Example sentences of "[noun] to search for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They travel in large concentrated groups to search for food , particularly when herding shoaling pelagic ( open sea ) fish . |
| 2 | Next morning Dairyman Crick sent all the dairy people out into a field to search for garlic plants . |
| 3 | Thereafter , the growing concern over inflation , steep rises in household rates , growth of public spending , and the activities of left-wing Labour authorities led the Conservatives to search for economy . |
| 4 | Mr Escobar , in a letter to La Prensa , called for ‘ direct dialogue to search for peace ’ , with participation by government , opposition , judicial , church and journalism representatives . |
| 5 | AN angler dug into the annals of history to win the right to search for bait . |
| 6 | An additional power is given by section 8 which allows an application to be made to a magistrate for a warrant to search for evidence of a serious arrestable offence . |
| 7 | It is an offence to obstruct the police in their efforts to search for evidence of a drug offence . |
| 8 | ( The lack of teeth in terms of penalties is compounded by a lack of powers to search for evidence of abuses . ) |
| 9 | Under the provisions of PACE , the police now have powers to search for evidence prior to charging a suspect . |
| 10 | Both teachers and the school librarian will be monitoring pupils ' responses to 1 ) information skills planning sheets 2 ) the keyword approach to identifying the purpose of , searching for and using information 3 ) using a microcomputer to search for information 4 ) worksheets on note taking , organizing and presenting information A report on the project will be drawn up in Term 3 . |
| 11 | This , he thought , was a very disturbing reflection on modern life , and one which led some religious fundamentalists to search for satanism everywhere . |
| 12 | That is , instead of using the card catalogue , the pupils could use the microcomputer in the school library to search for information on a particular topic . |
| 13 | Thus coercion is indirectly efficacious in altering people 's disposition to search for truth , and consequently the godly magistrate should use force . |
| 14 | According to a Chinese source originally published in 1637 , women were made to strip and wade in streams to search for jade pebbles . |
| 15 | The thieves were said to enter the house at night , tie up the persons inside , threaten to murder them if they made any noise , dig up the floor to search for money , and so on . |
| 16 | Indeed , where the bank or other party refuses to co-operate and the offence is serious , or is likely to lead to substantial financial gain or loss to any person , the same act allows the police to search for evidence which has the intention of furthering a criminal purpose , and in such cases this provision overrides legal privilege . |
| 17 | For example , if the school library 's catalogue is on-line , it will be possible for pupils to search for information from the classroom . |
| 18 | The program being used is KWIRS2 which allows the pupils to search for information using Boolean logic . |
| 19 | He had been in correspondence with Ho , and now determined to make a personal visit to Hanoi to search for peace . |
| 20 | A major challenge in the management of electronic records is to bridge the technical divides in how the information is stored and ‘ re integrate ’ information to present the user with the ability to search for information according to their own agenda , not the organisation 's technical architecture . |
| 21 | This was the essence of the problem : the press could only be managed by someone who knew their methods and who would not expect them to come round to Central Office to search for news . |
| 22 | Her voice was muffled when she crawled under the oilcloth-covered table to search for Quimper bits . |
| 23 | A detective in the Republic said last night the gang kept elderly people chatting at their door while another member entered the house to search for cash and valuables . |
| 24 | They felt stigmatized , as skilled men , by taking unskilled work , and it left them no time to search for work at their trade . |
| 25 | With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned . |