Example sentences of "[subord] looking for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has sought to highlight the positive ethical and aesthetic implications of Victorian science as they appear in literature ( rather than looking for further ammunition for what she calls the sterile and artificial battle of literature against science ) . |
| 2 | Rather than looking for formal ‘ truth conditions ’ in an utterance , Rommetveit prefers to start from H. James ' point ‘ we trade on each other 's truths ’ ( Rommetveit , 1982 ) . |
| 3 | Rather than looking for deviations from pattern , perhaps one should be looking at the patterns produced by the modes of rationality which agents typically find it conventional to construct . |
| 4 | So this slightly different than looking for angles is n't it . |
| 5 | It argues that if child support was received in addition to income support the resulting higher incomes would mean that more lone mothers would remain longer on benefit rather than looking for paid employment . |
| 6 | The argument is , and I accept the fact , that bowlers probably prefer their keepers standing back taking catches rather than looking for rare leg-side stumping opportunities . ’ |
| 7 | The project , established in tandem with a similar effort mounted by the US Administration 's Environmental Protection Agency , aims to encourage business to monitor its entire production process rather than looking for piecemeal solutions . |
| 8 | The reader may be doomed to disappointment in reading through an article with wide contextual terms of reference if looking for something as simple as descriptions of works of art , their interpretation and evaluation . |
| 9 | Clive searched his pockets , as if looking for a train ticket . |
| 10 | Its engine is missing badly and it 's circling round as if looking for a landing-place . |
| 11 | as if looking for a quarrel he went on to exaggerate the uncompromising nature of his position . |
| 12 | She examined her hands , white with chalk , as if looking for the source of some small pain , then gave up on that and began to dust herself down . |
| 13 | Mounce held the note up to the light , as if looking for a watermark . |
| 14 | He glanced back as if looking for signs of pursuit . |
| 15 | The blackjack tail as if looking for a target , |
| 16 | They had waterskied , swooping round the northern end of Inch Island , making great arcs along the shore , as if looking for something . |
| 17 | All three glanced about the dockside , as if looking for somebody else . |
| 18 | Fortunately , Nevil was n't looking in his mirror , he had his head out of the driver 's window as if looking for a street name . |
| 19 | Occasionally birds disturb mulches while looking for food |
| 20 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 21 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 22 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 23 | The Howard Beach outrage , when a young black man was killed while looking for a public phone in an Italian neighbourhood , provided much of the inspiration for Spike Lee 's Do The Right Thing . |
| 24 | The shooting of Yusef Hawkins last year while looking for a car in another mainly white area of the city led X-Clan to organise ‘ The Taking Of The Brooklyn Bridge ’ , when 10,000 black youths occupied one of the bridges connecting Manhattan Island to the rest of New York in a living roadblock . |
| 25 | Earlier in the day , while looking for the swimming-pool , I had found myself in a park containing the largest number of fire-engines I had ever seen . |
| 26 | Next in importance would come the discovery in 1964 of the cosmic background itself , by two scientists from the US Bell Labs , Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson , who stumbled on it while looking for ways of eliminating noise in radio receivers . |
| 27 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 28 | In the pursuit of authenticity and while looking for original P-40 coolers , the reconstruction crew located a man in Alaska who , after the war , had dug up quite a bit of military surplus from land-fills in his State . |
| 29 | Chant 's body was discovered the following day by 93-year-old Albert Burke , who found it while looking for his errant mongrel , Kipper . |
| 30 | I am continually reappraising in my own mind their strengths while looking for their weaknesses ( although there are depressingly few of these visible ) . |