Example sentences of "are [adv] looking [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In nature small fish are constantly looking for food , and will eat small amounts whenever they find them . |
| 2 | If all that does n't stop the person , they are obviously looking for trouble of some sort and you must quickly decide whether to lash out first or run for safety . |
| 3 | Thus Anderson may have been more prophetic than was realized at the time ( Earley 1988:61 ) : Parents are basically looking for reassurance about their children 's schools and teachers . |
| 4 | However , when this becomes a driver we are often looking for attention when we are doing something . |
| 5 | In this chapter we have , through our time travelling , been outside of our own world for some time now , so perhaps we are now looking at modernity with the eyes of a stranger coming home . |
| 6 | Almost three quarters of married women are now looking for work , 21 per cent more than in the early 70s when mum 's prime concern was caring for her children . |
| 7 | Newly formed cooperatives are particularly looking for forage , livestock handling , grain drilling and grain drying equipment , ’ he says . |
| 8 | The police are increasingly looking to technology — and to information technology in particular — to help them combat increasing crime . |
| 9 | Buyers are currently looking at packaging of inner soles which would need to be changed if we were to stock them . |
| 10 | With it , the company hopes to woo the developers that are currently looking at Unix , while at the same time keeping its existing MVS base happy since it enables the mainframe to run both MVS and Posix-compliant applications , and IBM already talking to a range of un-named Unix application developers about adapting their products . |
| 11 | Transend are continually looking for shareware that spans a wide spectrum . |