Example sentences of "to search for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Citrine sometimes threatened a directive as his ultimate bargaining counter , but Area Board chairmen could call his bluff and he usually preferred to search for collective agreement . |
| 2 | Perhaps , like the lungfish of today , they lived in pools that were seasonal and used lungs and legs to search for other water when their homes went dry . |
| 3 | They profess wholehearted support for clean coal technology , but , by forcing British Coal to search for private sector money , the potentially world-beating topping cycle developments at Grimethorpe have been delayed and delayed . |
| 4 | They were thought to have gone to the course to search for lost golf balls . |
| 5 | An animal must similarly collect ‘ free ’ energy and continue to search for new energy sources which must at least repay the costs of the search . |
| 6 | ‘ We do not have to search for critical mass , ’ Sir Denys points out . |
| 7 | I left her , and went to search for more information in a different place . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose the great Dane Jacobsen never has to search for willing company . |
| 9 | ( 9 ) To authorise an applicant for an emergency protection order to search for another child on the same premises ( s48(4) ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Grimm , ’ he said , ‘ I want you to go deep into the ruptured entrails of Vasilariov to search for another hydra . |
| 11 | They may therefore take up the offer more speedily than they otherwise would , or be more reluctant to leave their existing job to search for another job . |
| 12 | Program the sensor pods to search for any sign of ancient habitations within a twelve thousand mile radius of the pole . ’ |
| 13 | He may even refuse to search for any answer at all , though expressing the deepest need for one . |
| 14 | Recruits refused to search for these food sources , even when we put a food source in a boat in the lake at the indicated spot . |
| 15 | RNase protection analysis using a probe spanning the 25kDa/50kDa junction was used to search for smooth muscle myosin heterogeneity in the S1 subfragment . |