Example sentences of "[verb] look for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , the disability rights movement has looked for lessons from abroad when drawing up a manifesto for reform . |
| 2 | But to get the full benefit of the new tax regime these married women will need to look for investments that pay interest gross . |
| 3 | Not only are we all primed to look for regularities , we tend to perceive the same regularities . |
| 4 | Scotland 's Under-21 side will contain six First Division players and one from the Second Division in an experimental gathering designed to look for players eligible to take part in the summer 's world invitation event in Toulon . |
| 5 | erm , but I do n't see why she ca n't , whenever she wants to look for files , copy files and sort out other people 's mess |
| 6 | I was too anxious to go looking for birds or small animals which , I fancied , might be caught half-frozen in the undergrowth . |
| 7 | It 's not in her blood , as dyke or Jew , to go looking for converts . |
| 8 | Worthington stressed : ‘ They are not world football powers by any means but they are among the most difficult places to go looking for results . |
| 9 | You can SCAN , which involves just looking quickly at each page , to pick out anything which you recognise as being relevant to you , and which you can then read in detail ( scanning involves looking for keywords ) . |
| 10 | The method outlined in this section for detecting interactions involves looking for differences in the magnitude of the ds . |
| 11 | When the Government closed two settlement camps near Cirencester in the early sixties , it was here they came looking for jobs . |
| 12 | We had only really talked to Mr Postman on the regular occasions — Dusshera , Diwali , Christmas , New Year — that he came looking for tips , but were flattered by the invitation and out of curiosity decided to take it up . |
| 13 | A recent analysis from Jones Lang Wootton shows that demand for business space is still growing faster in the south east than in other regions with about half of the firms surveyed looking for premises outside London . |
| 14 | Questions should therefore be framed to look for attitudes of mind rather than simple quantity and frequency of use . |
| 15 | They should be taught to look for instances where : |
| 16 | In some perhaps not fully conscious way critics tend to look for faults in Othello , errors of personality or upbringing ( to neo-Freudians his sexual hang-ups ) , that will explain why he believes Iago and murders Desdemona . |
| 17 | Mr Bryan Goddard , theatre director , said staff would keep looking for ways to improve the bar service , including encouraging people to order beforehand . |
| 18 | ‘ Veronica and I are going to look for mushrooms . ’ |
| 19 | Yeah , right , now we 're going to look for diamonds , where were they looking for diamonds ? |
| 20 | The scientist has to remember a great deal of information before he can even begin to look for patterns in the data . |
| 21 | The chi square test was used to look for differences between tokens of the two word classes in two linguistic environments ; but decisions concerning the environments and the type of differences to be examined depended on a great deal of phonological , sociolinguistic and historical linguistic information . |
| 22 | The analyses are used to look for patterns in the types of information available from stimuli which may account for the previous risk and recognition results and the relationships between risk and recognition . |
| 23 | He says the players ca n't wait around while negotiations go on — they 've got to look for jobs elsewhere straight away . |
| 24 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 25 | While controversy rages , Stan , unruffled by the fuss , keeps looking for fossils . |
| 26 | After I had written my letter of acceptance to Bedford I began to look for digs nearer the university : I was determined to show some independence . |
| 27 | De Gaulle 's interest in this reform picked up noticeably in the spring of 1962 , as he began to look for ways of heading off parliamentary moves to reduce his role . |
| 28 | Inevitably Americans began to look for ways to prevent a war in Europe from spreading to the American homeland . |
| 29 | Within the Labour Party the Socialist League was finding that its attempts to remould policy were resented and rejected and it began to look for allies outside the Party . |
| 30 | She went over to her bookshelves , and began to look for books that Jamie might find useful in writing his article . |