Example sentences of "search for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout 1990 Laos continued to assist the USA in the search for US servicemen reported missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam war . |
| 2 | The US co-chair of the Russian-American Bilateral Commission on prisoners-of-war ( POWs ) , Malcolm Toon , said in Moscow on Sept. 21 that the US public was " getting awfully impatient " with the lack of progress in the search for US POWs allegedly missing in the former Soviet Union . |
| 3 | A recent critic complained about the ‘ clichés , the daft , ghosted ‘ star names ’ columns , the silly photos ( remember Ian Botham as ‘ Rambo ’ ? ) , the creation of heroes and villains , the concentration on the star or the result of the moment , the search for conflict , the trivialization of sporting women , the insularity ( beyond Dover , forget it ) , the emphasis on spectating rather than participating , the dearth of analysis , the marginal treatment of those who do n't quite ‘ make it ’ . |
| 4 | Has n't his search for Maastricht supporters resembled Indiana 's quest for the Grail ? |
| 5 | Moreover , it seems very likely that Anselm was referring to the search for relics conducted in secret by Osbern and Eadmer ; and it is also likely that Anselm had heard of the search from Eadmer himself . |
| 6 | the young adult oscillates wildly between the extremes of omnipotence and impotence in a search for competence . |
| 7 | Abandon the obsessive search for grassroots , and value music for its distance from them , its floating free and outlandishness . |
| 8 | What had started with Jones as a search for muon catalysed fusion , then theory on piezonuclear fusion in his paper with van Sieclen and with Palmer as a puzzle about the gases emitting from volcanoes , was now turning into a search for entirely new routes to fusion . |
| 9 | On her way to the Rådhuspladsen she 'd passed its entrance several times , knowing that it must have a high priority in her search for Suzie . |
| 10 | Particularly where the subject is a plural personal pronoun no variation seems to be permitted ; but in our initial search for invariance ( cf. 1.1 ) , we still can not specify this rule as categorical with the same confidence as we can define a constraint on a phonological variable . |
| 11 | Certainly there were those , both in the divisions and outside , who felt that the BEA headquarters design policy , in its search for reliability and speed of construction above all else , had imposed an unnecessary conservatism on development . |
| 12 | In the search for reliability and good service , you could rely on crossed fingers or personal recommendation . |
| 13 | In March 1988 North West Exploration found encouraging prospects in its search for gold in Co . |
| 14 | In his search for gold he found many new islands including Cuba and Hispaniola . |
| 15 | It 's the search for gold that opens up virgin land with roads and airstrips , and then other settlers follow . |
| 16 | Ship in search for gas fields |
| 17 | A MAJOR search for gas is to be mounted off the East Coast later this year by a consortium headed by Kelt UK . |
| 18 | Among them are sketches of objects and copies of inscriptions made by Howard Carter of items from Lord Carnarvon 's collection ; facsimiles of reliefs ; drawings of animals and birds copied from hieroglyphics and set alongside living counterparts ; Carter 's map of the Valley of the Kings used in the search for Tutankhamun 's tomb ; and record cards and sketches of the objects from the tomb itself . |
| 19 | He speaks of a kind of intellectual pessimism , a ‘ despair of knowing anything ’ , into which it is possible to fall after repeated failures in the search for knowledge . |
| 20 | In what ways have the false doctrine of abstraction , and the equally mistaken materialism to which it lends support , been a ‘ great source of errors and difficulties ’ in our search for knowledge ? |
| 21 | In the search for knowledge what matters is the truth that is knowledge . |
| 22 | And anyway , my search for knowledge about human behavior — surely it ca n't be dangerous ? |
| 23 | It was the only thing on the horizon , shouldering aside achievement and sensation with attention-seeking roughness , and nothing , not conversation , wine , sexual encounters or the search for knowledge or fame could prevent it . |
| 24 | To have involved the whole North of England in a continuing search for knowledge , with hypothesis and verification conducted in the best Popperian manner , would be a signal development in community maturity . |
| 25 | The search for knowledge was also of practical benefit to humankind . |
| 26 | Realising that Macleod had perceived him clearly , Boswell introduces a short apologia pro vita sua , ‘ a short defence of that propensity in my disposition ’ , in which he justifies his pursuit of the great and famous as ‘ nothing more than an eagerness to share the society of men distinguished either by their rank or talents ’ , and calls it a search for knowledge . |
| 27 | Once myth was destroyed , the metaphysical drive survived at best in attenuated form in the Socratic search for knowledge ; and at worst in a religious syncretism that led only to complete triviality or exotic superstition . |
| 28 | ‘ I have made a study of the Fall , how men challenged the Gods in their search for knowledge and were banished from Eden . |
| 29 | DEC STOPS SEARCH FOR ALPHA SEMI PARTNERS , IBM IN OEM PUSH FOR POWERPC ? |
| 30 | He suggests that the search for cost-effectiveness was particularly prevalent in the 1980s , with the establishment of the Audit Commission and the development of performance indicators in the NHS . |