Example sentences of "[conj] looking for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olwen drove , and evolved a schedule of visiting her numerous girlfriends or looking for bargains in the shops whilst the others pitched the local council or union . |
| 2 | I took messages to the Lord Buckingham , pretending I was delivering suits or looking for trade at his London house . ’ |
| 3 | Rather than looking for deviations from pattern , perhaps one should be looking at the patterns produced by the modes of rationality which agents typically find it conventional to construct . |
| 4 | He glanced back as if looking for signs of pursuit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Peirce had set himself the task of methodically classifying , and looking for applications of , the n-dimensional systems for all |
| 8 | It tells of a butcher returning home empty-handed from a market , and looking for lodgings in a village that lies on his route homewards as it is too late at night for him to reach home . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's why I 'm always encouraging and looking for opportunities for the team . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , she was never able really to influence developments in the way that Britain should , by being right in the middle of events , and being seen as a joint , willing partner in Europe — not a country that is always ducking and diving and looking for ways of putting party and even narrow national interests before those of the wider European concept . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He said the gear , similar to that used for sub-surface profiling while looking for echoes during North Sea exploration , is sitting unused in a laboratory . |
| 13 | Next in importance would come the discovery in 1964 of the cosmic background itself , by two scientists from the US Bell Labs , Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson , who stumbled on it while looking for ways of eliminating noise in radio receivers . |
| 14 | When looking for solutions of the Ernst equation for stationary axisymmetric space-times , it is appropriate to require that solutions be asymptotically flat . |
| 15 | As well as looking for associations between the degree of volatility of operations and the use of temporary workers , we were able to consider a number of performance indicators for establishments . |