Example sentences of "were looking for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were looking for 4 men . |
| 2 | About the same time TWW were looking for two journalists Ron Evans , a former journalist with the Empire News and the Sunday Times , had already joined the television company and he came over to Thomson House to check me out . |
| 3 | FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects . |
| 4 | This fundamentally optimistic interpretation of the world and its mysterious working was contested by the heirs of the Enlightenment of the previous century , who were looking for rational explanations and practical methods of applying them . |
| 5 | In the analysis of linguistic variation , therefore , we were looking for fine details of variation-variation that shows internal patterning within the speech community , but which may have no social meaning for outsiders — and in the first application for funding it was specified that the research was intended to extend the quantitative methodology to a type of community that had not been studied in this way before . |
| 6 | When the authentic medical researchers started to get involved , they were looking for dietary answers to serious illnesses prevalent in Western societies but extremely rare in many less sophisticated communities in the developing world . |
| 7 | The strongest signal of Moscow 's fury with the intransigent Romanian regime came when Pravda , the Communist Party daily newspaper , reported favourably on the demonstrators in Timisoara , saying that they were looking for rapid reforms in the country . |
| 8 | ‘ We were looking for 12 matches or even 16 , ’ David Brook , the club president , said . |