Example sentences of "[noun] [be] looking [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford University are looking in good shape for Sunday 's womens boat race . |
| 2 | Particularly acute problems appear to be found in the area of raising seed-corn capital ( pre start-up capital , less than £250,000 , the riskiest type of venture capital ) and that venture funds are looking for shorter term returns ( BEQB 1990 ) . |
| 3 | Claire and Kezia were looking at each other and saying nothing . |
| 4 | Will he bear in mind the fact that many eastern European countries are looking to this country as a possible dumping ground and they produce their goods with wages of about 20p an hour ? |
| 5 | XSoft is looking for high-volume distribution and has cut deals with Qualix Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc to provide the software free of charge for an initial 30-day trial basis . |
| 6 | Answer guide : This question is looking for some discussion around the realization and prudence principles . |
| 7 | As athletes prepare for the Olympics , sporting organisations are looking for big sponsorship deals to pay for the trip to Barcelona . |
| 8 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 9 | Farmers are looking for free drainage schemes and for ways of selling their land to us . |
| 10 | So our customers are looking for multi-vendor transparency . |
| 11 | The established family farms were , mostly , already profitable and the farmers were looking for sufficient income to provide their families with a reasonable standard of living plus sufficient capital to re-invest in the farm and provide for retirement . |
| 12 | Here , the therapist is looking for maladaptive coping strategies which can be altered at a later date in homework assignments . |
| 13 | Now that the Open Software Foundation is looking for new development avenues for ANDF , its architecture neutral distribution format ( UX No 384 ) , it says a number of interested parties including both commercial houses and research institutes have come forward : Apparently talks with an unidentified US government agency , a research arm , have advanced to contract negotiations . |
| 14 | The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers . |
| 15 | Third … indeed , why would wilko be looking for another midfielder . |
| 16 | ‘ More and more people are looking to this kind of holiday — a bit of walking through spectacular landscapes , punctuated by train rides , ’ says Mark Livock , product manager |
| 17 | People are looking for tastier beef and that comes from the Hereford cattle . |
| 18 | The European Junior Team Championships , which England last won in 1988 , are to be played here from July 8–11 and all the governing bodies are looking on this week 's championships as the ideal trial run . |
| 19 | Circle members were looking at each other with slowly dawning horror and suspicion . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly both Vlaminck and Derain were looking at tribal art in a somewhat unfocused way before 1906 , the year in which Vlaminck purchased his first ‘ discoveries ’ , as were many other young artists . |
| 21 | The firm is looking for further growth , especially overseas , chiefly by acquisition and joint venture ; now with several clients in Australia and elsewhere in the Far East , the London office is feeling the lack of branches in that area , despite its comparative strength in the USA . |
| 22 | But with the messenger business increasingly beset by price wars , market saturation , soaring development costs and flagging margins , Mr Gates is looking for fresh profit in producing and selling the message itself . |
| 23 | Already Mrs Thatcher was looking beyond last night 's result . |
| 24 | Police in York are looking for two sex pests following indecent exposure incidents in Salisbury Terrace and Heslington Road . |
| 25 | He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops . |
| 26 | Nevertheless by 19 July both sides were looking for foreign help . |
| 27 | This scheme is estimated to cost about £250,000 and the W & L is looking for financial assistance from grant giving bodies , from members and other sympathetic supporters . |
| 28 | The Wildcats are looking for early success in the play-off campaign when they play host to Bracknell tomorrow and travel to Basingstoke on Sunday . |
| 29 | Dad had turned away , and Mum and Mrs Fry were looking at each other like conspirators . |
| 30 | Solbourne 's UK representatives include sales and marketing manager Hamish Cassels and the company is looking for more country managers including two each for Germany and France , one for Scandinavia and one for Spain . |