Example sentences of "to look for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift . |
| 2 | We told the child that there was a chocolate in one of the boxes and that he had to point to one of them — guessing of course — to tell the experimenter where to look for the chocolate . |
| 3 | They are particularly concerned to look for the policy and party political consequences of events and policies . |
| 4 | He knew exactly where to look for the nest of any bird we were likely to come across and by certain local circumstances was unerringly guided to a nest hidden deep perhaps in a thorn bush … . |
| 5 | At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor . |
| 6 | ‘ He chose to look for the spiritual through the physical , like Rimbaud and Kerouac . |
| 7 | Devotees of Pevsner know , on opening a volume of The Buildings of England , to look for the section headed ‘ Perambulation ’ for whichever town or village in which they happen to find themselves . |
| 8 | On the fish pond side , be sure to look for the small Neo-Classical temple , the work of Luigi Cagnola . |
| 9 | The best place to look for the substantive law relating to citizenship is not under ‘ citizenship ’ in law books . |
| 10 | For US television , on the other hand , competition for the same audience within the same time-slot drives producers and planners to look for the new exploitation angle which will differentiate their product within the market , propelling genres and conventions along the track of transformation and mutation . |
| 11 | But with a few well-chosen books you can know where to look for the information you need . |
| 12 | Now what happens in the mantle is extremely important , because it is in the mantle that we have to look for the mechanism behind Plate Tectonics . |
| 13 | Our eyes seek out the inhabitants fleeing distracted , or returning to look for the dead . |
| 14 | The ASP rule-book asked the judges to look for the most radical manoeuvres in the most critical section of the wave ( that is , nearest the curl ) . |
| 15 | But even if we tend to look for the scholarly , non-involved biography of the great man or woman we can not be sure that the work will be beyond criticism . |
| 16 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 17 | Their technique is to look for the process known as ‘ inverse beta decay ’ , in which an electron- anti neutrino reacts with a proton to produce a positron ( positive electron ) and a neutron . |
| 18 | ‘ There are thousands of traits all with different intensities of selection — you have to look for the critical ones-for Lovejoy and Latimer that means the joints of the knee and hip , not the hands and feet . |
| 19 | We split up , with members of the task force , to look for the elephants , each small group of searchers gathering a large following from the children of the transmigrasi along the way . |
| 20 | A better approach seems to be to look for the research with prospects of being revolutionary , that is of establishing a new framework , or deriving new bandwagons . |
| 21 | We learned to look for the black tongue , water that would take us between rocks . |
| 22 | Allen climbed a tall ash tree to look for the stream . |
| 23 | Whatever their own political persuasions , journalists tend to look for the most interesting outcome of any given set of circumstances . |
| 24 | Searchers were called out to look for the overdue hikers , and spotting their torches in the distance Alistair used his camera flash to attract their attention . |
| 25 | Observers sent to look for the men came under heavy fire , seriously injuring a French officer . |
| 26 | If one wants to look for the origins of conflict in modern America , one could do worse than line up the eighteenth-century Puritans against the Enlightenment men : say , Jonathan Edwards ( 1703–1758 ) , Samuel Davies ( 1723–1761 ) and Timothy Dwight ( 1752–1817 ) versus Benjamin Franklin ( 1706–1790 ) , Thomas Jefferson ( 1743–1826 ) , Thomas Paine ( 1737–1809 ) and James Madison ( 1751–1836 ) . |
| 27 | However , before the electron microscope was available , in fact in 1937 , Andrade and Tsien decided to look for the cracks by the method of decoration , using of course an optical microscope . |
| 28 | To answer this they brought the sodium iodide detector over to look for the tell-tale gamma rays . |
| 29 | We just had to look for the Motor Caravan Construction Code symbol . |
| 30 | ‘ I like to look for the distinctive features of a location , features that we can key into to get a synergy of strengths , ’ she says . |