Example sentences of "look for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we believe that it is right to push back the boundaries of middle age a few years , we can happily keep our young tastes and looks for a bit longer . |
| 2 | LEEDS UNITED manager Howard Wilkinson looks for a change of luck tonight at sold-out Elland Road . |
| 3 | After the Reformation it looks for a moment as if the Ecclesiastical Courts would allow even a divorce in the modern sense ; but the attempt fails , and the only way of getting a complete dissolution of marriage is by special Act of Parliament ( and so the law remained , for persons domiciled in Northern Ireland , up to 1939 ) . |
| 4 | If results do not occur , the marketing director , or , worse , the managing director , looks for a scapegoat , human nature being what it is . |
| 5 | Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman |
| 6 | JA II impresses first with how tiny it looks for a car with such a monstrous reputation , second for the sheer physical intensity of the power when the Ford V8 crashes into life . |
| 7 | DALIAN ATKINSON could be the next target as England manager Graham Taylor looks for a hit-man . |
| 8 | Cricket : Inquest looks for a victim : Derek Hodgson examines the problems facing today 's gathering of the Headingley hierarchy |
| 9 | Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish . |
| 10 | When a toad looks for a pond in which to spawn , chances are it 's going on memory . |
| 11 | Apted 's definitions do not seem to take into account the student who goes directly to the shelves and looks for a book for an essay topic . |
| 12 | Each child has a number and looks for a packet with it on , which contains a small present . |
| 13 | Michael Ryan has looked for a rapprochement between deconstruction and Marxism . |
| 14 | He had looked for a loophole in their guard , he had found that crevice at the first time of asking . |
| 15 | But apparently no one else has looked for a phage that might produce such a toxin . |
| 16 | So the story , the dearly-bought exclusive , the story that had looked for a moment — just a moment — like Christine Keeler Mark 2 arrived on the desk of Sir David English , Pamella 's last editor . |
| 17 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 18 | They should have looked for a two-bedded , well-equipped flat in Norwich or in a convenient village close to the shops and post office , and to a church , of course . |
| 19 | The Man of Law 's " " I speke in prose " " need not be a description of the tale he is about to tell — it may be read as equivalent to " my speech is ( normally ) prosaic " — but several critics have looked for a prose work of Chaucer 's which could be identified as the once-intended tale of the Man of Law . |
| 20 | Brian Horton is looking for a striker . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're not looking for a conflict . |
| 22 | His two thumbs rotated about one another as they always did when he was agitated and looking for a way to strike . |
| 23 | Cadillac 's UK importer was aware of Leland 's achievement , and looking for a way to prove the car 's craftsmanship . |
| 24 | I could n't find the entrance to the restaurant that night for a start , and I spent the first half hour of the evening circling the outside of the building looking for a way in — in full view of all the diners . |
| 25 | When I went to Highlander I was looking for a way which could help towards more effective participation and the development of better non-formal opportunities in adult education on social issues which affect communities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland . |
| 26 | I was looking for a way out into the aisle . |
| 27 | We met briefly once in the water on my ill-fated outing at Laniakea : he was planing down a wave , I was scuttling up it , looking for a way out . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is plausible that in looking for a way to relate a proper-named individual to one introduced by a noun , the processor would be dominated by stereotypical associations . |
| 29 | The truth is that C is a convenient scapegoat for those upset by The Shamen 's commercial ambitions and looking for a way to convince themselves that , underneath it all , Colin 's still credible . |
| 30 | This point may sound very obvious , but it is seen to be crucial when one party to the contract is looking for a way to get out of his contractual obligations and is able to seize upon an ill-defined point . |