Example sentences of "[verb] around for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Snuffling around for untapped niche markets , Unipalm Ltd , based in Cambridge , has come up with Mail-it , a Microsoft Windows-to-Unix connectivity E-mail package . |
| 32 | Not everyone unfortunately has children so you may have to cast around for other members of the family . |
| 33 | These factors , coupled with the abolition of scale charges for conveyancing , caused the lawyers to cast around for alternative sources of income . |
| 34 | It is an ASTONISHING piece of equipment — and I long to know how to use other design and text layout programmes which can be purchased and loaded into it , but want to cast around for sound advice as the programmes cost significant sums each . |
| 35 | No but I 'm saying I 'm not gon na be able to run around for eighty minutes being . |
| 36 | Some people think that having reasons for faith is an insult to God , as if we were desperately grubbing around for make-shift reasons to believe in him . |
| 37 | Last years kit had a funny , heavy sort of feel to it … and was nt very comfortable to wear … especially running around for 90 mins . |
| 38 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |
| 39 | On short finals full flap is lowered , the speed is brought back to 75 kts and the propeller levers are moved into fully fine in case there is a need to go around for any reason . |
| 40 | After we got over the shock we asked around for other quotes and came up with an initial estimate of £1,000 plus parts , subject to what is found when the engine is taken out , from John Cutler Marine Engineers who were recommended by Sigma Yachts . |
| 41 | Japan looked around for diplomatic support , but this was not forthcoming from either Britain or the United States . |
| 42 | He looked around for some measure of comparison . |
| 43 | So , being a nosey bugger , which I am , I went into David 's room and looked around for some evidence of what actually might have happened that weekend because I was completely stunned . |
| 44 | He sucked in lungfuls of the cool fresh air and looked around for human habitation . |
| 45 | You could n't afford to have drivers sitting around for ten minutes not doing anything , so you married these routes up together and were able to , by manipulation , get them to a more economical run . |
| 46 | Unable to mobilize peasant support , the revolutionaries cast around for alternative strategies . |
| 47 | We can adapt our theories , or cast around for fresh ones , to suit our intuitions . |
| 48 | Meryl could sense the woman 's agitation and anger , and cast around for some diversion . |
| 49 | They wander around for forty years in the wilderness ! |
| 50 | few would deny that the CMHTs almost immediately ran into problems due to the squeeze on local authority budgets and found themselves scrabbling around for alternative resources ; |
| 51 | In desperation , it searched around for additional incentives . |
| 52 | She searched around for further words to express her grief , but could find none , and kept repeating herself . |
| 53 | Seems Novell Inc missed a first call of the open systems boat back in its dim and distant proprietary past , when Reading , Berkshire-based X/Open Co Ltd was casting around for inter face technology that could tie personal computer networks into open systems . |
| 54 | For a moment it was as if he was casting around for suitable names , and then suddenly he was looking past Alexei towards Jehan . |
| 55 | However , long before these disastrous developments , Vermuyden was wiping the mud of Hatfield off his boots and casting around for greener pastures . |
| 56 | He looked , little doubt of it , considerably relieved , but clearly there was something on his mind , for he stood hesitantly beside the table , his eyes scouting around for some object upon which to focus . |
| 57 | But , again judging from the US experience , this awareness will not make people much more conscious of the actual money cost of different forms of credit than they are already , nor encourage shopping around for cheaper credit . |
| 58 | Probably recommendable chiefly to Britflick completists and producers shopping around for cheap talent . |
| 59 | The research concluded that , in some respects , patients could and did behave like consumers in a marketplace , shopping around for good quality care . |
| 60 | While there is no evidence that either attempted to widen its options to the extent of shopping around for nuclear alternatives , both certainly took steps in the direction of nuclear-reactor installation , whether for research or power generation . |