Example sentences of "have be looking [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of them having to bring fortnightly evidence that they have been looking for work when in the majority of cases they are not even permitted onto premises to ask for a job suggests an obvious indifference on the part of the policy makers . |
| 2 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |
| 3 | Area manager Beth Robinson says : ‘ Our business in Finaghy has steadily increased year by year and for some time we have been looking for premises , in a prominent location , which would give us the space we now need . |
| 4 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 5 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 6 | While some publishers have attempted to counter the decline in print runs for first time publications by pushing titles into paperback others have been looking for ways to revitalise their hardback sales . |
| 7 | So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites . |
| 8 | But Ferguson countered : ‘ A lot of people have been looking at Eric 's move with a very negative attitude . |
| 9 | A COUPLE who know the heartache of losing a child have been looking after Brian McDermott 's grave . |
| 10 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 11 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |