Example sentences of "look for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 2 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 3 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 4 | Keener looks for the right sound rather than dictating where microphones should be . |
| 5 | It is indeed remarkable — and perhaps a comment on the tunnel vision of many in academic life — that no previous scholars have looked for the Belgian detective 's literary antecedents in the most obvious of sources , the Medieval Mystery Play . |
| 6 | I have also looked for the planetary nebula NGC 7662 , which is in the field with the triangle made up of Lambda ( 3.8 ) , Kappa ( 4.1 ) and Iota ( 4.3 ) . |
| 7 | While he persists in looking for the golden egg before the chicken is even hatched the terrorists will continue to exact a mounting price in blood for his dithering approach to security . |
| 8 | In the first of a new series Peter Partington shows how to draw birds by looking for the essential scaffolding of shapes on which to build form and detail |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm looking for the Crowned Head , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Constance squeezed her way down the platform looking for the first-class carriages . |
| 11 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 12 | So I fell into one of my enjoyable reveries , examining the problem from every angle , looking for the key point where I might provoke a few kilocreds to tumble into my lap , by acquiring a bit of phetam . |
| 13 | Therefore , when one comes to section 63(2) one is looking for the additional expense incurred in or in connection with the provision of the benefit . |
| 14 | If you are single and ambitious , then your career pattern and development will be important to you , and any prospects for promotion in the longer term are a significant factor when looking for the right opening . |
| 15 | It is these needs rather than those of the plant which have left us still looking for the right materials . |
| 16 | Looking for the right word ! |
| 17 | Almost everyone concerned with education is looking for the right direction to go , and there is much talk of leadership . |
| 18 | ‘ But we continue to study it and are looking for the right vehicle . ’ |
| 19 | We had spent much time looking for the right place and seemed to have explored almost every corner of the country , from Devon to Cumberland , and had almost settled on a disused mill at Fisherton-de-la-Mare , near Amesbury . |
| 20 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |
| 21 | Or maybe it was like the ball in a roulette wheel , bouncing around and looking for the right number … |
| 22 | In this case , the researcher decides how many of each category of person should be included in the sample , but then , instead of selecting them at random from a sampling frame , the researcher goes out looking for the right number of people in each category until the quota is filled . |
| 23 | She paused for a moment looking for the right words . |
| 24 | I 'm an administrator by background , and I think that 's interesting , because one of the things that we are trying to do in the health service is to open up our management posts to people of all professions , and to recognise that management is not the prerogative of any particular group , but that we 're looking for the right people to manage our services from wherever they might come , and I 'm one of three people who has a responsibility to the senior manager in the community at the top , for the managing on a day-to-day basis the health services in Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | She mounted the steps to the front door of the house and stood looking for the right bell to ring . |
| 26 | Anyone who comes to Rolle 's lyrics looking for the subtle music of variety of stress within a regular syllabic pattern will be brought up short by an unpredictability of both syllabic and stress systems which lurch uneasily from one banal sing-song pattern to another . |
| 27 | yes it 's Chernobyl , he was looking for the real word there , a nuclear what ? |
| 28 | They 'll tell everyone that they 're looking for the stolen uranium . |
| 29 | I think that 's the one danger of all of this , is that both the County Council 's and the District Council 's aim perhaps or now are beginning to listen to the parish councils , but also , just really get an eye off the ball , cos they 're looking for the increased responsibilities for their own purposes , and I think that 's one serious danger that we c have to face , as a local community . |
| 30 | Moreover he knew that Harwell were looking for the crucial neutron spectrum which , surely , would clinch everything . |