Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This may sound an obvious sort of compromise , but it is the kind of ethical advice many managers have been looking for . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | he 's been able to get round it really , it might well be above board , but the police have been looking into it |
| 10 | Police have been looking for the killer of seventy year old Jim Eggleton since his battered body was found five weeks ago . |
| 11 | All the dealers who habitually haunt Sothebys salerooms have been looking at the furniture and glassware and silver . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Antique dealers and bargain hunters have been looking through the belongings of the late Robert Maxwell . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Is this the relief that MS sufferers have been looking for ? |