Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] looking [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly , employers are looking for higher levels of skills . |
| 2 | The 22 NorthEast Rotaract Clubs are looking for worthwhile charities to support in their September fund-raising week . |
| 3 | Particularly acute problems appear to be found in the area of raising seed-corn capital ( pre start-up capital , less than £250,000 , the riskiest type of venture capital ) and that venture funds are looking for shorter term returns ( BEQB 1990 ) . |
| 4 | When speakers are looking for different ways of accomplishing the same goal ( in Coveney 's example , successfully requesting information ) they are not limited to the various possibilities in the linguistic system for constructing formal interrogatives . |
| 5 | Tory backbenchers are looking for strong measures to boost the economy and hope a one per cent cut in interest rates will cushion predicted cutbacks in public spending . |
| 6 | The latter two conditions proved severe stumbling blocks such that the Norwegians were looking towards alternative means of marketing their hydrocarbon reserves to keep up the revenues to which the Norwegian economy has grown accustomed , well before the Sleipner deal was called off . |
| 7 | Manufacturers were looking at different techniques in an effort to beat off their rivals . |
| 8 | Will he bear in mind the fact that many eastern European countries are looking to this country as a possible dumping ground and they produce their goods with wages of about 20p an hour ? |
| 9 | County planners are looking at two fields near Watchfield . |
| 10 | Only last autumn big life insurance companies were looking at net losses on their long-term shareholdings . |
| 11 | As athletes prepare for the Olympics , sporting organisations are looking for big sponsorship deals to pay for the trip to Barcelona . |
| 12 | As the article by Dr Stuart Nelson in this issue ( p11 ) points out , most SMEs are looking for immediate benefits by improving their products and processes with existing technology at low risk . |
| 13 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 14 | Farmers are looking for free drainage schemes and for ways of selling their land to us . |
| 15 | The geologists are looking for viable extensions of the Wych Farm field which has been successfully exploited in Poole Harbour without too much impact on the environment . |
| 16 | Borough council officers are looking at several ways of helping disabled motorists to shop in the town once High Row and Skinnergate become off bounds to them on March 29 . |
| 17 | So our customers are looking for multi-vendor transparency . |
| 18 | Consultants are looking at various sites and will report to the council in November . |
| 19 | The established family farms were , mostly , already profitable and the farmers were looking for sufficient income to provide their families with a reasonable standard of living plus sufficient capital to re-invest in the farm and provide for retirement . |
| 20 | The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers . |
| 21 | The European Junior Team Championships , which England last won in 1988 , are to be played here from July 8–11 and all the governing bodies are looking on this week 's championships as the ideal trial run . |
| 22 | It estimates 90% of its users are looking for 8 CPUs and 1Gb memory anyway . |
| 23 | Circle members were looking at each other with slowly dawning horror and suspicion . |
| 24 | As times grow hard , general publishers are looking for new markets . |
| 25 | The police are looking for two men , one of them about 23 , with scruffy black hair , a white shirt and blue jacket and trousers . |
| 26 | Police are looking for any links with today 's fire . |
| 27 | Nevertheless by 19 July both sides were looking for foreign help . |
| 28 | The firm , which will do boards for a whole range of products including computers , telecommunications and satellite receiver and industrial control system products is looking for further partnerships in Taiwan , Japan and the US and is three months away from announcing its next deal . |
| 29 | The Wildcats are looking for early success in the play-off campaign when they play host to Bracknell tomorrow and travel to Basingstoke on Sunday . |
| 30 | Why US carmakers are looking for European partners : Larry Black explains an unexpected effect of US restrictions on imports of Japanese cars |