Example sentences of "looking [prep] different " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly different employers will be looking for different things in group interviews . |
| 2 | Because papers and cards do not move about , and also accept adhesives easily , they are much easier to work on than fabric , and so are perfect for beginners , as well as anyone looking for different and unusual effects . |
| 3 | Instead of looking for different relations in different contexts to prove ambiguity , one may adduce sameness of relations as evidence of generality . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Prehistorians have rationalised this recently in the absence of documentary evidence by looking for different ‘ activity areas ’ within settlements and such concepts as food processing , craft areas , food storage areas , etc. could usefully be developed for sites in the historical period . |
| 6 | The world 's great religions are even more notorious for simultaneously looking in different directions . |
| 7 | IBM is now looking at different materials and working on the many technical problems of writing on , and reading , the memory . |
| 8 | You can spend hours browsing through shops looking at different fabrics , but as well as considering rolls of material do n't forget to sort through remnants . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Manufacturers were looking at different techniques in an effort to beat off their rivals . |
| 11 | ‘ Well ’ — I hated myself for responding to his interest — ‘ we were looking at different kinds of organisational hierarchy and how to construct optimal decision-making procedures in corporate contexts . ’ |
| 12 | You must be looking at different patients |
| 13 | It was n't intended to duplicate , the work of the tenants ' association , it was it was looking at different kinds of of issues . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Looking at different sorts of writing materials : papyrus , parchment , paper , inscriptions on stone , Roman inscriptions . |
| 15 | Looking at different parts of the tropical world , it has been noted that by 1981 only 20% of all rain forests including tropical ones in Australia remained when compared with the total at European settlement ( 1788 ) and that there were only a few thousand ha left in northern Queensland , all accessible forest outside National Parks having been ( or likely to be ) logged , leaving an archipelago of ‘ refugia ’ . |
| 16 | At the present day a large survey that was carried out by East Sussex County Council in the nineteen seventies , mostly looking at different maps of different ages and the position of the coast on different maps , showed that the average rate of erosion is between point three and point five metres per year . |
| 17 | Thank you chair , erm many of you will perhaps know that the health authority did some pioneering work looking at different standard mortality ratios in different wards in Oxfordshire , and came up with some rather disturbing evidence that some of the wards had significantly higher incidents of death for people primarily in the forty-five to sixty-four age range than others , and Phil and myself wish to continue that work by targeting those wards with a range of measures designed to alleviate some of those health inequalities . |