Example sentences of "searching for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wound up the window and started to cruise round , her eyes searching for the nice little space that would take her white Golf GTI . |
| 2 | During the day a Cant Z.501 flyingboat of the 184 a Squadriglia R.M. was also lost , apparently to Malta fighters , and probably while searching for the downed German aircrew ; the crew of this aircraft were rescued near the Sicilian coast . |
| 3 | A Guardian stalwart made a telling observation about him : ‘ While Ian Wolldridge might spend hours searching for the good line , Hugh will spend the time searching for the truth ’ — and suddenly I saw McIlvanney almost as if he were a bare-knuckle fighter in one of his brother 's novels . |
| 4 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 5 | The profit-seeking firm faces the difficult task of searching for the appropriate profit-maximising output and profit margin . |
| 6 | In the New Testament Jesus uses two images to convey God 's extravagant concern for the world : one is the shepherd who risks the rest of the flock in order to go searching for the lost sheep ; the other is the woman who turns a house upside down looking for lost coins . |
| 7 | The ‘ plot ’ has him searching for the lost chord , which is about as banal as you can get , but the contributors look interesting George Harrison , Charlie Rich , Betty Wright , John Sebastian , Rufus Thomas and Billy Swan are among them . |
| 8 | In the first place , instead of searching for the long-term consequences of early family experiences , a switch has taken place to the study of immediate effects . |
| 9 | Programme makers are searching for the best children 's museum in Britain . |
| 10 | searching for the air-blue gown . |
| 11 | LINGERIE departments at Christmas are full of bewildered men searching for the perfect gift for their partner . |
| 12 | Finding a special moulding can be a real inspiration for a picture and really boost one 's enthusiasm , so spending some time searching for the perfect frame , or one that is very unusual , can be highly profitable . |
| 13 | She , 17 years his senior , was ebullient , romantic and far too impatient to spend even a minute searching for the perfect phrase when a cliché would do . |
| 14 | He said this almost with regret , in the tones of a disappointed birdwatcher searching for the great crested grebe . |
| 15 | Whilst they are searching for the relevant information , their inventories of unsold goods will start to build up . |
| 16 | Freeing the study of politics from its ‘ structural overtones ’ , as Almond put it , not only meant searching for the familiar functions of government in unfamiliar social structures ( such as administration by age sets ) . |
| 17 | But the chance survival of a record of a miracle on Easter Day not long before Lanfranc 's arrival shows that the monks were still giving a dramatic representation of the three women at the tomb searching for the risen Lord as laid down in the Regularis Concordia . |
| 18 | He and Joseph Hucks were to spend ‘ three or four days ’ in Oxford , and then to embark on a lengthy exploration of North Wales , the destination at that period of many travellers searching for the picturesque beauty praised by writers such as William Gilpin . |
| 19 | The Philippines government , still searching for the estimated £6.5bn that the Marcos family squirreled away , is unimpressed with this fairy tale . |
| 20 | Eventually the house sensed a excitement of spring in the air , the earth was coming alive again with awakening green shoots peeping through , searching for the warm rays of sunshine . |
| 21 | An alternative approach is for the instruction to scan from ( usually ) the most-significant to the least.significant end of the word , searching for the first bit set to one , and placing the number of that bit position in a suitable register , Notice the similarity between this operation and the " shift and count " instruction discussed in the last section . |
| 22 | While he was still searching for the right question to ask , the sound of a key in the padlock made them both jump . |
| 23 | ‘ I mean , ’ Corbett began slowly , ‘ the House of Comyn and that of Bruce must , er — , ’ the English clerk paused , searching for the right words . |
| 24 | He was searching for the right doctor — he meant a doctor for his soul — and kept falling into the hands of quacks . |
| 25 | When searching for the right adjective , bear in mind that your effect on the reader will be stronger if you can create physical sensation , if you can make the reader conjure up a colour , a texture , a smell or a sound , rather than using a word like ‘ soothing ’ , or ‘ lovely ’ or ( worst of all ) ‘ evocative ’ . |
| 26 | Emily paused , angrily searching for the right words . |
| 27 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 28 | After some time of searching for the right facility they have had to go back and build something anew . |
| 29 | Fenella and Caspar both knelt down , taking a gentle hold of the Tree Spirits ' maimed branches , searching for the right words to convey their gratitude . |
| 30 | I spent many hours in my laboratory , searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug . |