA was looking for , therefore , was evidence of a changed organizational and administrative environment , an academic machinery that could exercise responsibility for the continuing scrutiny and health of courses , and this was particularly important in the case of the newly-designed polytechnics , given the emphasis on academic boards and ‘ a large measure of autonomy ’ for institutions under their governing bodies in the government 's 1967 statement on polytechnics . |
| 25 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 26 | The idea evolved when producer Ned Sherrin was looking for a sequel to That Was the Week That Was , the irreverent series that dared to poke fun at the Establishment and made stars of David Frost , Roy Kinnear , William Rushton , Eleanor Bron and Millicent Martin . |
| 27 | Sampras , meanwhile , was planning to talk with Tom 's twin brother , Tim , who has been working with Eliot Teltscher and , although nothing had been settled at the time of writing , Andrew Agassi was looking for a coach who could help him improve what he knows remains a fundamental weakness in his game — his serve . |
| 28 | Midland Air Museum at Coventry are looking for a good home for the fuselage and other components of Messenger IV VP-KJL . |
| 29 | Police in the Wear Valley are looking for thieves who have struck in a number of gardens and stolen ornamental garden furniture . |
| 30 | — THE organisers of National Music Day are looking for clubs to help make the occasion a big success . |