Example sentences of "search for some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directorate searched for some method , other than a quick fix-it , which would draw the business into acceptable profitability and then develop that position . |
| 2 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 3 | One way to avoid this is to think for a moment before beginning , searching for some idea , however brief , on which our imagination can work . |
| 4 | It was this disappearance that really roused my suspicion , and started me searching for some kind of pattern to make sense of these changes . |
| 5 | She faltered , desperately searching for some excuse . |
| 6 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 7 | A learner is usually searching for some property which fulfils criteria which have nothing to do directly with the observed data . |
| 8 | Tormented , Eliot was searching for some sort of salvation . |
| 9 | Signs are constantly available to help motivated users who are actively searching for some form of information . |
| 10 | By the same token , most record-of-achievement schemes now are actively searching for some form of external accreditation through the validation of school procedures and pupils ' overall programmes . |
| 11 | They will not move out of the tradition in manner or moral , but will only marry higher education and will search for some way to use it . |
| 12 | Rather , an enlightened dualist will search for some significance , which we may call STYLISTIC VALUE , in a writer 's choice to express his sense in this rather than that way . |
| 13 | First , we could search for some analogue of the potential function which proved so useful in electrostatics . |