Example sentences of "[be] looking for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 2 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 3 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 4 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 5 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 6 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 7 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 8 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 9 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 10 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 11 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 12 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 13 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 14 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 15 | Now I am looking for a new start and go on from there . ’ |
| 16 | And can I remind the district planning officers I am looking for a positive contribution from you on Tuesday . |
| 17 | He stormed : ‘ I am looking for a dramatic improvement in our defending . |
| 18 | ‘ Now I have got that first win I am looking for the second . ’ |
| 19 | Says Phil Keer : ‘ I think me and most of my friends are looking for a long term relationship . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't say that you are looking for a gilded mare too ! ’ |
| 21 | If you are looking for a specific topic ( e.g. The Paris Peace Conference ) and it is not listed , you might investigate chapters which appear related ( e.g. " The Resettlement of Europe " or , even more broadly , " The First World War " ) . |
| 22 | Finally , Fellowship Afloat are looking for a new chief sailing instructor . |
| 23 | This can be so useful to anyone looking for a secondary school , especially for the young couple with a growing child who are looking for a new area to move into . |
| 24 | So we are looking for a new name that we shall use for the discs when they are eventually released . |
| 25 | Mary Anne who has been managing this side of things for us is leaving Birmingham and we are looking for a new manager ( see job description on page 6 ) . |
| 26 | If you lack this insight or are looking for a new direction , then Baker can help ( see Recommended reading at the end of this chapter ) . |
| 27 | ‘ We are looking for a new partnership with the LAS and believe that together it is possible to ensure this vital lifeline goes from being the worst in the UK to being the model service . ’ |
| 28 | We are looking for a new custodian of the Society 's money . |
| 29 | Joan Daniels ' term of office expires at the 1987 Annual General Meeting , so we are looking for a new treasurer . |
| 30 | Overall a recommended buy if you are looking for a simple but powerful professional database . |