Example sentences of "the search for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is more than a hint of the search for the philosopher 's stone . |
| 2 | Part of the reasoning behind the move was the search for an effective policy to contain the violence within Ireland and prevent it from spreading to Britain . |
| 3 | In the search for alternative sources of good , reasonably priced wine , have a look at Sicily . |
| 4 | As peoples shift from one part of the globe to another , from one self to another , in various states of exile , dispossession and displacement , the dominant feature of the late-twentieth century has to be the search for place . |
| 5 | Moreover , as always in Dostoevsky , the search for suffering refuses to settle into coherent masochistic focus . |
| 6 | However , ‘ I invite nobody into my soul ’ he declares , as if to banish the exhibitionist thought.44 And then if the search for suffering is allowed to eclipse the rest , we are back with Marmeladov squinnying into the bottom of his vodka jug ; whereas Stavrogin saying he wants to forgive himself might be Raskolnikov pondering retrospectively , selfcritically , on his admission of guilt at the police station . |
| 7 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 8 | The essential point was that the medieval Church was a ‘ sex-negative ’ institution — sex was a bad thing because it interfered with the search for spiritual perfection . |
| 9 | ‘ There is no doubt that in private ownership , services will take second place to the search for profit , and there will be horrendous operating problems , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The inner cabinet meeting had been billed as being vital for the search for a settlement in the region and the future of the national-unity government . |
| 11 | His discovery of a new freedom both theological and psychological was not easy for him to articulate though his widely circulated letter Ad Amicos revealed his absolute devotion to the search for God . |
| 12 | In August the Soviet ambassador in Stockholm , Boris Pankin , wrote that Moscow wanted to ‘ turn the case of the search for Raoul Wallenberg into a mark of honour for his memory , ’ but again claimed that the Swede had died under Stalin . |
| 13 | This is to ignore the question , from the Christian standpoint , of the relationship of the divine and human natures in Jesus and the character of the involvement of the other two persons of the trinity in the Incarnation — difficult problems , no doubt , but not to be set aside in the search for truth and understanding . |
| 14 | the search for other uses of under-employed resources at home . |
| 15 | These changes stimulated the search for some substitute for the individual proof of need or ‘ means test ’ . |
| 16 | ln religious ceremony , ‘ the same manifestations are to be observed in each case : cries , songs , music , violent movements , dances , the search for exciteants which raise the vital level ’ . |
| 17 | For Eliot , the search for liturgy and ritual has continued . |
| 18 | These lead now not to mere eternal recurrence , but , redeemed , to spiritual content and the possibility of a peace beyond time in the search for the word which is both the word of God 's grace , healing , and the ‘ cry ’ of the poet aspiring . |
| 19 | The search for the nature of the distinctively gay sensibility can be productively redirected as an exploration of the limitations of the aesthetic as conventionally understood , especially the way it is said to transcend the socio-political , and used in support of the proposition that discrimination is the essence of culture . |
| 20 | For homosexuals more than most , the search for sexual freedom in the realm of the foreign has been inseparable from a repudiation of the ‘ Western , culture responsible for their repression and oppression . |
| 21 | The search for efficiency and cost-cutting has resulted in greater centralization . |
| 22 | The search for dollars led to grandiose plans for African economic development , most famously the groundnuts scheme , though that was not the only madcap project to surface in this period . |
| 23 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 24 | Marx was pointing out that the capitalist assumption that what motivates man everywhere and for all time is the search for profit , is totally misleading and is itself a product of capitalism . |
| 25 | The ride across the lake gives us our best sledging for days , but the search for the ruin is hopeless , an endless toing and froing among trees and too-deep snow . |
| 26 | His preoccupations are unusual ( if not unique , as he claims ) but they are unquestionably engendered by the search for a cultural identity which lies behind so much of Latin America 's greatest artistic and literary creations . |
| 27 | Viewed from the late twentieth century and the widespread acceptance of the ‘ two cultures ’ , the search for affinities between art and science possesses particular significance for the historian . |
| 28 | The search for soccer stories occupied a new breed of journalist — men like Alan Hoby , the self-styled ‘ Man Who Knows ’ , or the ‘ Man Who Knows F — All ’ as he was known to some of his readers . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | The national dimension to sports reporting and the search for heroes could be a source of anxiety and even distress to the more reticent sportsman . |