Example sentences of "look for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Each child has a number and looks for a packet with it on , which contains a small present . |
| 32 | First he looks for the one that he likes or that matches his needs , then he sees if it fits . |
| 33 | But the verdict it looks for is always the judgement of truth , the verdict handed down by reality . |
| 34 | She needs to find someone or something to blame for the catastrophe that has overtaken her , so she looks for reasons , because she may not yet be ready to face up to the extremely anxiety-provoking fact that life itself is unpredictable and the world is an insecure place . |
| 35 | A carved chair close by the altar , a small ancient-looking chest , and an ornately-carved table which looks for all the world like a chest on legs , may well be Jacobean . |
| 36 | For example , take Tokai 's notorious early '80s Fender copies : at long last , affordable , pro-quality guitars with classic looks for the impoverished working musician . |
| 37 | Q-TEE : ‘ Free The People ’ ( EMI ) smart rapper , who may or may not be cute , looks for revolution in the hands of a remix by PWL 's star remixers , Phil Harding and Ian Curnow — out now |
| 38 | Peter Scott assesses Perry Anderson 's verdict on English intellectuals ; Tony Parker on Thatcherism 's casualties ; Stephen Howe looks for new life in the unions ; Conor Gearty cross-examines a defender of the Bar ; and Geoff Dyer wades through Ted Hughes ' Shakespearean fantasy |
| 39 | Andy Lavender looks for signs of life in the Shaw corpus |
| 40 | Toni Morrison , whose new novel ‘ Jazz ’ is published next week , looks for clues among the classics of white American literature |
| 41 | The government 's aim has always been to attract foreign investment ; only its tactics have changed as the tiny city-state ( 639 sq km ) matures and looks for more sophisticated investors to help it achieve the longed-for ‘ developed nation ’ status by 2030 . |
| 42 | It does not rule out specific industries , but looks for companies in the £l0m to £100m area that are well-established operations with a strong market position ; big enough to support a sensible market structure ; small enough to offer a reasonable growth opportunity ; and where there are likely to be attractive opportunities for exit . |
| 43 | I have always said that there are thousands of qualified accountants sitting out there in small companies where they are finance directors , credit controllers , company secretaries , advisers to the board , the people to whom the board looks for everything . |
| 44 | In addressing them he utters no words of condemnation as he does in the case of the scribes and Pharisees , yet he nevertheless looks for an unconditional and wholehearted response from them . |
| 45 | My father looks for another . |
| 46 | John Daubney is no fool and has sought the solution because he , like many others , looks for reasons for unexpected noises occurring at 3 a. m. in the morning . |
| 47 | Ipswich man of the match Bryn Kerr is tackled and looks for support from flanker James Bisdee . |
| 48 | Jemima Puddle-Duck looks for a quiet spot . |
| 49 | On finding this mark-up within a document , Guide first looks for Aname in the context-table ( if any ) for the current document , and only if this fails is the library searched . |
| 50 | As the printing program traverses the semantic net and generates headings on paper , it first looks for a ‘ title ’ attribute . |
| 51 | The first order of meaning is available to participants but the second order of signification is a ‘ hidden ’ level of meaning in that it is not readily available to participants ( who might believe striptease to be erotic ) and needs to be generated by an analyst who knows that it is there and so looks for it . |
| 52 | The test looks for the presence of these antibodies . |
| 53 | The city of Balboa looks for all the world like a suburban Texas town — it has green lawns of tough-leaved grass , cyclone fences , large split-level houses , young housewives in sunglasses and hair-curlers driving Camaros on their way to the Safeway , American flags — and American troops . |
| 54 | The Furniture History Society looks for labels |
| 55 | It looks for formal arrangements such as size and frequency of union conventions or conferences , selection and voting methods for the union executives and the existence of intermediate union governing bodies , that is , the devices which can facilitate , when full advantage is taken of them , the development of power bases independent of union leaders . |
| 56 | The medical world looks for cures and , given a precise diagnosis , will set out a course of treatment which should lead to improvement in the patient 's condition . |
| 57 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 58 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 59 | CGI INFORMATIQUE LOOKS FOR FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ACQUISITION OR VENTURE |
| 60 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |