Example sentences of "[prep] search of [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Costs are also driving businessmen from the tigers to move on more quickly than the Japanese in search of cheaper workers . |
| 2 | They did n't really need it , of course , since it was a lovely warm summer 's day , but the twins clearly thought it a great adventure , busily insisting on helping Ross by scampering about the bay in search of small pieces of wood to add to the bonfire . |
| 3 | Their long mobile noses are used for rooting around in search of small animals . |
| 4 | The factory farm doors are now being flung open and the terrible truth behind them is driving shoppers away from chops and steaks and poultry of unknown origin and sending them flocking in search of free-range eggs and chickens . |
| 5 | In our explorations , ostensibly in search of good compositions to sketch , we often came upon the nuns : a solitary sister on her knees in front of a grotto , a nervous magpie secreting days off purgatory , would fly up ; a group of novices , disturbed roller-skating or playing the guitar , would look to their novice-mistress for permission to accept a boiled sweet . |
| 6 | He stumped off , in search of split infinitives and incorrect usages of the adverb ‘ hopefully ’ , and the Last of the Hippies picked up his Moonchild or Starbeam or whatever , and calmed her down . |
| 7 | Armed only with a sketchbook , Olwen travels all over the country in search of botanical gardens and interesting conservatories . |
| 8 | Pension fund managers were again in search of high-yielding stocks to protect their incomes after the Budget changes . |
| 9 | I thought of the shoppers ’ day trips to Northern Ireland in search of cheap goods , and tried enumerating the benefits Ireland might receive from a Reunion with the rest of Britain . |
| 10 | ANY GIVEN weekday night , the 8.00 from Coventry to Birmingham carries a cargo of young gig-goers from the smaller city to Brum , all in search of cheap thrills , sexual gratification , spiritual uplift and all this at the Smashing Pumpkins ' gig at Aston University . |
| 11 | So after that they staggered happily to Hamley 's in search of mechanical toys for themselves , and passed a record shop on the way that reminded Arthur of something . |
| 12 | Malekith begins his great period of wandering around the world in search of magical artefacts of elder times . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , in these conditions , the Swamp Eel has adapted by being able to breathe atmospheric air during the times of drought when the swamps dry up , aestivating ( the summer version of hibernating ) until more favourable conditions return , by burrowing into the mud or travelling across land in search of alternative waterways . |
| 14 | The answer was mixed : virtually no scope at all for 155mm artillery shells ( which sent the MOD scurrying off in search of extra supplies on the world market ) ; but plenty for 120mm tank shells . |
| 15 | Also in search of all episodes of The Colbys on tape VHS , PAL , NTSC ) . |
| 16 | Edward 's first year at Oxford , with its long hours of set daily lectures and prepared reading , its loneliness punctuated by long walks , longer letters , and occasional forays in search of new friendships , formed a gentle transition from the two years of freedom he had enjoyed , since leaving St. Paul 's , towards the severer demands that family and social demands were to make upon him . |
| 17 | When not banging on about the sins of Vin Garbutt , the shaggy-haired Teesside warbler responsible for Little Innocents and other anti-abortion songs , certain feminist folkies have taken to conducting vigilante patrols through Folk Roots magazine in search of new sources of offence . |
| 18 | Having emptied the citadel of gold and silver he left Limoges and went off in search of new sources of pay for his mercenaries . |
| 19 | But as Chapman set about maintaining the momentum of his Northampton team after their 1909 Championship , and went in search of new players , transfer fees were not a problem . |
| 20 | This is paid back gradually in rent from the co-operative 's members and the council 's cash goes off in search of new schemes to finance . |
| 21 | Rarely if ever do SMEs go out in search of new technologies . |
| 22 | The conditions of service , the harshness of the environment , the atrocious difficulties associated with travel and food supplies , the ravages of scurvy , and the son of men who went out in search of new lands for the tsar , all contributed to the tense atmosphere which sometimes erupted into bloody conflict . |
| 23 | Adventurous skiers in search of new experiences are shunning the drag-lifts and climbing the slopes themselves . |
| 24 | The open air theme , eventually to become epitomized by visions of Woodstock and the Rolling Stones performing live in Hyde Park , was itself a throwback from Kerouac 's On the Road : because the road became the central symbol of his disciples ' lives — hitting it in search of new horizons when the local scene became dull . |
| 25 | They are designed to be portable and enable herdsmen and hunters to move around the countryside in search of new pastures for their camels , sheep and yak . |
| 26 | John , required to mount his ballets but nothing else , had time to visit art galleries or schools in search of new ideas or designers , to listen to music , to read . |
| 27 | Many of these mature offspring of the root form work their way to the surface and those which are winged fly off in search of new vines . |
| 28 | Che Guevara , on an extensive tour in search of new markets for Cuban goods , had met two Soviet representatives in Egypt in August , with whom he concluded an agreement by which the Soviet Union bought 170,000 tons of sugar at the world market price . |
| 29 | Red faces all round at Chase Manhattan following a foray into London 's docklands in search of new offices . |
| 30 | Like many of the heroes of his novels — notably Moira , recently reissued in English by Quartet Books — he is someone who gave himself over to pleasure in his youth , travelling endlessly in search of new sensations , both enslaved to sensuality and contemptuous of it — in his own words , ‘ crucified by sex ’ . |