Example sentences of "[pos pn] quest for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being the sinless character that I am , my quest for a sin has been a long and arduous task ( which started five minutes ago ) . |
| 2 | When Julie Christie , that blonde in Billy Liar , appears as the fashion model of the British-financed Darling ( 1965 ) , Schlesinger remains as distant from his central character , a woman who plays with the emotions of many men and destroys her own happiness by her quest for a good time , as he had from Vic or Billy . |
| 3 | In her latest novel , Jazz , Toni Morrison has dipped back into a time before cross-over , when African-American music was all-black , in her quest for a uniquely black literary language . |
| 4 | Rose , too , in her quest for a dress became money-conscious . |
| 5 | That might encourage more young Britons to stay on at school in their quest for a good job . |
| 6 | The order of the book as laid out is thus merely a façade , disguising a deeper , underlying order , and , in effect , what Cortázar is inviting us to do is to throw off our habitual passiveness , to reject the given and to join him and Oliveira in their quest for a different , more authentic order . |
| 7 | David Currie rattled the bar from 20 yards in the 78th minute as Barnsley stepped up their quest for a point but the Hammers held firm . |
| 8 | The selection board said that Gerstner was the first person they had spoken to when they began their quest for a new chief in January . |
| 9 | The selection board said that Gerstner was the first person they had spoken to when they began their quest for a new chief in January . |
| 10 | For the blacks , too , the war proved an important stage in their quest for a better deal . |
| 11 | " Men were driven by greed and terror " in their quest for a new lord . |
| 12 | Swindon Town still have it all to play for in their quest for a place in the Premier League , but the sounds emanating from this Manchester Road recording studio are enough to frighten the life out of their play-off rivals . |
| 13 | By the close of a wearying second day , England were 19 for nought at the start of their quest for a draw . |
| 14 | The first initiative taken by the government in its quest for a rational means of financially managing public sector higher education was to ask the House of Commons Select Committee on Education , Science and Arts , under the Chairmanship of Christopher Price MP , to examine the matter . |
| 15 | In his quest for a solution to the contra insurgency , Mr Ortega dramatised the situation at the end of October by cancelling a 19-month-old ceasefire and resuming offensive operations . |
| 16 | Tamar thought no more about this conversation and did not ask Stephen whether his quest for a new groom had been successful . |
| 17 | He will not give up his quest for a full cap . ’ |
| 18 | Although he found much to admire in the oriental-megalomaniac architecture of Kim 's Korea or Mao 's China , in his quest for a style suitable for a monumental Bucharest he looked to precedents closer to home . |
| 19 | In his quest for a good time , Reid partied and drank his way through his considerable salary . |
| 20 | His quest for a wife had developed into a national pastime . |
| 21 | After grappling over the course of the novel with his essential nature and that of those around him , he finally renounces his quest for a fixed meaning , a completed story : |
| 22 | However , before we begin to examine multimedia specifically , it is important to our quest for a context for multimedia to get some sense of the size and scope of the information industry more generally . |
| 23 | Let us try another tack in our quest for a definition of complexity , and make use of the mathematical idea of probability . |