Example sentences of "searching for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The calculation of unemployment statistics is somewhat different in Australia , the United States , Canada and Japan where sample surveys are taken to estimate the total number of people who are without jobs but have actually been searching for work during the sample period . |
| 2 | Thirdly , official labour market intermediaries in the job centres are an important source of information about employment prospects and a crucial part of the process of discouraging older workers from searching for work and , indirectly , of encouraging them to take early retirement . |
| 3 | It is the process where-by the state encourages and legitimates certain forms of dependency , such as unemployment and early retirement among men aged 60–64 , while subjecting others not only to substantially lower incomes , but also to control procedures intended to ensure that they continue searching for work ( Sinfield 1981 : 142 ) . |
| 4 | Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all . |
| 5 | People searching for work face a tough task . |
| 6 | I am currently searching for sponsorship so that we can publish and circulate the report widely next month . |
| 7 | Then she paused , searching for inspiration . |
| 8 | Searching for inspiration , Marks remembered a very disturbing and bestselling book of the period called Silent Spring by Rachel Carson , which discussed the potential knock-on effects to the ecology of over-using insecticides . |
| 9 | Searching for inspiration he had glanced to the north and seen the helicopter flying low and fast from Richborough Castle towards the area beyond the 17th green . |
| 10 | A writer , then , perhaps : and Clara , searching for help , directed her excellent vision at the distant titles of the books on the shelves behind Martin 's head . |
| 11 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |
| 12 | I want to stress this connection between searching for home and finding a tongue , a writing voice , because I believe it to be fundamental to your own writing development . |
| 13 | There are theoretical advantages in searching for DNA mutations rather than occult blood in stool . |
| 14 | That means not just searching for subject matter , but constantly reevaluating what I am doing and why . |
| 15 | That means not just searching for subject matter , but constantly reevaluating what I am doing and why . |
| 16 | The ones you see may be queens searching for nest sites , such as old mouse holes in hedgebanks . |
| 17 | We are searching for anonymity and essence . |
| 18 | In searching for question 7 for example , the examiner must open the book fully at each page until he spots the small number 7 almost tucked into the binding . |
| 19 | Near by , Bigwig was stirring and twitching in his sleep , searching for warmth , trying to press against another rabbit 's body no longer there . |
| 20 | It no longer provides a separate quantum library , making it useless for searching for quantum for common injuries such as a broken limb . |
| 21 | His public pronouncements are unequivocal in this respect , and although it is clearly not possible to accept such public pronouncements as the definitive expression of a man 's innermost beliefs and convictions , and although it is also evidently the case that to be published in L'Humanite and Ce Soir inevitably necessitates obedience to the party line , nonetheless the consistency and vigour with which Nizan presented an entirely positive view of developments within the Soviet Union are an instructive antidote to those critics desperately searching for evidence of Nizan 's growing anti-Stalinism/anti-communism during this period . |
| 22 | These topics fall into three main groups : ( a ) recognising the pattern of variation and seeking to correlate its occurrence with some environmental factor ; ( b ) seeking to find some differences in ability or behaviour between morphologically-different animals ; ( c ) searching for evidence of selection . |
| 23 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 24 | ‘ You sound uncommonly like a policeman to me , searching for evidence . |
| 25 | POLICE searching for secretary Kathryn Chappell are believed to have discovered a body at a warehouse today . |
| 26 | However , scientific problem-solving and public policy-making are not the same thing , and Carter as a policy-maker was ‘ a scientific man searching for certitude in an area of human experience , that of political conflict , which lacks mathematical or material certitude . ’ |
| 27 | Look at unusual sources and suppliers when searching for storage systems . |
| 28 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 29 | As well as demonstrations of country crafts , such as sheep shearing , hedge laying , stonewalling and spinning , there were opportunities for people to participate in activities ranging from bug-hunting to searching for gold . |
| 30 | His rear wheel spun on the loose stones , searching for grip , then he pulled away . |