Example sentences of "[be] looking " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
| 2 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Professor Howard has been looking for you , ’ she informed me . |
| 4 | ‘ What am I supposed to have been looking for ? ’ |
| 5 | If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last . |
| 6 | St. Jennifer , Big Sister , Robin Hood of the workers — Who 's been looking after Mummy , d' you imagine ? ’ |
| 7 | I felt really devastated that we lost and for that reason I have been looking forward to playing in this event again . ’ |
| 8 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 9 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 10 | The German bank has been looking for a French opening for its global expansion for some time . |
| 11 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 12 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 13 | ‘ And what have you been looking so pleased about this week ? |
| 14 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 15 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 16 | Since 1977 Brown had been looking to buy a business in Scotland , where his family , roots and contacts are . |
| 17 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 18 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 19 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 20 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 21 | Morgan has been looking for a white knight for the last two weeks since insurance broker Willis Faber announced it was selling its 20 per cent stake in the merchant bank to Banque Indosuez , part of Compagnie Financiere de Suez . |
| 22 | There was no comfort either in Mr Ben Ali 's speech for the other opposition parties which , after their poor results in the elections , had been looking for government help . |
| 23 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 24 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 25 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 26 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 27 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
| 28 | The faint-object camera has also been looking at the remnants of the supernova which excited astronomers in 1987 . |
| 29 | Dr Briggs and Richard Fortey ( of London 's Natural History Museum ) have been looking at new ways of classifying the various arthropods in the Burgess . |
| 30 | Each is eager to present himself as the most qualified man to head off protectionist measures and to restore Japan 's good name , which lately has been looking a little tarnished . |