Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] looking for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar .
2 Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside .
3 As one observer noted , there is a need to develop democratic practice in the classroom as well as outside it , if people 's education is not to become simply ‘ a process of looking for a new set of right answers ’ .
4 He is also in the process of looking for a joint venture production partner who would be interested in taking a 49 per cent stake in MTM .
5 He is also in the process of looking for a joint venture production partner who would be interested in taking a 49 per cent stake in MTM .
6 There is a joy in looking for the kindly and generous action in the daily round ; a kindly smile from some ordinary person whose responses have not been blighted by desire or greed or envy .
7 Firstly , in addition to looking for a general description of the information available in the films , this study was concerned particularly with information which is related to risks and potential risks in the scenes .
8 Vivien is not alone in thinking that the European professionals are making a mistake in looking for the same privileges and superstar treatment that is nowadays meted out to their American sisters .
9 And now you can easily spot the best quality Scottish salmon by looking for the tartan Brand Quality Mark .
10 The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution .
11 In the first of a new series Peter Partington shows how to draw birds by looking for the essential scaffolding of shapes on which to build form and detail
12 Erm , we would n't want the policy to progress so far erm as to get to the stage of looking for a specific site and for us to pull the rug underneath the County , and for other authorities to pull the rug from underneath the County at that stage , erm to answer to Mr Heselton 's specific question , of course we would n't object to a new settlement er in Selby , but erm it does n't erm it does n't detract from our objection to erm the principle of the policy , the way the policy 's expressed .
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