Example sentences of "look for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They are now living on DSS handouts in a two-bedroomed house in Brandon , Co Durham , while Father Butler looks for work .
2 Law 's in possession looks for Colin Moore in the middle , hand ball .
3 A person in this role looks for resources and ideas outside the team with the aim of supporting the team 's efforts .
4 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
5 Andy Lavender looks for signs of life in the Shaw corpus
6 This is different from the general defence of " due diligence " which looks for proof of mistaken belief .
7 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 .
8 Second , there is empirical work which looks for evidence that fiscal considerations play any part at all in the decision of individuals to reside in a particular locality .
9 The reason I joined the G M B and I 'm sure most of you was , in good times the G M B looks for improvements in pay and conditions , in bad times we look for holding on to what we have got .
10 Each alert head looks for problems but not for fault-finding .
11 But if one looks for Britain 's centre of gravity , it is found to be nearer the first in each pair of choices above .
12 Wright , unbeaten in nine paid bouts , faces former Central Area champion Kevin Spratt ( Bradford ) ; Maj looks for revenge over Mark Verikios ( Swansea ) ; Moffatt tackles Jimmy Vincent ( Birmingham ) and Churchill meets a selected opponent .
13 Sun Microsystems Inc has an OEM contract from Fanuc Ltd which it estimates at $10m a year : the Japanese robotics and factory automation company plans to create turnkey systems out of the workstations by bundling them with computer-aided design software from Cadkey Inc and sell them worldwide ; it looks for $330m in business over three years .
14 OBJECTIVITY LOOKS FOR PROFIT BY JUNE
15 The earlier she was killed , the better it looks for Willard because he was in college till gone five , right ? ’
16 Chatsworth , California-based personal computer manufacturer Packard Bell Inc has established a headquarters facility in the Netherlands to handle manufacturing , distribution and service for Packard Bell products throughout Europe : the new unit includes 250 employees ; last year , Packard Bell did about $100m in Europe , 10% of its 1992 worldwide sales of $925m , and looks for $200m or 16% this year .
17 Ipswich man of the match Bryn Kerr is tackled and looks for support from flanker James Bisdee .
18 In addition there were about 20 interesting and enlightening comments ranging from , " You can search on what you want with this if you just type in some buzz-words " to " It only looks for keywords — does n't analyse the search " The comments are given in full by Walker and Jones .
19 The algorithm scans the sequence of top symbols of parses , and looks for pairs M , P which crop up together unexpectedly often .
20 ERICSSON LOOKS FOR 30% TO 40% GROWTH IN UNIT SALES OF CELLULAR PHONES THIS YEAR
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Property : The Irish blessings worth counting Simon Courtauld looks for gold in the Emerald Isle
24 The social individual looks for self-fulfilment in social relationships .
25 More recently , social policy in this country has been informed by political economy — that tradition , primarily but not exclusively derived from Marxism , which identifies the ideological character of disciplinary boundaries and looks for explanations of the nature of social structure and social process in terms of the character of the dominant mode of production ( see Gough , 1979 ) .
26 It looks for recovery on the back on a new pocket computer out next week .
27 He looks for food .
28 Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present .
29 KnowledgeWare Inc , Atlanta warns that it expects to report non-recurring charges of $20m for its fiscal third quarter to March 31 from acquisitions and restructuring and expansion of product lines , and that this will lead to a loss for the quarter and for the year ; it also says that lower revenues combined with operating costs associated with the acquisitions are expected to contribute to a third quarter operating loss ; it looks for growth in European revenues .
30 The library user who looks for books of art criticism is not necessarily going to have an easy task .
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