Example sentences of "looking [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When looking through windows for evidence it is often the case that the researcher only sees those types of evidence with a significance that has previously been established , and with an association that complies with existing models .
2 Looking through Acts at Paul 's call to evangelise , which culminated in many churches being planted , we can see five stages through which he went .
3 Alphabetical listings of LCSH do not offer an overview of related subjects and looking through records in class number sequence does not give the user the structure of the classification scheme .
4 Recently , a friend of mine who 's a teacher was looking through files of exam questions stored on a floppy disk .
5 After a desultory fifteen minutes looking through News on Sunday , 5.6 per cent of interviewees had said they were ‘ certain to buy ’ a paper like Hayling 's dummy .
6 He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died .
7 Today 's opening semi-final is a repeat of the 1988 United Kingdom final , with Corsie looking for revenge over England 's Gary Smith .
8 ‘ If they want to keep on looking for pots of gold , an Eldorado in Liechtenstein , they are welcome .
9 Mrs Maxwell also denied this , saying : ‘ If they want to keep on looking for pots of gold , an Eldorado in Liechtenstein , they are welcome .
10 He glanced back as if looking for signs of pursuit .
11 The brandy is racing around my body , looking for signs of weakness .
12 On the evenings I bait the swim I spend an hour just sitting and watching the swim after the bait has been introduced , looking for signs of carp moving into the area .
13 So when I look in someone 's sore throat I am looking for signs of inflammation and enlarged glands .
14 Quoting reseller sources briefed by the company , Computer Reseller News is looking for Sun to phase out the ELC and Sparcstation 2 to make room for new Tsunami-run IPCs and IPXs .
15 SUN LOOKING FOR HOME FOR HYPERSPARC
16 And Roland was looking for sources for Ash 's Garden of Proserpina .
17 They compared the chemistry with that of run-off for the land , looking for sources of nitrogen .
18 He said the gear , similar to that used for sub-surface profiling while looking for echoes during North Sea exploration , is sitting unused in a laboratory .
19 Then , right after he and Mr. Mendez left , a mustered-out soldier from Thomas came in looking for passage to Bisbee .
20 When either looking for blocks of text from other documents to include in the new document database or when considering new additions to the semantic net itself , preference was given to additions that would make the semantic net manifest more analogical inheritance .
21 Says the diligent pilot : ‘ It is harder than you would have thought possible to identify fuel-contaminated water from avgas if your mindset is looking for globules of water in the bottom of a column of fuel .
22 Looking for lines of descent with modification had not merely led to finding interesting fossils , but had also produced better understanding of how existing species fit together .
23 One librarian felt so hard up that she had begun looking for bargains at car boot sales — ‘ Adrian Mole in mint condition for 20p ’ — a practice which raises many questions about funding our schools .
24 A recent analysis from Jones Lang Wootton shows that demand for business space is still growing faster in the south east than in other regions with about half of the firms surveyed looking for premises outside London .
25 Martin Woodcock 's paintings of all known cotingas are generously proportioned and The Cotingas is an inspiration to any adventurous ornithologist looking for areas of study where he might still contribute to science by straightforward observation .
26 ‘ As usual we 're looking for areas of improvement , ’ said Ron .
27 Bill gave up his job of 20 years as a tea taster and blender , exchanging the daily ‘ trundling up to London in a bowler hat for driving about 1,000 miles each week looking for antiques with Angela ’ .
28 We are , he thinks , entering a period of new morality , when people would be looking for lack of stress , believing that the quality of life would transcend monetary reward .
29 Hudson Bay is currently looking for sites in Newcastle and Middlesbrough to open up its drive-through operations .
30 He is now concentrating on providing M&A services to Japanese clients looking for acquisitions in Europe , Japanese clients looking for domestic acquisitions and European clients looking for Japanese acquisitions .
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