Example sentences of "say [prep] be looking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interest was also expressed over another site in the village , adjacent to the school , which East Hampshire District Council were said to be looking at with a view to a second affordable housing development . |
| 2 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp is said to be looking to the second source agreement with Digital Equipment Corp on the Alpha RISC to build a new base for its semiconductor business : the company gave up manufacturing its own mainframe and mid-range computers several years ago , in favour of selling IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co machines on an OEM basis , and focusing its strategy on client-server systems , where it was assisted by its purchase of the Apricot Computers Ltd hardware division — but Apricot insists that it is 100% wedded to the Intel Corp iAPX-86 architecture and has no plans to build Alpha machines , although if the instruction comes in from Tokyo , it wo n't have much option ; there is an element of two-timing in Mitsubishi Electric signing up with DEC because it is already a member of the Hewlett-Packard Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 3 | Fiat is said to be looking for a partner for its car business . |
| 4 | Auspex Systems Inc , the Santa Clara , California network server company that struck up a deal with IBM recently ( UX No 369 ) , is said to be looking to expand its operations internationally , before going public , possibly by the end of the year . |
| 5 | The Clinton administration is said to be looking again at the tangible objectives underlying the federal government 's support for research ( see page 776 ) , while the British government , in the shape of the Department of Trade and Industry , is seeking a more direct ( if a more avuncular than the American ) role in fostering industrial competitiveness . |