Example sentences of "[vb pp] look for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 2 | They are taught to look for the common signs of preparation that precede offences . |
| 3 | Meredith was surprised he always had to look for a hidden motive . |
| 4 | When everything around you is just plain bloody crazy , you 've got to look for the crazy answers . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd stayed to look for the aristocratic drop-out . |
| 6 | Too much energy can be spent looking for the perfect idea when being pragmatic and settling for a satisfactory solution is best . |
| 7 | His activities in the Peloponnese may have been provocatively anti-Spartan ( p. 25 ) ; in any event , he was forced to look for a permanent home in the king 's Asia . |
| 8 | If any ambiguity remained , either because multiple readings survived or because some anaphor had several surviving candidates , common sense inference rules were invoked to look for a causal or other link between a proposition in the current sentence and one in an earlier one . |
| 9 | You 'll be tempted to look for the hidden catch or create difficulties to solve , just because you 're so much in the habit of worrying . |
| 10 | The United manager would be better advised looking for a short-term solution while his troops re-form and Dion Dublin , their £1 million signing from Cambridge United — is nursed back into the team . |
| 11 | Ferried looking for the foreign boys wherever they turn up . |
| 12 | If the kitchen is nearly or directly below your bedroom , or if you live in a flat , you 'd be well advised to look for a quiet machine . |