Example sentences of "cast around for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having grasped the educational import of the manyattas , Windley cast around for ways in which they might be adapted for administrative purposes . |
| 2 | While the employers tended to cast around for reasons outside the work process when they wished to disparage women workers , unionists spoke more often of the low level of women compositors " skill . |
| 3 | Casting around for members |
| 4 | Casting around for precedents for the next move forward , he seized on Michelet 's improvisatory style , which he said put him in mind of the rough sketches of a painter . |
| 5 | With the main market for computer games ( pre-adolescent boys ) reaching saturation point , the big companies are casting around for ways to keep those sales figures healthy . |