Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the search for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer lay not in trying to play down the search for glory in war , but in channelling these energies towards the service of the king who represented the public good and honour of a nation or people . |
| 2 | Secondly , and perhaps inevitably arising out of the first situation , the young adult who joins the sub-culture of deafness and uses sign language has , in the community 's eyes , given up the search for sameness and therefore society 's help comes in a ‘ care for the disabled ’ package . |
| 3 | An ASEAN statement issued on July 23 ( the day before the start of the annual Foreign Ministers ' meeting in Indonesia — see p. 37613 ) stated that the representation of Cambodia at the UN was " a delicate political question " and that attempts to change the seating in the absence of an acceptable Supreme National Council would set back the search for a comprehensive political solution . |
| 4 | The US decision was criticized by ASEAN in a final communiqué which stated that " attempts to change the [ UN ] representation of Cambodia at this time … would set back the search for a comprehensive political solution to the problem " . |
| 5 | Retreating from press and other media distractions , they set about the search for the single . |
| 6 | After that they are free to carry out the search for their birth parents . |
| 7 | Police have scaled down the search for a multiple rapist saying they 've no new leads to follow . |
| 8 | Police have scaled down the search for a man who commited at least two rapes , because they have no other leads to follow . |
| 9 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 10 | It was stated above that full indexing — knowing the position of a record on a track — is seldom useful , because it does not usually speed up the search for that record . |
| 11 | The routine never varied … road blocks if the kidnapping was reported immediately , helicopters , dogs , inform the Substitute Prosecutor , set up the search for the base-man , the wait for the first communication . |