Example sentences of "the [noun sg] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 2 | When a prospect comes to the stand looking for literature , this should be an ideal opportunity for the salesperson to establish contact and obtain details of the prospect . |
| 3 | Mainly from Spain and France , the variety to look for is the Spanish Manzanilla olive which has a fine texture and flavour . |
| 4 | I have always said that there are thousands of qualified accountants sitting out there in small companies where they are finance directors , credit controllers , company secretaries , advisers to the board , the people to whom the board looks for everything . |
| 5 | I again spent most of the afternoon looking for gaunt-face , coming in the end to the conclusion that whatever he was doing on the train he was n't travelling because of an overpowering interest in racing . |
| 6 | You should also review the case looking for the more individual features in it . |
| 7 | Finlayson followed Woolley all around the squadron looking for a chance to get his own back . |
| 8 | The decision to look for a significant equity partner appears to be Virgin 's attempt to keep out of the clutches of the five majors while remaining a credible force in the worldwide music business . |
| 9 | Thus the same researcher not only carries out the basic work on a new product but — equally important — is out in the market-place looking for and trying to solve customer problems . |
| 10 | When Heathcliff went out to look for our horses , Cathy and I hurried round the kitchen looking for a way to escape . |
| 11 | He went through to the kitchen to look for the brandy bottle . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The driver looked for a sign , and found : |
| 14 | The process of running a program means that it carries out the CPU instructions in the program file , some of which will involve telling the PC to look for certain data files on disk which it will use for its own ends . |
| 15 | John later came back to the box and searched around the land round the cabin to look for explanations but no solution presented itself and the mystery remains to this day and defies rational belief . |
| 16 | A butterfly was flapping around the wheelbarrow looking for a fragrance to match the colour of that great metallic flower . |
| 17 | Leonard spent hours walking and cycling around the neighbourhood looking for it . |
| 18 | ‘ And now it is gone , all gone … the communists have thrown in the sponge and left us bouncing around in the ring looking for an opponent . |
| 19 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So , when you failed to find him , you gave up and went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 21 | I think he had left the study to look for something . |
| 22 | On the recommendation of a 1958 report from the Commons Select Committee on Estimates , a technocratic team had been commissioned to build on the forward looks for social-service and defence spending pioneered by the Treasury in the mid-fifties . |
| 23 | For one of the first things the maltster looked for was just this : uniformity of seed in the samples that the farmer showed to him . |
| 24 | The trouble is that , with the club looking for immediate improved results , it is sometimes difficult to persevere for too long with newcomers . |
| 25 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 26 | Disunity in Congress also compelled the administration to look for allies if it was to risk military involvement . |
| 27 | Fire-fighters have have spent the day sifting through the debris looking for clues . |
| 28 | Fire-fighters have have spent the day sifting through the debris looking for clues . |
| 29 | The test looks for the presence of these antibodies . |
| 30 | It is the way in which the public is presented with the facts , rather than the facts themselves , which almost guarantees panic and resistance to the proposal to look for extra resources . |