Example sentences of "looking for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Americans were therefore busily looking for regional allies . |
| 2 | One of these would also make an inexpensive house white for those looking for all-purpose festive bottles . |
| 3 | After re-uniting Tony Cooper with his Spitfire , the restorers now hope to start working on the wings and are looking for bigger premises to enable this work to take place . |
| 4 | A SMALL village business , which is to shortly celebrate its first birthday , has been so successful it could soon be looking for bigger premises . |
| 5 | Banking in particular , seems particularly susceptible to failures in foreign markets caused by reactive pressures — much of the Third World debt problems can be traced to banks looking for easy foreign expansion routes when faced by lack of growth in domestic markets . |
| 6 | Male callers however are far more likely to be looking for easy solutions to a debt problem , usually a further loan or re-mortgage which in the long term will often make the problem worse . |
| 7 | It 's important to him that everyone knows he is the champion , that he is better than anyone else and not necessarily looking for easy pay days . |
| 8 | My master , of course , ambled along like a child and I had to keep him away from the rufflers , those former soldiers looking for easy pickings , the mad Abraham men who danced naked pretending to be insane , the cappers who begged for money and attached horse-locks to the outstretched arms of people stupid enough to give it . |
| 9 | There were very few well-dressed citizens , most of the denizens of the alleyways being rogues and villains ; tinkers , trying to sell without permission from the Guilds , professional beggars , and rat-faced slum dwellers looking for easy prey . |
| 10 | As the recordings ( a co-production with SDR Stuttgart ) are also of notable quality , the result is an issue which can be firmly recommended to those looking for worthwhile versions of these works for their collections . |
| 11 | The 22 NorthEast Rotaract Clubs are looking for worthwhile charities to support in their September fund-raising week . |
| 12 | Shadowfax looking for middle market niche |
| 13 | And I am looking for 100 per cent loyalty . |
| 14 | ‘ It may seem so to you , but you can take my word for it , if I were in the business of prowling around car parks looking for innocent Bentleys to wreck , I most certainly would n't use my own car as a battering-ram . |
| 15 | Despite the reported ‘ need to hear the voice of the Führer again ’ , Hitler 's traditional speech on 30 January 1942 , the anniversary of the ‘ seizure of power ’ , left some feelings of disappointment , since people were looking for comforting or encouraging words about the state of the war in the east and not for just another stereotype repetition of the Nazi Party 's glorious history . |
| 16 | HOST is looking for friendly people who would like to invite a lonely overseas student studying in Britain to spend Christmas , Easter or a weekend in their homes and experience British home life . |
| 17 | I submit , my Lord Mayor , that any decline in the Council 's finances , is due primarily to the Tories originally looking for electoral success . |
| 18 | The second special case simulated is a married man , with a mortgage and some education qualifications , looking for skilled manual work . |
| 19 | TALENT-SPOTTERS from the Derry Youth Theatre group are looking for budding young actors and actresses for a summer production . |
| 20 | So our customers are looking for multi-vendor transparency . |
| 21 | I would like to let the lady looking for standard gooseberry plants ( Question Time , June ) know how I obtained mine . |
| 22 | Ian was still looking for surviving elephants when she arrived back . |
| 23 | However , it is possible to detect HIV infection by looking for specific antibodies . |
| 24 | Looking for specific physical signs , such as the " nodding " head of heroin users , the lack of general motivation in cannabis users , acute wildness in amphetamine or cocaine users or slowness in barbiturate or tranquilliser users may all be totally unrewarding . |
| 25 | AMARC 's current research group is constantly looking for specific applications within the world of medicine which would benefit from automation . |
| 26 | MOTOROLA LOOKING FOR WIDE MARKET FOR POWERPC |
| 27 | He is now concentrating on providing M&A services to Japanese clients looking for acquisitions in Europe , Japanese clients looking for domestic acquisitions and European clients looking for Japanese acquisitions . |
| 28 | While many collectors are turning over every hedge and collective barn they can find within the Russian Republic and its former constituents and satellites for hidden treasures , a small and dedicated band have been scouring the Asia-Pacific region for many decades looking for Japanese material . |
| 29 | It could become a money spinner for farmers looking for alternative crops in the face of expected cutbacks in EC farm support prices . |
| 30 | Staff may , therefore , begin looking for alternative employment in the local area so that they will not be forced to make the choice of a job with their employer or no job at all . |