Example sentences of "we are [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are striving for perfection in our products , not for making money out of them . |
| 2 | The photographs we are looking for will reflect a French mood whether shot in England , France or Patagonia ! |
| 3 | We are looking for authorities that can deliver efficient and effective services . |
| 4 | If we are looking for nonsense , this suggestion is a prime example . |
| 5 | In the absence of this ‘ classical ’ formation , we are looking for tendencies and trends much less sharply and universally defined , but no less definitive for tracing the particular mutation of the novelistic effected by television . |
| 6 | We are not just looking for tax disc dodgers , we are looking for insurance offences , or MOT offences and the condition of vehicles . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Daz will become a high-profile player , and we are looking for others . |
| 8 | ‘ We are looking for members of the Asian community who can provide memories of when they first came into the area , how they got employment , how the locals opened up to them , their first impressions of Britain and the problems of racism they may have encountered . ’ |
| 9 | We are looking for persons who can work both individually and in teams , and capable of conducting research from the definition of a project to the final writing up of the results . |
| 10 | ‘ We are looking for things like active galactic nuclei which put out tremendous energies in neutrinos . ’ |
| 11 | We are looking for help in developing our sales , promotion and marketing . |
| 12 | We are looking for fairness , and that is what we 're going to deliver . |
| 13 | We are looking for Engineers and Scientists who are keen to make an impact on leading research projects which require novel and cost-effective technical solutions . |
| 14 | We are looking for discontinuities . |
| 15 | Practically , we are looking for office premises and counselling rooms . |
| 16 | Again , therefore , we are looking for explanations which combine Marx with the insights of writers such as LeBon and Freud . |
| 17 | We are looking for individuals who are adaptable and flexible , who live in the real world of the present and can cope adequately with whatever problems and difficulties it presents . |
| 18 | We are looking for individuals who are able to strive for satisfaction , but who are also able to defend and protect themselves from disappointments and setbacks . |
| 19 | Certainly , we are looking for individuals who can accept responsibility both for themselves and others , who can use their initiative to control events rather than drift aimlessly through life . |
| 20 | We are looking for individuals who feel reasonably content with their present lives , although perhaps with lots of unfinished business to complete . |
| 21 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 22 | We are looking for ideas to improve the level of Customer Service we offer particularly during the months of May and June . |
| 23 | ‘ We are looking for people with entrepreneurial flair , ’ said David Jones , who directs the board 's efforts in the area of small companies . |
| 24 | We are looking for people who know their needs and wants , their likes and dislikes — but who are realistic about when they are likely and not likely to be fulfilled . |
| 25 | We are looking for people who can accept that the past has passed and , whilst remembering it with fondness , can also look to the future and view what it might bring with a degree of optimism and hope . |
| 26 | She says we are looking for people who can pull a crowd as well as have a bit of fun . |
| 27 | And we are calling for change . |
| 28 | ( Of course , no utterances are safe from the post-Freudian trick of claiming that they mean the opposite of what they say , but in the interpretation of literary texts we must be given additional , fairly unequivocal evidence of a discrepancy between speech and meaning , as we are given for Iago , but not for Othello . ) |
| 29 | When we are asked for assistance we call in the Services ’ social services people , the SSAFA ( Soldiers ' , Sailors ' and Airmen 's Families Association ) , who decide what help is needed , and we provide it . ’ |
| 30 | Thus we are appealing for things to sell at the car boot sales , or maybe you would prefer to make a small donation to our funds . |