Example sentences of "search for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until about eighteen months or so they will typically be unable to search for objects which have been displaced invisibly ( by transposing containers , for example ) . |
| 2 | Such theories also opened up other fields in which to search for inspiration . |
| 3 | The area was sealed off , sniffer dogs were called in to search for more explosives and the bags taken to the Metropolitan Police forensic science laboratory for examination . |
| 4 | DAVE SEXTON , the England Under-21 manager , is prepared to search for friendly fixtures if his side fall out of the European Championships at the qualifying stage for the first time in 12 years . |
| 5 | Mr Escobar , in a letter to La Prensa , called for ‘ direct dialogue to search for peace ’ , with participation by government , opposition , judicial , church and journalism representatives . |
| 6 | Thereafter , the growing concern over inflation , steep rises in household rates , growth of public spending , and the activities of left-wing Labour authorities led the Conservatives to search for economy . |
| 7 | ‘ Is that an order ? ’ she teased him , but indicated her consent by beginning to search for her shoes . |
| 8 | Has a whole army to be sent out to search for you whenever you 're needed ? |
| 9 | They travel in large concentrated groups to search for food , particularly when herding shoaling pelagic ( open sea ) fish . |
| 10 | I gave warning in 1987 that it is part of Gorbachev 's character to search for absolute personal power . |
| 11 | He has visited Vietnam several times to search for missing American soldiers , a venture that plays well in his district which is home to a lot of ex-servicemen . |
| 12 | Mr Jencks concludes that to search for a comprehensive policy to tackle the underclass is a waste of time ; different policies are needed for different problems that may be only loosely related . |
| 13 | But I had to search for Vietnam . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , provided that it is possible to make informed assumptions about the likely shapes and sizes of buildings at particular periods , a computer can be programmed to search for particular configurations of post-holes that might result from such a structure and ‘ peel them off ’ , to reveal a simplified picture of earlier building phases . |
| 15 | Peter Hough ran through his investigation into a photograph of what appears to be an alien clutching an intergalactic attaché case on Ilkley Moor in a slide show which was like a conceptual exercise in boredom ( ‘ Here 's a slide of the letter I sent asking to hire a Geiger counter to search for radioactive traces left on the moor by the alien … |
| 16 | Mary Ann insisted on hearing every detail of the auction over tea , and afterwards , to oblige her , Mungo and Emily went to search for new-laid eggs on the batters . |
| 17 | With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned . |
| 18 | The growing barbarization of the war , especially following the invasion of the Soviet Union , led to an increasing dehumanization of the abstract image of the ‘ Jew ’ and a corresponding ‘ internalization ’ of the justification of the need to search for a radical solution to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 19 | Her publicists would have to search for other stars to publicise . |
| 20 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
| 21 | Why this constant need to change , to try something new , to search for paradise ? |
| 22 | So deeply ingrained is our instinct to search for a pattern that we refuse to accept any input as genuinely random . |
| 23 | The king therefore sent Nicholas de Bolevill with ten armed men to search for the malefactors , and to inquire who harboured them . |
| 24 | Under Biset 's orders they were to search for the evildoers and those who harboured them , and do whatever was necessary to maintain the king 's peace in those parts . |
| 25 | He therefore gave authority to one Edward Sawyer to make inquiries , and to search for evidence in all houses and places in Kettering and five miles around . |
| 26 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 27 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 28 | I ca n't imagine he has ever had to search for his mother , or had narcolepsy , or become a hustler , yet he does all three so brilliantly in the film it breaks your heart . |
| 29 | Briefly , for those who want to search for one of these rarities : beautiful , very fast , start saving at £14,000 and go for the carburetted rather than the injected version . |
| 30 | Telephone enquiries are also accepted and fully trained staff will be pleased to search for information that is difficult to locate . |