Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] are look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The figures we found are not significantly different to those anywhere else where people are looking for the problem . ’ |
| 2 | Analysts at Phillips & Drew are looking for profits up from £5.9m to Pounds 10m , with the dividend rising to 5.6p . |
| 3 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 4 | When men are asked what they think that women are looking for , the picture becomes very intriguing — particularly when they are also asked to rate themselves on these attributes ( see table , right ) . |
| 5 | The believe that what women are looking for is sensitivity , though they also say that women are looking for funloving men . |
| 6 | Easter , eight o'clock , half-seven my brother and sister are looking for Easter eggs in the house . |
| 7 | Secondly , in times of recession , publishers and booksellers are looking for every marketing opportunity to find new business and the LIBF is the trade 's largest gathering . ’ |
| 8 | Ralph and Philip are looking for local sponsors to donate money to their twin charities . |
| 9 | Drawings can be blamed when er there is actually nothing wrong and people are looking for an excuse blame from themselves . |
| 10 | Agents Mathews and Goodman are looking for rents of around ££10 a sq ft for space in Martin 's Building as it becomes free for letting with a range of suites up to 14,000 sq ft being available . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Paul and Malcolm are looking for potential workers , paid and unpaid . |
| 12 | Green shoots or otherwise , the effects of recession continue to bite and booksellers and publishers are looking for innovative and more profitable ways of doing business . |
| 13 | When speakers are looking for different ways of accomplishing the same goal ( in Coveney 's example , successfully requesting information ) they are not limited to the various possibilities in the linguistic system for constructing formal interrogatives . |
| 14 | Consumer affairs minister Baroness Denton said : ‘ It is far too easy to mistake these products for sweets , and when parents are looking for stocking fillers these items may be very appealing . |