Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] looking [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine that you 're a complete beginner looking for a versatile sewing machine for dressmaking , soft furnishings and embroidery . |
| 2 | There have been few studies looking at the sexual risk of HIV infection for women who have sex with women and so there are few reported cases of women infected in this way . |
| 3 | On these grounds alone it would be ruled out by any sensible organisation looking for a big office site . |
| 4 | This tin of Day and Martins metal polish gave me some trepidation looking at the vast areas of iron ferrous . |
| 5 | Whitehead Mann has taken on some of the highest salaried job searches in Britain , comparable with Russell Reynolds ' recruiting of Bob Bauman for Beecham ; an assignment on behalf of a major British company looking for a chief executive to run their operations in Australia earned the firm £333 000 , according to the popular press ( on the basis that the successful candidate was to be paid an annual salary approaching £1m . ) . |
| 6 | I laughed silently as I sat against a hard cushion in the palm-frond house looking at the brown eyes around me . |
| 7 | It all but invited every cop-hating drug freak , every aggrieved drugs trafficker from the Bekaa Valley to Los Angeles , every ultra-right , gun-running , Contra-supporting machismo addict , and every thwarted narco-terrorist or Muslim extremist looking for a safe or cheap revenge to ‘ terminate ’ him also . |
| 8 | They were a sub-order with sharp claws and a prominent second toe looking like a huge sickle . |
| 9 | Midas , in Sloane Square , sells exclusive designer fashionwear making it an obvious target for jet-set shoplifters looking for the ultimate bargain . |
| 10 | He spent almost 10 years looking for a Scottish hotel near a large population centre , but found nowhere suitable . |
| 11 | However , the easiest way to distinguish the two groups is that the walker/scrambler will stand at the bottom of a difficult and dangerous mountain looking for a safe and easy way up , and the climber/dangler will stand at the foot of a safe and easy mountain looking for a difficult and dangerous way up . |
| 12 | However , the easiest way to distinguish the two groups is that the walker/scrambler will stand at the bottom of a difficult and dangerous mountain looking for a safe and easy way up , and the climber/dangler will stand at the foot of a safe and easy mountain looking for a difficult and dangerous way up . |
| 13 | I 'm usually too absorbed in my work to spend much time looking at the other students . ’ |
| 14 | We had spent much time looking for the right place and seemed to have explored almost every corner of the country , from Devon to Cumberland , and had almost settled on a disused mill at Fisherton-de-la-Mare , near Amesbury . |
| 15 | Here 's a simple solution for the regular monthly saver looking for an excellent level of return for quite a modest investment . |
| 16 | Craigie Aitchison is his leading artist looking for a new representation . |
| 17 | An extraordinary little trilobite looking like an ancient medallion , preserved in shale , with some of its original exoskeleton retained , coloured by iron compounds . |
| 18 | ANOTHER worthy cause looking for a new sponsor is tall and powerful with bandaged ears . |
| 19 | CACI are also able to build more advanced studies looking at the specific market sectors that a client may be interested in . |
| 20 | But if it 's a world problem , if there are international dimensions to our problems in Britain , or to Kenya 's problems in Kenya , or to Mexico 's Mexican problems in Mexico , then somehow we 've got to have international groups looking at the international aspects of those problems . |
| 21 | There is an element of desperation in this ( ageing vampiric lefties looking for a radical fix from the last sexual sub-culture left in town ) . |
| 22 | Thus a HIGH OR EQUAL comparison condition will be used to search a blocked file looking for a given record . |
| 23 | We had always known that there were many people looking for a historic building to restore but had not realized the extent , which was very encouraging . |
| 24 | These examples are relevant in the present context as the equitable no conflict rule is formulated in terms of a " reasonable man looking at the relevant facts and circumstances of the particular case " thinking that " there was a real sensible possibility of conflict " . |
| 25 | In view of the stringent financial requirements imposed on BR by the government this may be a little unfair but it does neatly encapsulate the views of many commentators looking at the likely impact of the Tunnel on the South East after 1993 . |
| 26 | A Labour movement looking to the 1990s would have been been debating single union , no-strike deals and profit-related payment systems rather than how best to call strikes and whether a system of labour tribunals was needed to compensate for the supposed bias of the capitalist courts . |
| 27 | Early versions of these theories were quickly taken up by clinical researchers looking for a formal way of examining what their patients — like the one above — were telling them and many experimental studies were carried out , guided by the hypothesis that schizophrenic features like overinclusive thinking are due to very weak filtration of the contents of thought , resulting in the psychotic individual finding it difficult to pursue a logically connected train of ideas . |
| 28 | I 'm a tall , dark , athletic male lookIng for an attractive and lonely female to give loads of affection to , and to put the sparkle into her beautiful eyes . |
| 29 | ‘ I sometimes think you hate everyone , ’ said Betty , who would have liked to go round India on a bicycle in an orange robe looking for an Enlightened One . |
| 30 | For those customers looking for a real Italian holiday atmosphere in an Italian family hotel , the Hotel Ritz is an ideal choice . |