Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [be] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 2 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 3 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 4 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
| 5 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 6 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |