Example sentences of "their search for " in BNC.
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| 1 | What criteria would police and immigration officials use in their search for ‘ potential terrorists ’ on a train that they could not use at a static checkpoint or airport ? |
| 2 | The airlines themselves will next week step up their recruitment drive for pilots in North America and western Europe , where they have also chartered aircraft , by extending their search for flight crews to South Africa and central Europe . |
| 3 | Even so their search for quality evidently needs some sharpening . |
| 4 | When Conan Doyle put these words into the mouth of Sherlock Holmes , he could have had no idea of the tools which would one day become available to the great detective 's fellow scientists in their search for truth . |
| 5 | Yet cave explorers , always indefatigable in their search for holes in the ground , have discovered several apertures in the beds of the streams coming down from Barbon High Fell , many of them admitting to underground passages and caves attained only by arduous effort . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly , indigenous populations have accelerated rates of deforestation in their search for more extensive arable and grazing lands , and as populations Increase so to will the pressure on land . |
| 7 | Although Lashley 's failure led many behavioural psychologists to adopt a ‘ black-box ’ approach to learning ( specifying input and output variables but leaving their connections a mystery ) , neuroscientists continued their search for the engram undeterred . |
| 8 | In their search for alternative supplies , English furniture makers turned to other parts of Europe and , more important , to the New World . |
| 9 | His Experiments and Observations was avidly read by the Montgolfier brothers during their search for light permanent gases as lifting agents in 1782–83 . |
| 10 | As parents , teachers , and librarians , we wish to encourage young people and to support them in their search for understanding , expression , and confidence . |
| 11 | At the back of the hotel the army suddenly produced a generator designed to penetrate the deepest slumber and then added a searchlight which they shone , lighting up not only the surrounding countryside in their search for Red Brigade terrorists , but our hotel rooms as well . |
| 12 | They resumed their search for a way to anchor the hook . |
| 13 | Identical twins growing up with their own image constantly near them , sometimes very in tune with what the other is thinking and feeling , may have a problem in their search for a marriage partner on several counts . |
| 14 | Foxes became much more wide-ranging in their search for food , since they also depended to a large extent upon rabbits . |
| 15 | ‘ I was loath to disturb this curious state of affairs until your officers had completed their search for clues and the photographs had been taken . |
| 16 | Just accept it , remembering that an ability to show some sympathy and the courage to ‘ stay the course ’ with the bereaved , as they go through their sorrow and their search for a new identity , are the most important qualifications . |
| 17 | And ironically , the countries that Le Sentier 's businessmen worry might undercut their production are often the very places sans-papiers come from in their search for jobs . |
| 18 | Pamela Klein 's crusade against satanism certainly helped to create the right climate for the prevailing tendency of Christian Evangelic Charismatics to step up their search for signs that Satan was at work . |
| 19 | There were many complaints that cattle infested roadsides , and their search for food often took them to rice fields and gardens . |
| 20 | In their search for the key ingredients of the Japanese model , the Americans concluded that empowerment is an important aspect of achieving greater productivity from their workforce . |
| 21 | Both travelled widely in their search for new specimen plants and , on their sojourns , amassed an amazing collection of ethnographical curios and shells which they housed at Lambeth in a room known as ‘ The Ark ’ . |
| 22 | In their search for a market for great stores of goods , the capitalists screamed about the necessity of putting Germany on its feet , Austria on its feet , Russia on its feet , and talked about granting credits which would enable those countries to purchase from us , so clearing our markets and setting our industries going . |
| 23 | What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ? |
| 24 | The injured pilot was airlifted to safety but deadly gases from bubbling molten lava at first forced the 12 rescuers to abandon their search for the rest of crew . |
| 25 | Researchers at the University of Wales College , Cardiff , will pay volunteers to take medication and keep a diary of their illness in their search for a cure for the common cold . |
| 26 | CHELSEA last night moved a step closer to signing Russian international Dimitri Kharin and ending their search for chastised goalkeeper Dave Beasant 's replacement . |
| 27 | Oldham are to continue their search for a replacement for the injured Jon Hallworth after also hearing that any move for Grobbelaar — rated at around £400,000 — would be beset by complications . |
| 28 | FEDERAL officials yesterday made one arrest in their search for the bombers of the World Trade Centre in New York and authorities said they were looking for other suspects . |
| 29 | North Staffs are continuing their search for a mainline diesel but a recent visit to MC Metals in Glasgow to examine their ‘ Peaks ’ found a disappointing collection of cannibalised , sorry looking , Sulzers . |
| 30 | To the extent that these arenas support and acknowledge people 's feelings and their search for greater clarity , they must presuppose a set of values that is different from the one which underlies the common staffroom ethos ; and after a while this clash of values may become explicit . |