Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 2 | Life is one long scratch for this poor individual . |
| 3 | As more companies attempt to take a bite at this particular cake , the market becomes increasingly fragmented and it is very difficult indeed to achieve strong enough support for any particular design though each has its own supporters . |
| 4 | Thus , in the case of the Roman hoards of the late third century , we should perhaps look for some other explanation . |
| 5 | But then those Bronze Age farmers , who 'd worked so long and hard to build the mound , leaving their work in the fields so to do for some unknown reason , avoided going near again . |
| 6 | ‘ Then I shall arrange it , ’ said Adam , who had no intention of producing quarterly accounts for this inquisitive journalist . |
| 7 | The Regulations require from September 1989 that each maintained school , special school and grant-maintained school must keep a curricular record annually updated for each registered pupil at the school . |
| 8 | The second is that IQ , as measured by conventional intelligence tests , does not seem a sufficient explanation of it ; even though it might be a necessary accompaniment — and indeed might help entirely to account for some other forms of high intellectual achievement . |
| 9 | Erm just to say that , just to confirm the note sent round that erm we will only pay for any photographic services by Intercity East Coast if it has been procured using a task request form in accordance with the same way we procure any other internal B R er service . |
| 10 | But it would be highly destabilising for any modern state . |
| 11 | The small talk might gently probe for some common experiences . |
| 12 | The independent sector provides some models and much experience for any new initiatives at grassroots level . |
| 13 | I 'm just looking for some old family … ’ |
| 14 | as if anyone any longer cared for such constitutional niceties . |
| 15 | Although best known for such delicious things as ‘ Sweet honeysucking bees ’ , his greatest work is to be found in serious madrigals like ‘ All pleasure is of this condition ’ and ‘ Thou art but young ’ . |
| 16 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 17 | Indeed , you 'd do the girl more kindness to put her in your dairy , for she 'll be utterly spoiled for any useful purpose . |
| 18 | Similarly , although the smallness of the samples of 16th , 17th , and 18th Century publications in need of repair means that conclusions about them must be treated with some caution , it is worth noting that if all pre-1800 items are treated as a group and the proportion of them allocated to each of Categories 3–5 calculated , their pattern of distribution ( ‘ Poor' 78% ; ‘ Bad ’ 18% ; ‘ Fragile ’ 7% ) comes close to matching that already established for all defective items . |
| 19 | He has brought his largest paintings to Monde de l'Art , along with some works specially painted for this particular gallery . |
| 20 | No ; they fidget , touch their hands to their mouths , make interrupt gestures and can hardly wait for that momentary pause which will give them a chance to get a word in edgeways . |
| 21 | She followed him numbly , still praying for that elusive miracle as they went into the staff rest-room and collected two cups of coffee and then out again , back down the corridor to the consultant 's room — his room . |
| 22 | A subsequent study of second cancers following anal and cervical cancer found further support for this aetiological link . |
| 23 | Though he could have stuck with any one of his developments and made a reputation , he is always looking for some new challenge on the lathe . |
| 24 | So they 're always looking for some intriguing way of saying metaphorically , ‘ Hey ! |
| 25 | They were always looking for some cowardly advantage . |
| 26 | In the wake of major advances in medicine and technology it 's interesting to hear that not only is acupuncture still used for many human conditions , but there is also an increasing trend toward using acupuncture for pets . |
| 27 | She did n't ever search for that sliding panel which opens the secret chamber of the heart , the chamber where memory and corpses are kept . |
| 28 | They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses . |
| 29 | Otherwise you might be desperate to get awa to do something , or get away on holiday , but you 're still waiting for that big win . |
| 30 | On my right there is a sudden and implausible terrace of little bow-fronted villas from the early thirties , still waiting for this left-over country lane to grow up and get itself surfaced and turned into a bypass . |