Example sentences of "the search for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the wider group of Moslem countries , Iranian and Pakistani leaders were closely associated with the search for a peace formula . |
| 2 | The search for a synthesis had angered supporters of the Shatalin plan , Yeltsin on Sept. 1 dismissing it as trying to " mate a hedgehog with a snake " , and adding his voice to the growing public clamour for Ryzhkov and his government to resign . |
| 3 | What sustains me in the search for a response to Gettier is the feeling that it may be possible to find an account of what knowledge is which will have a substantial effect on what we are to say about justification in later parts of this book . |
| 4 | Run by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society the five and a quarter mile line came into being after the search for a branch line home elsewhere in Scotland had failed to bring success . |
| 5 | Will the search for a successor to Sir Roger be any easier a year hence ? |
| 6 | Sixty-two years later Charles Black , Adam 's grandson and current chairman , has been sent the same manuscript ( which incidentally has survived a direct hit by a flying bomb in the Second World War ) by a descendant of the colonel who has taken up the search for a publisher . |
| 7 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 8 | The inner cabinet meeting had been billed as being vital for the search for a settlement in the region and the future of the national-unity government . |
| 9 | He urged the constitutional politicians to renew the search for a settlement and said people should speak out against prejudice and bigotry and on behalf of reconciliation and peace . |
| 10 | Police have scaled down the search for a man who commited at least two rapes , because they have no other leads to follow . |
| 11 | By Caroline Storah crime reporter THE search for a man police want to interview in connection with the murder of a Liverpool pub landlady today switched back to Merseyside . |
| 12 | Men who had been unsuccessful in the search for a day 's work drifted into the dining rooms to pass the time away and many sat there on the bench seats , grateful for the warmth and a friendly chat . |
| 13 | The negative side of the local sign theory is what is left over when the search for a sign of location is abandoned . |
| 14 | So the search for a route through was on . |
| 15 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? a goal |
| 16 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? a goal |
| 17 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? a path |
| 18 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? may be either |
| 19 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? a goal |
| 20 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? a goal |
| 21 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? a path |
| 22 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? a goal |
| 23 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? a path |
| 24 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? a goal |
| 25 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? a goal ; but the planning version is for a path |
| 26 | Is the search for a goal or for a path ? a goal |
| 27 | The search for a laterality index that is not biased with respect to accuracy recently led Bryden and Sprott ( 1981 ) to propose the adoption of a new index , lamda , based on the log odds ratios ( P/ ( l — P ) ; P/ ( l -P ) where PR and P , are the respective probabilities of a correct response at the left and right sides . |
| 28 | The delinquency undertaken by these youths is the result of certain actions which they feel are not very remarkable , based around the search for a bit of interest and excitement . |
| 29 | It is the beginning of the search for a confession rather than the conclusion of a well-managed police operation . |
| 30 | In the 1970s the search for a room temperature superconductor led chemists to look at one-dimensional organic conductors and semiconductors . |