Example sentences of "[prep] look for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have identified them after looking for relatedness along the entire value chain , including both inputs and outputs , that make up the offering . |
| 2 | It was a Sunday , and the coach took us south of the border to the dusty town of Tia Juana where the passengers wandered about looking for souvenirs and tequila . |
| 3 | So much for looking for excitement . |
| 4 | I recognize that it represents a major change in policy to even consider the idea of recruiting the unemployed , but I understand the C E C for looking for referral and we will be happy with that this year . |
| 5 | Fundamental considerations , such as looking for stocks which will beneift from sterling 's weakness , are out of the window , ’ said one bemused dealer . |
| 6 | Possibly they had all gone off looking for help but I found the child and I cradled the child round my neck with some sort of rag and headed off back to Basra . |
| 7 | He 's only off looking for Rebel . |
| 8 | If the warm weather runs into the autumn , it 's worth looking for autumn gentian or felwort gentianella amarella on the chalk hills of southern England . |
| 9 | But it 's worth looking for books and magazine articles that are on relevant topics — and these will certainly help in getting to understand the terminology . |
| 10 | As he sipped his wine in the bright , busy square , he thought that although the language was certainly a problem and one that he would have to continue to struggle with , it only provided him with an excuse , really , an excuse for why he had not been able to get down to the job of looking for Elsie . |
| 11 | In March 1990 , US forces swept into the neighbourhood of Curundu in Panama City under the pretext of looking for drug dealers . |
| 12 | The advice suggested : ‘ we must try , by adopting a uniformly more robust and aggressive approach , to recover some lost ground ’ and accused the Divisional Court ‘ almost invariably ’ of looking for errors or ambiguities so as to upset the determinations of adjudicators . |
| 13 | The importance of looking for reasons to explain aggression or demanding behaviour is well illustrated in this case . |
| 14 | At grade C the next requirement is that the candidate should be able ‘ to show an ability to look at events and issues from the perspective of other people in the past ; to understand the importance of looking for motives ’ . |
| 15 | Pepper explained in an interview , ‘ When I came to the hotel I was sort of looking for work . |
| 16 | This alternative approach , instead of looking for polarities and constructing rigid distinctions in intellectual development with which to correlate similarly reified literacy practices , recognises these literacy practices as themselves social products , no more isolable from the political and ideological context than are the ‘ scientific ’ achievements that Goody would associate with them . |
| 17 | In his book , The Stress Myth , he contradicts the usual assumption that unwanted stress is an inevitable part of life and teaches that instead of looking for ways of dealing with it after it has occurred , we ourselves should take action to prevent it happening at all . |
| 18 | I 'm thinking of looking for suggestions to improve practice and set standards in areas like communication , delegation , supervision , team-building , time management , financial planning , project management and so on . |
| 19 | Looking for tourist highlights in Montepulciano is , to change a crumbling analogy , rather like looking for elephants in the African bush . |
| 20 | I used to like them along there , it was nice cos you could go could combine a a walk by the sea with looking for bargains . |
| 21 | Although Peter returned to help you finish that tour , the early '70s must have been fraught with looking for replacements , before you crystallised the line-up with Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks … |
| 22 | Consequently , Reagan , in looking for support from conservative Republicans , ran up against the reality that many of those same people felt bound by obligations to Nixon , who duly won the nomination on the first ballot at the Convention . |
| 23 | In Looking for relevance : can we let them decide ? |
| 24 | There 's no point in looking for problems when problems do n't exist . |
| 25 | Through a combination of capital projects and employee involvement in looking for improvements , the waste [ as defined under SARA title 111 ] produced by the site is now 40 per cent down on 1988 . |
| 26 | In looking for significance some critics took a sociological line but perhaps psychology was a better guide . |
| 27 | ‘ In looking for Heather , you mean ? |
| 28 | Above : standing by Michael Jayston in Stand by Your Man ; below left ; showing Patience in Mrs Worthington 's Daughter ; below right : Michael Gambon with his greatest fan in Looking for Señor Duende . |
| 29 | Students can then get very involved in looking for clues to support their own hypotheses . |
| 30 | In looking for background themes the following have been found to correlate positively with strong motivation-arousal goals for forming lasting relationships with friends and an organization : |