Example sentences of "what we [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of what we are striving for as a necessity of our being is simply survival in physical and mental health . |
| 2 | What we are looking for is the politics of reaction . |
| 3 | What we are looking for is evidence of imagination , lateral thinking and the designer 's ability to solve technical problems . |
| 4 | ‘ What we are looking for is loving care and attention in the home . ’ |
| 5 | What we are looking for is a framework , an accommodating structure that will help us to organize our information and ideas . |
| 6 | Our methods should be appropriate to what we are looking for , and we should be clear what our motive is . |
| 7 | Even with minerals and lost objects we have a reasonably clear idea of what we are looking for and the dowser can be proved right or wrong . |
| 8 | What we are looking for are the exceptional unsung heroes and heroines in other walks of life . ’ |
| 9 | We thereby maximise our chance of demonstrating what we are looking for . |
| 10 | Surprisingly , after all that , the only bone of contention is the supposed ‘ frisson of excitement ’ which the anonymous mole declares is impossible to find and seeks help , as certain members of the department ‘ do n't know where to look , or even what we are looking for ’ . |
| 11 | What we are looking for is what I call constructive no-men . |
| 12 | ‘ Only , ’ she said aloud , ‘ only , we do not really know what we are looking for . ’ |
| 13 | It is natural to set out to look for something with a rigid set of requirements : to know precisely what we are looking for . |
| 14 | The main point about a search is that we know what we are looking for and often we know where to look . |
| 15 | It is not search because we do not know precisely what we are looking for . |
| 16 | Much of the difficulty of identification is caused by an almost complete ignorance of what we are looking for . |
| 17 | When involved in any kind of search we obviously need to be able to recognise what we are looking for , the goal state . |
| 18 | ‘ What we are looking for is some sign that the whales are responding . |
| 19 | We know what we are looking for . |
| 20 | That 's what we are prepared for because when I saw Lithuania play the Danes a couple of weeks ago they made them work hard for everything they got . |
| 21 | What we are aiming for is commitment from both teams to the negotiation . |
| 22 | ‘ We know what we are aiming for and we know from experience how far players can go if they are prepared to work . |
| 23 | ‘ What we are aiming for are manning levels to cater for the re-opening of the station . |
| 24 | The maturing of British cinema between 1939 and 1945 is often seen as a particular response to the conditions of wartime , when filmmakers were called upon to communicate to audiences an idea of ‘ what we are fighting for . ’ |
| 25 | What we are fighting for is something for which Jesus himself took time out to pray for on the night he was betrayed : the unity of believers . |
| 26 | When light dawns as to what we are fighting for and why it is so difficult to achieve , sometimes we can break off and laugh with relief and take the steps to reconciliation that , again and again and again seem to be necessary . |
| 27 | The small primaries are essential in sustaining the fabric of village life and that 's what we are fighting for . ’ |
| 28 | In fact , this is what we are fighting for : non-white talents should be recognised and suitably awarded without any prejudice . |
| 29 | What we are asking for is a basic human right as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – – the right to participate in society , the right to a future for our children , for our community , the right to a decent job , a real job . |
| 30 | They need our hands , our feet and most of all our minds , colleagues , what we are asking for is not a lot . |