Example sentences of "[coord] look for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In terms of availability on the labour market , then , 93 per cent of conversion students were in work , waiting to start work , or looking for work .
2 The supply of exotic animals for dissection was of great importance to anatomists hoping to make their name through exciting discoveries or looking for ammunition to use in theoretical debates .
3 The latter are not exclusively practical in the sense of always utilizing apparatus , but instead might include tasks such as reading tabular data or looking for number patterns .
4 I took messages to the Lord Buckingham , pretending I was delivering suits or looking for trade at his London house . ’
5 Genetic monitoring regularly assesses workers for cytogenetic damage — major changes to chromosomes — or may apply other , less perfected , tests that locate mutagens in body fluids or look for damage to individual genes .
6 A majority of Gujerati women , particularly those from East Africa , do work or look for work outside the home .
7 They have all gone off to work or to look for work , leaving behind the old , the disabled , the women and the children .
8 Ipswich man of the match Bryn Kerr is tackled and looks for support from flanker James Bisdee .
9 Some of the gentry in South Wales also had Jacobite leanings , and looked for leadership to Lewis Pryse of Aberystwyth and the Duke of Beaufort .
10 A useful way of developing creative thinking and one which can be of great benefit when you are studying and looking for inspiration is the technique of key words or key terms .
11 A poet might be attached to a household , or , increasingly , be dependent on travelling between households , performing his work and looking for hospitality and support .
12 It strikes me that Glamorgan have left themselves with another internal problem they could have done without now they are rebuilding and looking for stability after those years of committee trauma and musical chairs among the skippers .
13 Of course there are humdrum jobs to be done like pasting things on boards and looking for scrap art from magazines to use in rough layouts .
14 From Table 4.1 it can be seen that almost one-third of IT postgraduates would be unemployed and looking for work at the end of their course .
15 We have spent some passionate evenings together changing traveller 's cheques and looking for medicine to cure stomach disorders .
16 Here is the appalling Bliss family in their anyone-for-tennis country home : actress mother , artistic father , precocious children — all of them vain and selfish and looking for amusement and romantic intrigue from their weekend guests .
17 The general rules on Hering 's law of cure and looking for improvement in well-being still applies but it is necessary to take into account pathological tissues change .
18 We will carry out pilot projects for the ‘ foyer ’ concept , whereby young people are given a place in a hostel if in exchange they give a commitment to train and look for work .
19 And you 'd got to go and look for work .
20 Of course we hope that Dounreay will diversify and look for work outside nuclear tasks , especially in the area of alternative and renewable energies ; but we all know that the fast reactor programme will cease in 1994 and I do not think it right that , as a matter of policy , the hon. Lady should seek to shut off the work going on there to reprocess nuclear fuel .
21 They arranged to separate and look for Mould and Mcduff to help them .
22 And before those following could rein in and look for cover , or dismount and string their bows , or drive headlong into the trees from which their death was launched , the second volley followed the first .
23 And it looks as if this behaviour is all about encouraging the ducklings to erm , go off on their own , as it were an and to start to run off and look for food .
24 Is there a tendency for you as a journalist , though , to go and look for information in other sources if you possibly can , to do
25 Buy pillows and duvets with synthetic fillings , and look for bedding covered in Gore-tex ( Slumberland Medicare , tel : 061–628 5293 ) .
26 Let us look at the end of the stalk and look for colour and pattern .
27 If you feel constantly anxious and frightened about food , if you can not take pleasure in eating or in your body , if you know deep down that something is wrong , then it is irrelevant what you weigh or whether your immediate health is at risk ; you should take yourself and your feelings seriously , and look for help .
28 An alternative and equally fruitful approach to the study of power in organizations is to concentrate on the formal structure of authority and look for correspondence between this and patterns of social relations within the type of society in which the organization is located .
29 He urged the unemployed of the north to ‘ get on your bike ’ and look for work , as his window-cleaner father had done in the thirties .
30 When astronauts voyage to distant planets and look for life , they can expect to find creatures too strange and unearthly for us to imagine .
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