Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tired of listening to dolphins squeak , they were searching for new ways to communicate with those obdurate , cloth-eared Earthlings . |
| 2 | that , we went up there as in actual fact we were looking for certain place when er the postcard we had was n't it , was n't the cows given us trouble and we went |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Despite the reported ‘ need to hear the voice of the Führer again ’ , Hitler 's traditional speech on 30 January 1942 , the anniversary of the ‘ seizure of power ’ , left some feelings of disappointment , since people were looking for comforting or encouraging words about the state of the war in the east and not for just another stereotype repetition of the Nazi Party 's glorious history . |
| 5 | A rise in numbers would by itself help to explain why the upper classes were looking for new and wider choice of occupation ; it does not go far towards explaining the popularity of Cîteaux . |
| 6 | ‘ Darling , ’ Arabella had said , ‘ You know that PR firm I did some work for ? I was talking with their boss the other day , and he said they were looking for new blood … ’ |
| 7 | FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects . |
| 8 | A rather higher proportion ( 35 per cent ) treated their job as a " Stop-gap " and were looking for other work [ see Table 4.2 ] . |
| 9 | This fundamentally optimistic interpretation of the world and its mysterious working was contested by the heirs of the Enlightenment of the previous century , who were looking for rational explanations and practical methods of applying them . |
| 10 | In the analysis of linguistic variation , therefore , we were looking for fine details of variation-variation that shows internal patterning within the speech community , but which may have no social meaning for outsiders — and in the first application for funding it was specified that the research was intended to extend the quantitative methodology to a type of community that had not been studied in this way before . |
| 11 | When the authentic medical researchers started to get involved , they were looking for dietary answers to serious illnesses prevalent in Western societies but extremely rare in many less sophisticated communities in the developing world . |
| 12 | Nevertheless by 19 July both sides were looking for foreign help . |
| 13 | The strongest signal of Moscow 's fury with the intransigent Romanian regime came when Pravda , the Communist Party daily newspaper , reported favourably on the demonstrators in Timisoara , saying that they were looking for rapid reforms in the country . |
| 14 | The established family farms were , mostly , already profitable and the farmers were looking for sufficient income to provide their families with a reasonable standard of living plus sufficient capital to re-invest in the farm and provide for retirement . |
| 15 | Did anyone out there , when they saw the movie , realize that they were smoking for real ? |
| 16 | The years before and immediately after the outbreak of World War I in 1914 were unsettling for experimental painters . |
| 17 | And the big fish were heading for deep water . |
| 18 | Those in financial trouble who knew of the money advice services but chose to ignore them , or who were unaware of their existence , and as a result let their indebtedness , once just manageable , become unmanageable , were heading for real trouble . |
| 19 | Some were waiting for spare parts from Cairo , some were waiting on instructions from their owners , some were going downriver . |
| 20 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 21 | He , he , he said that at one point this chap had used the phrase that well that they were going for controlled destabilization from the Health Service . |
| 22 | Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home . |
| 23 | Opposition parties were calling for fresh elections , and criticizing President Slobodan Milosevic for his handling of the military campaign . |
| 24 | Holiday resorts , both inland and coastal , were expanding for new markets . |
| 25 | We did n't know that we were asking for impossible things , because we had never worked in the record business before — and we 'd get them . |
| 26 | ( He advised that this should be done soon , because the wall was badly soaked , and they were asking for dry rot . ) |
| 27 | No market research informed Laura that women were thirsting for long dresses which they could not find . |
| 28 | The song reminded me of my ex-wife , only the group were trying for wistful melancholy and my associations were screaming nightmare . |
| 29 | The UAE was reported to have reacted in a low-key manner to the Iranian takeover , coming as it did at a time when the Gulf states were hoping for improved relations with Iran . |
| 30 | But a young couple with a seven-year-old daughter said they were leaving for good . |