Example sentences of "[modal v] be search [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our second should be to search for appropriate measures for comparison . |
| 2 | Alan Bennett says : ‘ Critics should be searched for certain adjectives at the door of the theatre . |
| 3 | In the former of these circumstances the old county histories may be searched to considerable effect , for not only may they describe the church as it then was , but give further clues as to where data may be found . |
| 4 | So in the case of ’ money ’ , the corpus would be searched for all appearances of that word , and then the immediate contexts of each occurrence ( the concordances ) would be collected and truncated to extend no more than four words either side of the lemma . |
| 5 | A general sky survey would also be undertaken in which every degree of the heavens would be searched for extraterrestrial signals . |
| 6 | Other important London history collections will be searched in due course . |
| 7 | HelpDesk requests are stored in an historical database , which can be searched for effective answers to future reader queries . |
| 8 | Written business contracts can be searched for minute loopholes in the small print , for the Arab is most certainly a past master at the game of delay . |
| 9 | Ordering and receipt of materials for the school library is not normally a large part of the school librarian 's work but it can prove time-consuming and one advantage of having a microcomputerbased acquisitions package is that it will help to free the school librarian for other more curriculum-related work and will allow easy access to books and other items on order using a program which can be searched in various ways . |