Example sentences of "[pron] search for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHELSEA last night moved a step closer to signing Russian international Dimitri Kharin and ending their search for chastised goalkeeper Dave Beasant 's replacement . |
| 2 | In their search for alternative supplies , English furniture makers turned to other parts of Europe and , more important , to the New World . |
| 3 | The growing pressure to reduce state expenditure on space projects ( estimated to have been about US$2,200 million in 1988 ) continued to stimulate Soviet space agencies and scientists in their search for alternative sources of financing . |
| 4 | Now , there are customers who in their search for suitable materials prefer to study copious technical data sheets . |
| 5 | Its primary function was to generate goodwill among the Mediterranean non-aligned states for Soviet policies and to encourage these countries in their search for effective measures for the demilitarisation of the Mediterranean region . |
| 6 | Both travelled widely in their search for new specimen plants and , on their sojourns , amassed an amazing collection of ethnographical curios and shells which they housed at Lambeth in a room known as ‘ The Ark ’ . |
| 7 | DARLINGTON will step up their search for new talent this week . |
| 8 | Soviet officials have considered it necessary , however , to gloss over their search for naval facilities in the Mediterranean to encourage neutralism and maintain pressure on Western bases in other countries in the region . |
| 9 | Another example of a conflict between official and unofficial group norms can be drawn from a situation where a group itself decides to operate a certain level of output over a given time , regardless of targets set by the management in their search for increased efficiency and productivity . |
| 10 | The questions will explore : claimants ' work history and perceptions of their job prospects ; their experience of claiming benefits and the effect it has had on their search for paid employment : their awareness of dependency on the state on their own part and among other claimers : and their general ideas about the role of claimant . |
| 11 | Today police stepped up their search for possible witnesses . |
| 12 | Debris from buildings blown up by militants lies strewn between houses vandalised by the security forces in their search for Kashmiri militants . |
| 13 | At the back of the hotel the army suddenly produced a generator designed to penetrate the deepest slumber and then added a searchlight which they shone , lighting up not only the surrounding countryside in their search for Red Brigade terrorists , but our hotel rooms as well . |
| 14 | His Experiments and Observations was avidly read by the Montgolfier brothers during their search for light permanent gases as lifting agents in 1782–83 . |
| 15 | Zurich has benefited in its search for profitable target markets from having a strong international network , built up over nearly a century , with operations in 40 countries . |
| 16 | During the next few months , Network Development will be stepping up its search for possible locations , and branches will often be requested to supply local knowledge when new sites are identified . |
| 17 | It 's claimed that the secret GCHQ listening centre is even trawling through personal phone calls abroad in its search for useful information . |
| 18 | The anti-democratic movement , which calls itself the anti-tribal movement , is considering widening the net in its search for suitable replacement students . |
| 19 | This is a hazardous undertaking in tropical seas because of the sharp coral , which almost comes alive in its search for human feet . |
| 20 | Dry rot exhibits an almost uncanny knowledge of the presence of timber and is able to thrust through brickwork mortar joints and to travel across brickwork behind plaster over great distances in its search for fresh food . |
| 21 | However , his search for alternative employment has so far met with no success . |
| 22 | He had plugged his new film , discussed his talented family , talked about his work in the theatre , and we had listened attentively while he outlined his search for spiritual enlightenment and concern about the problems in Tibet . |
| 23 | Convinced that he was getting somewhere at last in his search for admissible evidence , Shaughnessy now turned to several other lines of inquiry . |
| 24 | In his search for loyal men to reassert royal authority in the aftermath of Buckingham 's rebellion Richard did not , as is often implied , turn to northerners as such . |
| 25 | In his search for loyal men to reassert royal authority in the aftermath of Buckingham 's rebellion Richard did not , as is often implied , turn to northerners as such . |
| 26 | It is the story of his search for cultural and historical identity and is , in this sense , a personal exploration as well as a travel book . |
| 27 | It is not exactly an auspicious beginning to our search for Victorian civility , and if we journey up North things are no better . |
| 28 | In short , restoring ordinary people as part of the we who run things , rather than the them for obstacles to be regulated , managed , I fear even duped and certainly simply left out , and the chief place to focus our search for pragmatic coalitions and cooperative democracy must be in our local communities . |