Example sentences of "cast around for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone unfortunately has children so you may have to cast around for other members of the family . |
| 2 | These factors , coupled with the abolition of scale charges for conveyancing , caused the lawyers to cast around for alternative sources of income . |
| 3 | It is an ASTONISHING piece of equipment — and I long to know how to use other design and text layout programmes which can be purchased and loaded into it , but want to cast around for sound advice as the programmes cost significant sums each . |
| 4 | Unable to mobilize peasant support , the revolutionaries cast around for alternative strategies . |
| 5 | We can adapt our theories , or cast around for fresh ones , to suit our intuitions . |
| 6 | Meryl could sense the woman 's agitation and anger , and cast around for some diversion . |
| 7 | Seems Novell Inc missed a first call of the open systems boat back in its dim and distant proprietary past , when Reading , Berkshire-based X/Open Co Ltd was casting around for inter face technology that could tie personal computer networks into open systems . |
| 8 | For a moment it was as if he was casting around for suitable names , and then suddenly he was looking past Alexei towards Jehan . |
| 9 | However , long before these disastrous developments , Vermuyden was wiping the mud of Hatfield off his boots and casting around for greener pastures . |