Example sentences of "[noun] be look [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Increasingly , employers are looking for higher levels of skills .
2 The 22 NorthEast Rotaract Clubs are looking for worthwhile charities to support in their September fund-raising week .
3 There are farmers who with the existing lack of any political support are looking at different avenues to improve their profits or even make a profit .
4 Oxford University are looking in good shape for Sunday 's womens boat race .
5 ‘ Previously the large , prairie-style farms tended to go for big , American-style equipment , but the new , smaller units are looking for smaller new or used European-sized implements .
6 Particularly acute problems appear to be found in the area of raising seed-corn capital ( pre start-up capital , less than £250,000 , the riskiest type of venture capital ) and that venture funds are looking for shorter term returns ( BEQB 1990 ) .
7 Other aspects are looked at such as packaging food and irradiation interactions .
8 When speakers are looking for different ways of accomplishing the same goal ( in Coveney 's example , successfully requesting information ) they are not limited to the various possibilities in the linguistic system for constructing formal interrogatives .
9 Tory backbenchers are looking for strong measures to boost the economy and hope a one per cent cut in interest rates will cushion predicted cutbacks in public spending .
10 To the extent that he went further so as to suggest that in no circumstances could the speeches be looked at other than for the purposes of seeing what was said on a particular date , his remarks have to be understood in the context of the issues which arose in that case .
11 The latter two conditions proved severe stumbling blocks such that the Norwegians were looking towards alternative means of marketing their hydrocarbon reserves to keep up the revenues to which the Norwegian economy has grown accustomed , well before the Sleipner deal was called off .
12 Manufacturers were looking at different techniques in an effort to beat off their rivals .
13 Claire and Kezia were looking at each other and saying nothing .
14 THE Northern Ireland School 's Football Association is looking for talented young players for the coming international season .
15 PVG is looking for like-minded parties .
16 A more satisfactory way of delimiting lexical units is to look for grammatical differences which correlate with differences of meaning .
17 The object of the research is to look at corporate strategy and structure in the aerospace and airline sectors using a recently developed analytical technique , synergy mapping .
18 The purpose of this chapter is to look at some of the parables found in these four sources .
19 The easiest way to understand the nature and extent of this type of crime is to look at some examples of the effect of specific corporate crimes .
20 As there is no confidence in the supply of milk , the dairy processing industry is looking for new ways of selling dairy products .
21 Rugby club chairman John Redmayne said the club was looking at alternative sites .
22 But already the 11.54 was steaming into the station , and Perks was looking in all the windows .
23 Mr Hely Hutchinson said that Headline was looking for UK-based acquisitions that offered quality and enhanced shareholder value .
24 Will he bear in mind the fact that many eastern European countries are looking to this country as a possible dumping ground and they produce their goods with wages of about 20p an hour ?
25 County planners are looking at two fields near Watchfield .
26 The operation went smoothly and Catering Managers Ian Cameron and John Dunn are now looking after 350 persons on board the Safe Holmia rising to 440 at peak , whilst on the Port Royal , John Turner and Ian Ross are looking after 175 people .
27 The French , for their part , were interested only in American help to achieve some honourable compromise in Indo-China , whereas the militants in Washington were looking for combined military action to inflict a decisive defeat on the communists .
28 Only last autumn big life insurance companies were looking at net losses on their long-term shareholdings .
29 XSoft is looking for high-volume distribution and has cut deals with Qualix Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc to provide the software free of charge for an initial 30-day trial basis .
30 The village show committee is looking for new recruits .
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