Example sentences of "search for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent critic complained about the ‘ clichés , the daft , ghosted ‘ star names ’ columns , the silly photos ( remember Ian Botham as ‘ Rambo ’ ? ) , the creation of heroes and villains , the concentration on the star or the result of the moment , the search for conflict , the trivialization of sporting women , the insularity ( beyond Dover , forget it ) , the emphasis on spectating rather than participating , the dearth of analysis , the marginal treatment of those who do n't quite ‘ make it ’ . |
| 2 | the young adult oscillates wildly between the extremes of omnipotence and impotence in a search for competence . |
| 3 | What had started with Jones as a search for muon catalysed fusion , then theory on piezonuclear fusion in his paper with van Sieclen and with Palmer as a puzzle about the gases emitting from volcanoes , was now turning into a search for entirely new routes to fusion . |
| 4 | Particularly where the subject is a plural personal pronoun no variation seems to be permitted ; but in our initial search for invariance ( cf. 1.1 ) , we still can not specify this rule as categorical with the same confidence as we can define a constraint on a phonological variable . |
| 5 | Certainly there were those , both in the divisions and outside , who felt that the BEA headquarters design policy , in its search for reliability and speed of construction above all else , had imposed an unnecessary conservatism on development . |
| 6 | In the search for reliability and good service , you could rely on crossed fingers or personal recommendation . |
| 7 | In March 1988 North West Exploration found encouraging prospects in its search for gold in Co . |
| 8 | In his search for gold he found many new islands including Cuba and Hispaniola . |
| 9 | It 's the search for gold that opens up virgin land with roads and airstrips , and then other settlers follow . |
| 10 | Ship in search for gas fields |
| 11 | A MAJOR search for gas is to be mounted off the East Coast later this year by a consortium headed by Kelt UK . |
| 12 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 13 | In what ways have the false doctrine of abstraction , and the equally mistaken materialism to which it lends support , been a ‘ great source of errors and difficulties ’ in our search for knowledge ? |
| 14 | In the search for knowledge what matters is the truth that is knowledge . |
| 15 | And anyway , my search for knowledge about human behavior — surely it ca n't be dangerous ? |
| 16 | It was the only thing on the horizon , shouldering aside achievement and sensation with attention-seeking roughness , and nothing , not conversation , wine , sexual encounters or the search for knowledge or fame could prevent it . |
| 17 | To have involved the whole North of England in a continuing search for knowledge , with hypothesis and verification conducted in the best Popperian manner , would be a signal development in community maturity . |
| 18 | The search for knowledge was also of practical benefit to humankind . |
| 19 | Realising that Macleod had perceived him clearly , Boswell introduces a short apologia pro vita sua , ‘ a short defence of that propensity in my disposition ’ , in which he justifies his pursuit of the great and famous as ‘ nothing more than an eagerness to share the society of men distinguished either by their rank or talents ’ , and calls it a search for knowledge . |
| 20 | Once myth was destroyed , the metaphysical drive survived at best in attenuated form in the Socratic search for knowledge ; and at worst in a religious syncretism that led only to complete triviality or exotic superstition . |
| 21 | ‘ I have made a study of the Fall , how men challenged the Gods in their search for knowledge and were banished from Eden . |
| 22 | DEC STOPS SEARCH FOR ALPHA SEMI PARTNERS , IBM IN OEM PUSH FOR POWERPC ? |
| 23 | He suggests that the search for cost-effectiveness was particularly prevalent in the 1980s , with the establishment of the Audit Commission and the development of performance indicators in the NHS . |
| 24 | Aside from the development of a public sector salariat , however , there is also the point that many private sector salarian posts have been ‘ routinised ’ in the search for cost-effectiveness , eroding the previously valued autonomy of the middle class occupations ( Braverman 's analysis of clerical labour , Oppenheimer , 1975 , on professionals , Crompton , 1979 , on insurance clerks ) , and providing conditions under which union organisation could be developed . |
| 25 | Moreover , as always in Dostoevsky , the search for suffering refuses to settle into coherent masochistic focus . |
| 26 | However , ‘ I invite nobody into my soul ’ he declares , as if to banish the exhibitionist thought.44 And then if the search for suffering is allowed to eclipse the rest , we are back with Marmeladov squinnying into the bottom of his vodka jug ; whereas Stavrogin saying he wants to forgive himself might be Raskolnikov pondering retrospectively , selfcritically , on his admission of guilt at the police station . |
| 27 | And for the thousands of chatline users who will be left high and dry when their service shuts down in April , Dr Derek Milne predicts a further search for support . |
| 28 | So Tory Central Office in their desperate search for support ca n't even filter out the Labour councillors on a council they apparently despise . |
| 29 | The deal is a timely boost for Scotland 's top steeplechase after a long , fruitless search for support following the decision by William Hill , sponsor for the past 15 years , to pull out after last year 's race . |
| 30 | The role of the artist as I see it is to present a personal vision of the world , a vision which is the product of a search for self-knowledge . |