Example sentences of "look for a [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 | It actually looks for a lowest point , not a summit . |
| 5 | In such a culture , knowledge is superseded by wisdom , which looks for a total view of life , seeking to come to terms with its essential suffering and aspiring [ in Goethe 's words ] to " live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 " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Jemima Puddle-Duck looks for a quiet spot . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The researchers have looked for a specific decay of the proton , namely into a positron and a neutral pi-meson ( n ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One down against Jan Timman , with three left to play , he was looking for a solid advantage with the white pieces . |
| 13 | Backstage staff assembling and building the set are looking for a 1930s-style upright wheelchair , and a male ventriloquist 's dummy . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Overall a recommended buy if you are looking for a simple but powerful professional database . |
| 18 | If you 're looking for a great highlight to a misty walk , incorporate a visit to a good ruin . |
| 19 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 20 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 21 | LOZ was revelling more than most , and after the club closed he dragged sexy woolly hat-wearing NME hack SIMON WILLIAMS around the streets of Islington looking for a pot-bellied old man clutching a bottle of champagne as it was ‘ the only way we 'll get a drink at this time in the morning ’ . |
| 22 | If you 're looking for a part-time job such as babysitting or a paper round , try to find one through family or friends . |
| 23 | His small dark eyes darted around the smoke-filled room , looking for a friendly face , but they were all closed and impassive . |
| 24 | He scrutinised the crowd , looking for a friendly face . |
| 25 | Team Millar rider McWilliams , who is still looking for a 500 Grand Prix finish , had a constructive finish and felt he could have been higher in the table , but for the rain . |
| 26 | Like gangs , bullies are not looking for a stand-up fight , but for a victim ; the best way to beat them is to give more trouble than they can handle . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't say that you are looking for a gilded mare too ! ’ |
| 28 | Whitehead Mann has taken on some of the highest salaried job searches in Britain , comparable with Russell Reynolds ' recruiting of Bob Bauman for Beecham ; an assignment on behalf of a major British company looking for a chief executive to run their operations in Australia earned the firm £333 000 , according to the popular press ( on the basis that the successful candidate was to be paid an annual salary approaching £1m . ) . |
| 29 | It 's fin okay if we 're looking for a thirtieth we 'd find thirty in there . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't think they 're looking for a battered glamour boy , ’ Scott said . |