Example sentences of "in a [adj] search for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against such chilling prospects , Vologsky 's mind rebelled in a frenetic search for hope . |
| 2 | But in a speech to President Suharto and ministers he added : ‘ At times nations are tempted to disregard fundamental human rights in a misguided search for political unity based on military or economic power alone . |
| 3 | The company 's ability to adapt to new opportunities and capitalize on them depends on its capacity to share information and involve everyone in the organization in a systemwide search for ways to improve , adjust , adapt , and upgrade . |
| 4 | Others go in a vain search for it on the sabbath . |
| 5 | I AM one of the thousands of parents who have worn out their shoe leather and their patience in a vain search for the Thunderbirds toys made by Matchbox . |
| 6 | They can often be seen climbing up creosoted telegraph-poles in a vain search for food . |
| 7 | The picture is one of industrial land owners , including English Estates , abandoning the development of industrial premises in a frantic search for the supposedly massive profits to be made from retail developments . |
| 8 | Stretched on the concrete of the yard I gasped and groaned in a frantic search for breath . |
| 9 | The final beautiful , though despairing , image is of smashing the surface of a wall of mountain ice in a futile search for some missing link of meaning or belonging.n But from such exile , we are told , ‘ there is never an emancipation . ’ |
| 10 | Although well-made clubs ought to last a lifetime , I have already owned 16 different sets and tried more than that number in a futile search for The Touch . |
| 11 | At least that will be the attitude of the minister who has scrabbled around ( perhaps even ringing up a colleague on the Saturday night ) in a desperate search for that elusive thing , the good children 's address . |
| 12 | Defeat meant the loss of colonial food imports and the allied bomb damage to 75 per cent of urban housing together with the famine saw many Japanese returning to rural areas in a desperate search for food . |
| 13 | Starving , the kits left the den in a desperate search for food . |
| 14 | CRITICALLY ill patients are being moved from one hospital to another in a desperate search for hospital beds , a medical expert revealed yesterday . |
| 15 | Even Schopenhauer could do no more than persist in a hopeless search for truth . |
| 16 | Scene one is the elderly gent wearily prowling round one bookshop after another in a hopeless search for a volume on fly-fishing by J R Hartley . |
| 17 | Schwantz , winner of 19 Grands Prix in a fruitless search for the world title , was joined on the front row by fellow American Wayne Rainey , bidding for a fourth successive crown , and Australian prospect Daryl Beattie . |
| 18 | As Suxavat is overrun by agents of a ministry intent on resuming imperial conquests in a renewed search for El Dorado , Urimecomes face to face the the ‘ repetitions of barbarism ’ . |
| 19 | The narrow strip of tarmac , not enclosed by fences , winds free in a continuous search for easy passage . |
| 20 | They engaged in a passionate search for a ‘ science of society ’ which would demonstrate that Russia need not follow the Western path . |
| 21 | Pravda is full of letters denouncing ‘ profiteers ’ , while writers in more analytical magazines like Kommunist are engaged in a troubled search for solutions . |
| 22 | Britain 's largest company is spending at least £2 million in a novel search for new Products and methods . |
| 23 | To have involved the whole North of England in a continuing search for knowledge , with hypothesis and verification conducted in the best Popperian manner , would be a signal development in community maturity . |
| 24 | These tribesmen were primarily shepherds who moved with their herds , which were bred for wool as well as meat , in a constant search for good grazing and water . |