Example sentences of "[is] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , syphilis is a systemic infection and , if the treponeme is looked for , it will be found to be affecting many different organs in the body , from the liver to the lungs and the brain to the bones . |
| 2 | Often , when some rare modern book is looked for , it is a Boots copy that is finally located . |
| 3 | Note that although not required in law , corroboration of the victim 's evidence is looked for in practice . |
| 4 | Corroboration is looked for in practice and the following circumstances will usually amount to corroboration : |
| 5 | The simplest accommodation is all that is looked for , just good clean sleeping rooms with blankets , somewhere to eat and a place to shelter from inclement weather . |
| 6 | It can be immensely useful — and that is what is looked for with lateral thinking — or it can be false . |
| 7 | In a mass item , although a high standard is looked for , the large number required may bring about a variation in levels of performance and the contents needs to allow for this ( e.g. working in sections ) . |
| 8 | Nothing fancy is looked for in the way of bait and tackle : it 's the basic hook , line and worm . |
| 9 | Right so that 's looked for at birth , what 's the other thing they check for at birth ? |
| 10 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 11 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 12 | No drama school panel is looking for the ultimate in audition technique but candidates should possess a noticeable degree of competence and self-awareness . |
| 13 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 14 | He is looking for a partner to retain the pub as a viable business . |
| 15 | Nasty as this sounds , it is what your vet is looking for . |
| 16 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 17 | Kevin Feeny at Warburg Securities is looking for £242m against £183m with £650m pencilled in for the year . |
| 18 | JULIO ANGUITA , the leader of the Spanish Communist Party , is looking for the thief in Madrid who smashed his windscreen and broke into his car for the third time . |
| 19 | Georgina Philippou , at stockbroker Marshall & Co , is looking for more than £30m ( £18.5m ) for the year . |
| 20 | With the appointments the board retains a quorum , and Mr James is looking for two more members for the team . |
| 21 | However , BWD Rensburg , the broker , is looking for pre-tax profits of about £1.2m in the year ending 31 March against £1.04m reported for last year . |
| 22 | The Conservative Party is not looking for experts , but it is looking for men and women who have a good working knowledge of contemporary politics and a proven track record of experience in the party , and who above all know their own minds . |
| 23 | London Jazz Radio , winners of the lucrative London-wide FM frequency station , is looking for a February launch . |
| 24 | What Fussell is looking for are the records of the little people , to discover what the war was like for them . |
| 25 | Analyst Mark Simpson is looking for profits of £2.4m this year and £2.85m next year . |
| 26 | Britain is looking for something new from this conference . |
| 27 | Girobank is looking for JA Ashton , a mythical customer whose name has appears in brochures and leaflets promoting the bank 's services . |
| 28 | Along with luck , this is the scarce commodity which no one in the music business can manufacture and which everyone in the industry is looking for . |
| 29 | Zelda West-Meads of Relate adds , ‘ Here someone is looking for their ideal , but she does n't exist . |
| 30 | If the EC is looking for ways to help the reform process in Central Europe , it should dust off Article 238 of the Treaty of Rome , whose benign language allows ‘ Association ’ of almost any kind . |