Example sentences of "[was/were] look for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were looking for a record deal , I would be pursuing individual A&R people , getting them to come and see my band . |
| 2 | McLeish thanked him , scrambled up the embankment , drawing in deep breaths , and walked carefully down the side of the track in the sizeable footsteps of his squad , explaining to them that they were looking for a sharp-edged weapon . |
| 3 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |
| 4 | The Labour Department said the figures were in line with economists ' forecasts , but many were looking for a modest reduction . |
| 5 | IF JEFFREY Archer were looking for a plot for his next novel , he could do worse than examine the rise and rise of Mr John Major 's first female Cabinet ministers , Mrs Virginia Bottomley and Mrs Gillian Shephard . |
| 6 | In middle age , at a time when those in other industries were looking for a period of consolidation , the farmer could be faced with problems when a son or daughter ‘ came home ’ . |
| 7 | When Félicie Cendrars saw them again Jeanne and Modi were looking for a reliable wet-nurse , since neither she nor her mother ‘ could do anything with little Jeanne . |
| 8 | After all , you were looking for a language — Marcus , what is it ? ’ |
| 9 | Interpol , at the time of writing , were looking for a Norfolk widow regarding their enquiries into the death of her husband . |
| 10 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 11 | If I were looking for a fault with the conception of the series , it could only be that it lacks a single volume overview of the whole of the development of quantum theory , a volume concentrating on the broad sweep of ideas and leaving out the mathematical detail . |
| 12 | These were not necessarily the shy or reserved ones , who were quite likely to be snapped up by ‘ parents ’ who were looking for a quiet life . |
| 13 | The organisers were looking for a nurse who could show how her work — both before and after the changes brought in with the New Contract — had helped her patients . |
| 14 | If you were thinking of herbaceous plants , good ones to try are Iris unguicularis and Helleborus niger , if you were looking for a shrub , I would suggest Chimonanthus praecox , or winter sweet ; Lonicera fragrantissima , one of the hammelis , perhaps H. mollis , H. intermedia or H. japonica , or Viburnum x bodnantense . |
| 15 | I joined one band because they were playing at the Marquee , and at that gig I was spotted by Girlschool , who were looking for a guitarist . |
| 16 | IF you were looking for a local Pillar of Society , you did not need to seek further than Brian Courtenay . |
| 17 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 18 | The police were looking for a Pat and Jim , said Nicky , and here was Pat admitting that he and his friend Jim were in the general area of the crime at roughly the time it was committed . |
| 19 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 20 | Muriel , probably because of her years and the fact they were looking for a more mature person , was by a hair 's breadth the front-runner , ahead of two younger girls both with experience of the insurance business . |
| 21 | Our judges were looking for a healthy shine , superb condition and fabulous movement and after much deliberation , Louisa Nicholson was chosen as overall winner . |
| 22 | ‘ If you were looking for a real boost to the industry then these first 10 days should have been much better , ’ said a City analyst . |
| 23 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 24 | President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine denied Tory MPs were looking for a new leader , saying : ‘ We know that so long as we keep our nerve and pursue policies that are important we can come through . |
| 25 | We were looking for a bird in brown and white breeding plumage . |
| 26 | The Defa studios in the East Berlin suburb of Badelsburg are no longer the crumbling , work-shy , institutionalized dump they were two years ago when we began this project and were looking for a home for it . |
| 27 | Their initial abuse would give way to laughter when they understood we were looking for a prahu which would carry us eastwards . |
| 28 | We were looking for a big house in Southampton . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Microsoft ( who , incidentally , were then engaged in legal battle with Apple ) had bought a PostScript clone vendor , Bauer Technologies , and were looking for a font technology for OS/2 's Presentation Manager . |
| 30 | We were looking for a good flavour and meaty texture . |