Example sentences of "in [pron] quest for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the blacks , too , the war proved an important stage in their quest for a better deal . |
| 2 | That might encourage more young Britons to stay on at school in their quest for a good job . |
| 3 | " Men were driven by greed and terror " in their quest for a new lord . |
| 4 | The order of the book as laid out is thus merely a façade , disguising a deeper , underlying order , and , in effect , what Cortázar is inviting us to do is to throw off our habitual passiveness , to reject the given and to join him and Oliveira in their quest for a different , more authentic order . |
| 5 | The first initiative taken by the government in its quest for a rational means of financially managing public sector higher education was to ask the House of Commons Select Committee on Education , Science and Arts , under the Chairmanship of Christopher Price MP , to examine the matter . |
| 6 | In his quest for a good time , Reid partied and drank his way through his considerable salary . |
| 7 | He had not told her initially because he was by no means sure that she would be anything more than just another fling and , in his quest for an easy life , did not want to complicate things by admitting the relationship . |
| 8 | .18 Castleford … … .18 THE NOTE in the programme wishing Graham Steadman success in his quest for an international cap was not entirely altruistic . |
| 9 | Join us in our quest for the classic canteen . |