Example sentences of "to look [prep] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The classic one of the unmarried daughter who stays at home to look after parents for instance .
2 Mr Fallon plans to ask Christopher Chope to look into plans for road narrowing and speed humps at Lakeside , Darlington .
3 To set against this trend , however , there was much evidence to support the view that the public continued to look to government for assistance .
4 Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support .
5 IF BILL CLINTON were to look to Florida for advice on how to pass a health-care bill , the answer might come back in the words of Lyndon Johnson : better to have your enemies inside your tent pissing out , than outside pissing in .
6 Today America must be able to look to Europe for support in containing less predictable threats to the values they have in common from outside Europe .
7 Thirdly , the chapter has suggested that , in seeking to reconcile these conflicting objectives , mothers ( and fathers ) have to look to others for help .
8 Concluding that there was no economic justification for phasing out the stations before the end of their planned lives , it also told Nuclear Electric that it would be willing to look at plans for capital spending to extend the life of the stations .
9 It also began to look at proposals for MA courses , and at its November 1966 meeting , for example , it expressed the view that a proposed MA in Business Administration at Portsmouth College of Technology did not meet the CNAA 's criterion that the content should be substantially postgraduate in character : too much of it was introductory work , insufficiently rooted in the basic disciplines .
10 So th there is plenty of scope erm to look at improvements for pedestrian cyclists and the im environments in general .
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