Example sentences of "[conj] look for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olwen drove , and evolved a schedule of visiting her numerous girlfriends or looking for bargains in the shops whilst the others pitched the local council or union . |
| 2 | In terms of availability on the labour market , then , 93 per cent of conversion students were in work , waiting to start work , or looking for work . |
| 3 | Whether you are starting a pond from scratch , or looking for fish to supplement existing stock , buying Koi is one of the most challenging and exciting moments of the hobby . |
| 4 | The supply of exotic animals for dissection was of great importance to anatomists hoping to make their name through exciting discoveries or looking for ammunition to use in theoretical debates . |
| 5 | The latter are not exclusively practical in the sense of always utilizing apparatus , but instead might include tasks such as reading tabular data or looking for number patterns . |
| 6 | I took messages to the Lord Buckingham , pretending I was delivering suits or looking for trade at his London house . ’ |
| 7 | Genetic monitoring regularly assesses workers for cytogenetic damage — major changes to chromosomes — or may apply other , less perfected , tests that locate mutagens in body fluids or look for damage to individual genes . |
| 8 | Send him out to watch your next opponents , or look for defenders , midfielders etc . |
| 9 | So they kill or look for carcasses already available and search them for beetles , spiders , maggots and the like , turning the bodies over from time to time to aid their search . |
| 10 | Ask an insurance broker for details , or look for advertisements in the canine press . |
| 11 | In such circumstances , the Americans , out of concern for their homeland , might falter in their commitment to Nato or look for ways to confine any war to Europe . |
| 12 | A majority of Gujerati women , particularly those from East Africa , do work or look for work outside the home . |
| 13 | They have all gone off to work or to look for work , leaving behind the old , the disabled , the women and the children . |
| 14 | So this slightly different than looking for angles is n't it . |
| 15 | Rather than looking for deviations from pattern , perhaps one should be looking at the patterns produced by the modes of rationality which agents typically find it conventional to construct . |
| 16 | He designed that look for Susan Foreman , and indeed arranged to open his shop specially for me one evening so I could be ready for the production day next morning . |
| 17 | Will the Minister make the point that , rather than look for treatment to be provided elsewhere in Europe , the Government should provide hospitals in this country ? |
| 18 | If we really wanted to find out whether the unwesternised Wolof were capable of expressing different points of view , we could do worse than to look for instance at their political activities and see whether , in factional disputes , the lobbying that takes place indicates such an awareness . |
| 19 | Ipswich man of the match Bryn Kerr is tackled and looks for support from flanker James Bisdee . |
| 20 | The algorithm scans the sequence of top symbols of parses , and looks for pairs M , P which crop up together unexpectedly often . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Shaper : pushes the team towards action , sets objectives and looks for outcomes ; dominant , extrovert and anxious . |
| 25 | Some of the gentry in South Wales also had Jacobite leanings , and looked for leadership to Lewis Pryse of Aberystwyth and the Duke of Beaufort . |
| 26 | He glanced back as if looking for signs of pursuit . |
| 27 | We must keep trying and looking for successes , however small . |
| 28 | A useful way of developing creative thinking and one which can be of great benefit when you are studying and looking for inspiration is the technique of key words or key terms . |
| 29 | They set up random checkpoints on roads between Ballymena and Portstewart stopping vehicles and looking for drugs . |
| 30 | A poet might be attached to a household , or , increasingly , be dependent on travelling between households , performing his work and looking for hospitality and support . |