Example sentences of "be searching for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am searching for a pattern . |
| 2 | often , new songwriters are searching for a recording contract as artists . |
| 3 | They can not therefore meet the needs of cities that are searching for a method to restrain traffic over large areas . |
| 4 | Malcolm Crosby is fighting hard to keep his job at Sunderland , even though the directors are searching for a replacement . |
| 5 | Whether you are in the market for a new car , or are searching for a value-for money second-hand model , you may need to borrow money to help finance the deal . |
| 6 | Only a few writers in international relations ( notably Jervis , 1976 ; Steinbruner , 1974 ) have seriously questioned the assumption of rationality in state policy making and some more recent works have distinguished bargaining in which the parties are not consciously conflictual but are searching for a point of convergence ( Raiffa , 1982 ; Rangarajan , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | If you are searching for a solution to an undefined need it is more than likely that you 'll be seduced by the obvious attractions of graphics oriented programs like PageMaker , Ready Set Go and so on . |
| 8 | POLICE in Co Down are searching for a thief who locked a safe after stealing its church collection contents from a parochial house . |
| 9 | CENTRAL Scotland police are searching for a man seen leaving a building which was deliberately set alight on Stirling Road , Dunblane , late last Friday evening . |
| 10 | Police are searching for a blunt instrument . |
| 11 | A serious inquiry into the theory that almost all Australians had no fathers and have been searching for a father figure ever since , only to find it in their own persons , with resultant confusion . |
| 12 | I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers . |
| 13 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 14 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 15 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 16 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 17 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 18 | Police think whoever did it may have been searching for a non existant stache of money . |
| 19 | Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan . |
| 20 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 21 | Whether you 're searching for an unusual birthday gift , designer suit , engagement ring , leather luggage or simply to eat , York is the place to go . |
| 22 | They 'll be searching for a wooden stick with a thistle painted on it , and discussing the minutes of the last Rotarians ' whist drive subcommittee meeting . |
| 23 | It would have given her an excuse to be searching for a particular room , but she had been so frightened … |
| 24 | Instead he went over to one of the shelves and pretended to be searching for a book . |
| 25 | He will be searching for a monster pike and working his way slowly along the river by casting spinners and lures into all of the likely spots . |
| 26 | Erika dissented quite vehemently from this heresy while , despite herself , her eyes were searching for a mirror . |
| 27 | ‘ I remember once , though , when Sounds were searching for an interview and I happened to know that the whole thing was a set-up . |
| 28 | It 's no secret that Cloughie is searching for a centre-half . ’ |
| 29 | We hear Uniplex is searching for a US president . |
| 30 | The paper offers a model derived from ‘ job search theory ’ which is concerned with the optimal behaviour of an unemployed individual who is searching for a suitable job in the labour market . |