Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [be] looking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration . |
| 2 | Maybe this is what England have been looking for , a team that looks symmetrical on the scorecard , at least . |
| 3 | A COUPLE who know the heartache of losing a child have been looking after Brian McDermott 's grave . |
| 4 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 5 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 6 | Sometimes this way of working is just what health workers have been looking for , but it has to be acknowledged that such an approach does not fit easily with the conventional mode of western medicine and what we have described as the medical model . |
| 7 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |
| 8 | In the longer term , IBM is even thinking about making PC-DOS 6 processor-independent so that any forthcoming lines of handhelds are n't limited to Intel Corp chips , Ms Dimfel says the same people producing the Taligent/Workplace OS micro-kernel are looking at a ‘ pico-kernel ’ optimised to run just PC-DOS . |
| 9 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 10 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 11 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 12 | But Ferguson countered : ‘ A lot of people have been looking at Eric 's move with a very negative attitude . |
| 13 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ Up to now , many of these people have been looking after themselves . |
| 15 | Although the virus has now disappeared , RSPCA staff have been looking after orphaned pups , seals damaged by fishing nets and victims of gales , as well as treating a variety of birds . |
| 16 | Social scientists have been looking at extra-marital sexual patterns to understand why it is some men and women have affairs and others do n't . |
| 17 | Alistair and Wayne show they have appreciated that the addition of one tower to the other will create a new tower that is taller than either of its component towers , whereas Matthew and Claire have been looking at the inverse operation — one brick less and the tower is lower . |
| 18 | ‘ He did n't realise that people all over the world have been looking for him . ’ |
| 19 | how they gon na , how are they gon na go on with this sale of land that the council have sold some land to the council and the police have been looking into it |
| 20 | he 's been able to get round it really , it might well be above board , but the police have been looking into it |
| 21 | Police have been looking for the killer of seventy year old Jim Eggleton since his battered body was found five weeks ago . |
| 22 | All the dealers who habitually haunt Sothebys salerooms have been looking at the furniture and glassware and silver . |
| 23 | Everton have been looking for a target man to bring out the best in Mo Johnston and Peter Beardsley . |
| 24 | While some publishers have attempted to counter the decline in print runs for first time publications by pushing titles into paperback others have been looking for ways to revitalise their hardback sales . |
| 25 | Antique dealers and bargain hunters have been looking through the belongings of the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 26 | This tiny car — it 's a foot shorter than a Mini — might be the breath of fresh air Europe 's choked and choking cities have been looking for . |
| 27 | The tank provides what is known as a ‘ restricted environment ’ and researchers have been looking at the benefits of Restricted Environment Stimulation therapy ( known as REST ) for almost 30 years . |
| 28 | Is this the relief that MS sufferers have been looking for ? |