Example sentences of "[prep] looking for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | Thus I am dangerously near looking for the ready made composition that has been done to death by generations of landscape painters . |
| 3 | There is a joy in looking for the kindly and generous action in the daily round ; a kindly smile from some ordinary person whose responses have not been blighted by desire or greed or envy . |
| 4 | While he persists in looking for the golden egg before the chicken is even hatched the terrorists will continue to exact a mounting price in blood for his dithering approach to security . |
| 5 | Vivien is not alone in thinking that the European professionals are making a mistake in looking for the same privileges and superstar treatment that is nowadays meted out to their American sisters . |
| 6 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |
| 7 | In the first of a new series Peter Partington shows how to draw birds by looking for the essential scaffolding of shapes on which to build form and detail |
| 8 | And now you can easily spot the best quality Scottish salmon by looking for the tartan Brand Quality Mark . |
| 9 | The way I have phrased this criterion implies that we should begin by looking for the biochemical and cellular changes and then on this basis seek the neurophysiological ones , and that in some way the neurophysiology is a mere incidental product of the biochemical and structural changes . |