Example sentences of "[adj] search for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rights were conferred upon one Thomas Thurland ( a clergyman and Master of the Savoy Hospital ) , Sebastian Spydell and John Steynbergh as early as 1561 to search for mineral thought little positive was achieved . |
| 2 | It should be possible to search for specified strings of text and modify these either individually or collectively . |
| 3 | DAVE SEXTON , the England Under-21 manager , is prepared to search for friendly fixtures if his side fall out of the European Championships at the qualifying stage for the first time in 12 years . |
| 4 | At a time when it is increasingly popular to search for complex explanations for continuing or increasing levels of unsafe sexual behaviour among gay and bisexual men the most obvious explanation — lack of continuing education about safer sex — must not be overlooked . |
| 5 | There were many tracks all going the same way , each searching for a firmness absent from the rest . |
| 6 | The latter pointed out that , while there was a general process of restructuring , the way it worked out in practice was different from case to case and that therefore it was pointless to search for highly regular patterns . |
| 7 | On the grounds that these seem to be used paradigmatically for ordering , questioning and asserting , respectively , one might argue that it is pointless to search for internal linguistic motivations for these three sentence-types : they recur in the languages of the world because humans are , perhaps , specifically concerned with three functions of language in particular — the organizing of other persons ' actions , the eliciting of information , and the conveying of-formation . |
| 8 | For those seeking bhavana , it is ready to be discerned in a hundred daily occurrences : it will be manifested in a small or generous action ; and there is a joy in the mere searching for this bhavana in the everyday world . |
| 9 | ‘ What you are saying is that I am not so much searching for Harry , rather , Harry is winding me in , like a fish on a line — ’ |
| 10 | Produce your passport and at least two documents to prove that you are worthy to search for the Stone : press-cuttings , letters from people for whom you have performed daring tasks , or other documents . |
| 11 | It serves to remind us that the collapse of the old political certitudes in Eastern Europe and the awakening of new political alternatives to market capitalism are precisely of a piece with the erasure of the old artistic ‘ avant-garde ’ and the ceaseless searching for the ‘ new ’ . |
| 12 | In fact it is futile to search for a rigorous definition which will ‘ correctly ’ locate the division between the ‘ working class ’ and the ‘ middle class ’ in Britain . |
| 13 | 17 to search for gold is the outlook for the future ( 8 ) |
| 14 | When they came near the princess 's tower they saw a great number of people , all walking in the meadows , all searching for the princess 's lost keys . |
| 15 | I could have gone with it , giving myself four blissful miles of upland walking followed by as many miserable hours of fruitless searching for return transport to East Kielder Farm . |
| 16 | At Puente Ruinas she lost her glasses and we all searched for them as if she had been our lifelong friend . |
| 17 | It is , therefore , most important to search for all the possible angles to a question , and this involves reading the question with meticulous care . |
| 18 | In this way researchers are able to search for direct comparisons between reports and to isolate categories of phenomena . |
| 19 | Until about eighteen months or so they will typically be unable to search for objects which have been displaced invisibly ( by transposing containers , for example ) . |
| 20 | According to a survey of property valuers , 25% of those searching for a new home would prefer to live in an Avenue , while 20% would like a Lane . |
| 21 | William Sherard wrote to Richard Richardson about those searching for new plants in Austria , Hungary , Spain and Italy and added ‘ if you meet with any berries of Juniperus alpinus , pray gather some for him ’ . |
| 22 | By 1920 those searching for better defences against microbial infection had had many setbacks . |
| 23 | Today , those searching for similar democratic party structures may well identify with Labour Party values , moreover may see the Labour Party as the successor to the SDP in assuming this role , but feels deterred , or even intimidated , by trades union domination with block voting and ‘ baronial ’ patronage . |
| 24 | But for those searching for the stuff of rock'n'roll greatness , as yet they lack the scope and dynamics which is an essential ingredient . |
| 25 | For those searching for a short break that is just that little bit different , you are invited to make your selection for this year 's choice of special themed weekend breaks . |
| 26 | 6 Searching for food |
| 27 | If not , then keep him busy searching for the murderer of Alexander III . |
| 28 | A few scrawny chickens were busy searching for scraps , while half a dozen black pigs grunted among the roots of hedges of sago , or round the slim pawpaw trees bending under the weight of their fruit . |
| 29 | It was a day like those searched for by Northerners in the south of France or the Greek islands . |
| 30 | Competence becomes manifest at that age ; and it is essential to search for its precursors to test whether current techniques are too blunt to detect ‘ latent competence ’ , current models too imprecise to point research optimally in that direction , and current theory too stark in the distinctions it draws to serve the interests of process models . |