Example sentences of "[conj] looking for [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He glanced back as if looking for signs of pursuit . |
| 4 | Peirce had set himself the task of methodically classifying , and looking for applications of , the n-dimensional systems for all |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's why I 'm always encouraging and looking for opportunities for the team . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When looking for solutions of the Ernst equation for stationary axisymmetric space-times , it is appropriate to require that solutions be asymptotically flat . |
| 11 | 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 . |