Example sentences of "has [be] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Professor Howard has been looking for you , ’ she informed me . |
| 2 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 3 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 4 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 5 | As Tory backbenchers cheered , the Chancellor said : ‘ British business now has the opportunity it has been looking for — to bring the country out of recession , to increase sales , expand production and invest for the future . |
| 6 | People magazine has been looking for possible substitutes , and among the personalities they suggest is Prince Charles . |
| 7 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 8 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 9 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 10 | Part of the problem has been the software , which has been looking for a decent hardware platform and waiting for support from a mainstream operating system vendor . |
| 11 | Zimbabwe supports controlled culling of its large elephant population and has been looking for legal ways to cover the costs . |
| 12 | The other strategy has been to look for a species that is alive today that has physical characteristics similar to those of our common ancestor , and has the same lifestyle , and to use its brain as a model for the primitive brain . |