Example sentences of "[adj] look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | THREE GUYS 17-18 YEARS OLD looking for three girls in the Eastbourne area who are into heavy metal and skateboarding- Photos please- Check this out ! ! |
| 2 | He was involved in the most important questions of policy — negotiations for the marriage of royal children : Eleanor in 1170 and John in 1173 But in view of Eleanor of Aquitaine 's masterful political activity in later years it seems superfluous to look for a power behind the throne . |
| 3 | Since changes in blood group antigen expression in the colon are associated with dysplasia and may be useful in screening for the development of colorectal carcinoma , we were particularly interested to look for a similar association between inappropriate expression of blood group antigens in the biliary tree and biliary dysplasia and cholangiocarcinoma . |
| 4 | It would be wrong to look for villains in this . |
| 5 | We were wrong to look for redress from others when we should be taking the wrong done to our master upon ourselves . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's enough work around if you 're willing to look for it , ’ he added . |
| 7 | Once the Soviet Union allowed pluralism in Eastern Europe , America was prepared to look for areas where Soviet help could come in handy . |
| 8 | That said , the drinks sector seemed relieved that the Chancellor has paid some attention to the risk of driving business across the Channel to the Calais supermarkets , the building sector was prepared to look for possible beneficiaries from the approval the Chancellor has given to rail links in South-east England , oil benefited from the abolition of PRT on new North Sea fields , the motor trade seemed to take the threat of fuel taxes in excess of inflation in its stride , and WH Smith reflected a sense of relief that VAT has not been extended to books and newspapers . |
| 9 | If anyone is disposed to look for a golden lining in the effects of Typhoon Thelma — which , in November , killed about 7,000 people on the islands of Leyte and Negros in the central Philippines — it might be the resulting national outrage against illegal logging . |
| 10 | But it is foolish to look for great intellectual nourishment from a parasite , just as it would be to expect the delicacies of romantic love in the company of a hired prostitute . |
| 11 | Some looked for new political initiatives , particularly from the left : a survey of the ‘ condition of Britain' led Cole and Cole ( 1937 ) to advocate a Popular Front , with a programme embracing both an international policy of democratic defence and economic collaboration . |
| 12 | Got squashed in the photo files by Brendon Fitzgerald , broke the photocopier , got lost looking for the canteen , uncovered the truth about IPC tea , became Dele Fadele 's personal typewriter ribbon engineer ( have been ever since ) , discovered House music had not yet reached Waterloo , realised that guitars really are the work of the devil , mended the then extremely sad NME stereo ( ie , plugged it in ) and was quickly appointed technical supervisor to anything mechanical ( plugs , electrical toothbrushes ) , invented dance music , formed Subbuteo league with James Brown and Simon Dudfield which eventually became fixed beyond all belief , tried to blag a Misty In Roots CD and failed . |
| 13 | But it was pointless to look for tell-tale tyre marks in this . |
| 14 | When dealing with the paranormal or supernatural , it is easy to look for rational explanations , but logical reasoning can not always explain the strange events that occur in people 's lives . |
| 15 | With Lewis this was not so , and it is probably vain to look for reasons . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's that look for ? ’ he asked . |
| 17 | Its focus is not so much on the individuals who work and produce as on the production process , and this rather impersonal and abstract approach makes it difficult or even unnecessary to look for any exclusion of women , although this occurs . |
| 18 | So it is possible to look for ways of ordering our responses to technology and resource allocation in a morally responsible way ; and , being possible , it is our duty to do so . |
| 19 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 20 | Theoretically , most referees are supposed to look for full points in the first instance and half-points afterwards . |
| 21 | It is natural to look for causative factors , and we have treated causality much as it is treated in experimental research generally ( see Plutchik , 1974 : 174–87 ) . |
| 22 | Having obtained one renormalizable theory for the strong interactions and another one for the weak and electromagnetic interactions , it was natural to look for a theory that combined the two . |
| 23 | But it may be unfair to look for remedies at classroom level from such global data . |
| 24 | ‘ in this notoriously difficult area it is customary to look for analogies . |
| 25 | A separate analysis that Marie-Louise Newell and I have done on the employment histories of women born in 1946 looked for evidence of occupational downgrading associated with childbearing ( Newell and Joshi , 1986 ; Joshi and Newell , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 27 | It 's no good looking for a man 's body round here if the owner 's living it up in Costa Rica . |
| 28 | Outgoing , crazy , cuddly woman of 18 looking for friendship and passion . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've got that fifty-pound note we 're all looking for . ’ |
| 30 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |