Example sentences of "[noun] [be] search for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 One aim of experiments is to search for a compact spelling which can show sound and meaning as directly as possible , meet the needs of all who learn and use it , and is still close to existing spelling which has , so to speak , been ‘ cleaned up ’ .
2 Small wonder that scientists are searching for every lower temperatures , nearer still to absolute zero , where even more mysterious effects may be waiting .
3 Police are searching for a blunt instrument .
4 Police were searching for the missing bicycle , but the announcer said nothing about the missing hair .
5 As a new word is read from the ASCII file , the head list is searched for the longest string available from the start of the word .
6 This is very similar to the way a cassette is searched for a particular file .
7 Programme makers are searching for the best children 's museum in Britain .
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