Example sentences of "look for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person in this role looks for resources and ideas outside the team with the aim of supporting the team 's efforts . |
| 2 | Andy Lavender looks for signs of life in the Shaw corpus |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Each alert head looks for problems but not for fault-finding . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The algorithm scans the sequence of top symbols of parses , and looks for pairs M , P which crop up together unexpectedly often . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The library user who looks for books of art criticism is not necessarily going to have an easy task . |
| 12 | And the only way these can make a difference is if he shares them , tests them out , listens to other ideas and looks for ways to put them into practice . |
| 13 | I ca n't help putting myself in his place , of course , as he looks for ways to contain someone we both regard as an outsider . |
| 14 | ‘ Now everyone looks for ways to solve problems . |
| 15 | The Furniture History Society looks for labels |
| 16 | Toni Morrison , whose new novel ‘ Jazz ’ is published next week , looks for clues among the classics of white American literature |
| 17 | Cos an archaeologist is somebody who looks for clues . |
| 18 | As the government looks for cuts , it will find plenty of scope to make improvements at the same time . |
| 19 | CGI INFORMATIQUE LOOKS FOR FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ACQUISITION OR VENTURE |
| 20 | It is not only qualifications that matter within Whitbread , the company also looks for individuals with a determination to succeed , are bright and have appropriate team skills . |
| 21 | Out And About : Always blossom on the bough Winifred Carr looks for trees and shrubs providing continuous colour |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The feminist looks for examples of disinterested behaviour in the animal kingdom , sees the male here and there performing tasks which in human society might be characterized as ‘ female ’ . |
| 24 | It is at this point that society looks for scapegoats and searches for panaceas . |
| 25 | Shaper : pushes the team towards action , sets objectives and looks for outcomes ; dominant , extrovert and anxious . |
| 26 | Having looked for elements of structure , the next stage is to look for elements of process , that is , what is going on' . |
| 27 | Cassie could have looked for hours but a slight sound from the garden jolted her back to an awareness of her present danger . |
| 28 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 29 | Admittedly we can discern glimmerings of intelligent thought involving the location of sub-goals and the execution of sub-strategies , a grasp of ‘ causality ’ , perhaps even a grasp of the internal motivational states of others , as disclosed by their behaviour ; and some experimenters have even looked for signs of a sense of self , and even of intimation of mortality . |
| 30 | This time the researchers have looked for steps in the decay chain of a B meson , in which the b quark converts first into a c quark and then into an s quark ; this means that the B meson decays into a charmed D meson , and then a strange K meson . |