Example sentences of "look for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Norris looks for a possible rapprochement between deconstruction and the Anglo-American philosophical tradition exemplified by Searle , though he finds that Derrida has more possible affinities with Searle 's master , Austin . |
| 2 | TIM SWALES : Looks for a good season |
| 3 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
| 4 | In such a culture , knowledge is superseded by wisdom , which looks for a total view of life , seeking to come to terms with its essential suffering and aspiring [ in Goethe 's words ] to " live resolutely in wholeness and fullness " . |
| 5 | When a child looks for a particular size box or a piece of material of a certain colour or texture , he is taking early steps towards sorting . |
| 6 | Jemima Puddle-Duck looks for a quiet spot . |
| 7 | The second wave occurs at puberty when the young person looks for a sexual partner , and if there has been minimum conflict during the phallic phase this is of the opposite sex . |
| 8 | In addressing them he utters no words of condemnation as he does in the case of the scribes and Pharisees , yet he nevertheless looks for an unconditional and wholehearted response from them . |
| 9 | For example , take Tokai 's notorious early '80s Fender copies : at long last , affordable , pro-quality guitars with classic looks for the impoverished working musician . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 12 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 13 | From there it looks for the infra-red ‘ signature ’ of a rocket 's exhaust . |
| 14 | Keener looks for the right sound rather than dictating where microphones should be . |
| 15 | And that 's where engineering you know , knowledge , comes er to bear because an engineer looks for that , he looks for the easy , simplest you know er method of production er which gives him an effective er machining operation throughout the whole job . |
| 16 | The researchers have looked for a specific decay of the proton , namely into a positron and a neutral pi-meson ( n ) . |
| 17 | When , in the manner of migratory buffalo , they moved elsewhere , its owner , an Indian businessman named Ram , who had spent £2m refurbishing the club , looked for a quick sale . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | If you 're looking for every conceivable thing to give you an advantage then you maybe have to consider dropping alcohol and becoming a monk or something . |
| 21 | We could take this illustration too far — but I would like you to look upon yourselves as conductors , setting the tempo of the class , listening and looking for every discordant note — and for every good one — helping by encouragement — and asking questions , for instance " Are you working as hard as you could ? " |
| 22 | By the time the General Election arrived eighteen months later , there was a good candidate ( Malcolm Thornton , now MP ) , a renewed constituency organisation and time for the people of Crosby to realise that they 'd done in that panicky moment when they were looking for a familiar face as their Member of Parliament . |
| 23 | One down against Jan Timman , with three left to play , he was looking for a solid advantage with the white pieces . |
| 24 | Backstage staff assembling and building the set are looking for a 1930s-style upright wheelchair , and a male ventriloquist 's dummy . |
| 25 | The manager 's problem tonight is to find a replacement for the injured Brian O'Neil , while looking for a wholehearted performance against a side whose manager , Simon Stainrod , is as relaxed as Brady is uncomfortable . |
| 26 | His followers tended to concentrate on the progressionist element , looking for a serial relationship between the classes of animal life and minimizing the gaps between the known forms . |
| 27 | As to the much discussed pearwood wall panels , Italo Rota explains : ‘ We were looking for a simple idea that would allow visitors who had already looked at a good many paintings to connect some of them with unfamiliar settings ; the art of memory tells us that it is easier to retain images in one 's head if one can link them to a specific space ’ . |
| 28 | Overall a recommended buy if you are looking for a simple but powerful professional database . |
| 29 | If you 're looking for a great highlight to a misty walk , incorporate a visit to a good ruin . |
| 30 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |