Example sentences of "to search for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned . |
| 2 | He therefore gave authority to one Edward Sawyer to make inquiries , and to search for evidence in all houses and places in Kettering and five miles around . |
| 3 | Tyrone was to search for evidence of further concealed Coal Measures . |
| 4 | An additional power is given by section 8 which allows an application to be made to a magistrate for a warrant to search for evidence of a serious arrestable offence . |
| 5 | It is an offence to obstruct the police in their efforts to search for evidence of a drug offence . |
| 6 | ( The lack of teeth in terms of penalties is compounded by a lack of powers to search for evidence of abuses . ) |
| 7 | Under the provisions of PACE , the police now have powers to search for evidence prior to charging a suspect . |
| 8 | Indeed , where the bank or other party refuses to co-operate and the offence is serious , or is likely to lead to substantial financial gain or loss to any person , the same act allows the police to search for evidence which has the intention of furthering a criminal purpose , and in such cases this provision overrides legal privilege . |
| 9 | IDENTIFICATION Some people who have been rudely awakened to awareness of difference , who have never learnt to value the otherness of the other or feel safe with it , may need to search for love only with their mirror image . |
| 10 | They felt stigmatized , as skilled men , by taking unskilled work , and it left them no time to search for work at their trade . |
| 11 | 17 to search for gold is the outlook for the future ( 8 ) |
| 12 | The lessees were entitled to search for copper , lead , iron ore and iron stone , or mine such as had already been discovered , with liberty for " … ingress egress & regress … " |
| 13 | According to a Chinese source originally published in 1637 , women were made to strip and wade in streams to search for jade pebbles . |
| 14 | The thieves were said to enter the house at night , tie up the persons inside , threaten to murder them if they made any noise , dig up the floor to search for money , and so on . |
| 15 | AN angler dug into the annals of history to win the right to search for bait . |
| 16 | 9 A late evening walk to search for glow worms in Folkestone . |
| 17 | To search for text : above the cursor ( omit step 1 above and ) select : direction : ( Up ) of the same case ( or mix of cases ) as the search text select : case : ( Yes ) including whole words only select : whole word : ( Yes ) |
| 18 | Such theories also opened up other fields in which to search for inspiration . |
| 19 | Mr Escobar , in a letter to La Prensa , called for ‘ direct dialogue to search for peace ’ , with participation by government , opposition , judicial , church and journalism representatives . |
| 20 | He had been in correspondence with Ho , and now determined to make a personal visit to Hanoi to search for peace . |
| 21 | Why this constant need to change , to try something new , to search for paradise ? |
| 22 | Next morning Dairyman Crick sent all the dairy people out into a field to search for garlic plants . |
| 23 | Rights were conferred upon one Thomas Thurland ( a clergyman and Master of the Savoy Hospital ) , Sebastian Spydell and John Steynbergh as early as 1561 to search for mineral thought little positive was achieved . |
| 24 | By reading these books , executives can learn how to search for excellence , create excellence , achieve excellence , or become impassioned about excellence — preferably within one minute . |
| 25 | At first he had tried to look at the newspapers regularly to search for job vacancies and had sent application forms to prospective employers . |
| 26 | Her voice was muffled when she crawled under the oilcloth-covered table to search for Quimper bits . |
| 27 | This was the essence of the problem : the press could only be managed by someone who knew their methods and who would not expect them to come round to Central Office to search for news . |
| 28 | Investors , especially the big institutions , have started to search for value outside the top 100 UK stocks . |
| 29 | Thereafter , the growing concern over inflation , steep rises in household rates , growth of public spending , and the activities of left-wing Labour authorities led the Conservatives to search for economy . |
| 30 | A detective in the Republic said last night the gang kept elderly people chatting at their door while another member entered the house to search for cash and valuables . |