Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] looking [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 2 | Thus Anderson may have been more prophetic than was realized at the time ( Earley 1988:61 ) : Parents are basically looking for reassurance about their children 's schools and teachers . |
| 3 | Buyers are currently looking at packaging of inner soles which would need to be changed if we were to stock them . |
| 4 | In nature small fish are constantly looking for food , and will eat small amounts whenever they find them . |
| 5 | The Government is ostensibly looking to Parliament to confer not just statutory enactment of what it negotiated at Maastricht , but moral and political assent . |
| 6 | Newly formed cooperatives are particularly looking for forage , livestock handling , grain drilling and grain drying equipment , ’ he says . |
| 7 | The police are increasingly looking to technology — and to information technology in particular — to help them combat increasing crime . |
| 8 | DETECTIVES were yesterday looking for Animal Rights extremists who planted a firebomb under a huntswoman 's car . |
| 9 | Criticised for making so many alterations since becoming manager , Taylor is now looking for stability . |
| 10 | Almost three quarters of married women are now looking for work , 21 per cent more than in the early 70s when mum 's prime concern was caring for her children . |
| 11 | The Duchess was desperately looking for help . |
| 12 | Sequent is currently looking for volume outlets for WinServer in the US and Europe . |
| 13 | Jimmy was still looking in horror at the wall where Frye had disappeared . |