Example sentences of "look for [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the record is not on the centre track the first or last track will be searched , depending on a comparison of the key being looked for with the highest key on the track . |
| 2 | Where , on the other hand , we have sense-qualification , the property of A is not applied as a property in itself to the entity identified by N ( nor are any referential and perceptual correlates of the intensional property to be looked for in the actual referent , if there is one , corresponding to that entity ) . |
| 3 | Fourteen diabetes related examinations were looked for in the medical records , ranging from visual acuity and foot pulses to random blood sugar and urine analysis . |
| 4 | Perspicacious as ever I asked the council 's marketing director , John Howard , if he had then researched what consumers were looking for during the 60 seconds that were being removed from their lives for ever . |
| 5 | I can recommend any family will find what they are looking for at an HCI Club . |
| 6 | Of course while they may be imagining that they are bending my ear and creating a good impression , they are also providing me with the kind of evidence I am looking for about the gendered and generational aspects of this kind of racism . |
| 7 | Even blindingly obvious and crucial insights do n't usually come instantly — it took us 24 hours to realise that the part-concealed agenda behind IBM 's December closures was that the company was signalling the death of the mainframe , a couple of months to realise that the executive search committee of IBM non-executive directors had n't a clue what it should be looking for in a new chief executive for IBM — because they themselves did n't have the computer industry background they needed to recognise how vital such a background would be to the person assuming the post . |
| 8 | What did they accuse him of in front of Pontius Pilate , that 's what we 're looking for in the Roman trial next to come . |
| 9 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |
| 10 | And what else was Kerrang looking for in an ideal editor ? |
| 11 | While the quality of English wines can now compare with estate-grown and bottled wines from Germany or Alsace — in that they are fairly uniform — they bear the crisply full-flowered taste we often look for in a good table wine or aperitif . |
| 12 | One factor which investors look for in a safe haven is liquidity . |
| 13 | What should you look for in a primary school , before agreeing to send your child at four ? |
| 14 | But apart from basic maintenance like turning mattresses regularly — every three months , experts recommend — what should a hotelier look for in a good quality hotel bed and what is its average life expectancy ? |
| 15 | I mean you think about primal hunting adults like the bushmen or the Australian Aborigines , the the men do the , do the hunting for erm for meat and women do the , do the gathering for and the point is that er meat is very nutritious and it 's an important part of their diet and men go hunting and they come back and they share food with their wives and their relatives or someone and male parental investment is terribly important So women for instance if you ask David McKnight who 's a world authority on the Australian Aborigines and has spent many years living with them , say what do women look for in the traditional society , what do women look for in a husband ? |
| 16 | Reliability , simplicity , small size and light weight are the things to look for in the many models on the market today . |
| 17 | What I want you to look for in the next little passage that we look at is the way that the Sanhedrin present their case to Pontius Pilate . |
| 18 | The qualities looked for in a higher civil servant are : intelligence ; fluency of mouth and pen , particularly in producing a persuasive argument and in composing a good ministerial speech ; the capacity to induce other people to carry out a policy that perhaps they do not much wish to carry out ; a political ‘ nose ’ ; the ability ( in a Department or a local or regional office ) to organise those beneath him or her ; and capacity for hard work ( many of those at the top work extremely hard ) . |