Example sentences of "we look for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Are we looking for freshness and flavour , or are we happy to forgo these for the headier feeling that longevity might be achieved if we avoid imbibing pesticide residues .
2 Are we looking for sincerity , value for money , and good design features ?
3 Where might we look for help in a critical offensive ?
4 In winter we look for work on the more difficult lowland sites such as coastal paths .
5 We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work .
6 If we have only indicators what his methodological reasoning suggests is that we look for patterns among indicators which might suggest that we have found something of substance and significance .
7 And yet , if we look for signs of the biblical revival that the Council wanted to awaken , in many ways and in many parts of the Catholic world the answer is indeed ‘ yes ’ , and all the more so if we remember how much leeway there was to be made up in knowledge and use of the Bible by Catholics .
8 We look for signs that speak to us of character — good or bad .
9 The possible states preceding the solution-state are taken as destinations and we look for states that might have preceded each of them … and so on back , until we are within range of where we start .
10 With an opportunity we look for benefits .
11 It 's now , in our thirties , that we look for change .
12 So we look for situations where our learners will really have something they want to say to each other .
13 In these circumstances , whenever , we need independent opinion , we look for confirmation of our confidence in the credibility of the credibility of the people concerned : we then back their judgement on the likelihood of success , for they will be staking part of their careers and reputations on the outcome .
14 Depending on we look for details , as we go through it .
15 If we look for clusters in this space of species , differentiated by coarse discrete characteristics , then we do indeed find quite striking clusters .
16 We look for chocolate wrapped in silver paper
17 Naturally , we look for deportment and how the flowers are carried , for colour and splendour , for abundance , for the sweet scents and the period over which the bloom is carried , and for resistance to rain , pest and disease .
18 Further strength in the dollar ( we look for $1.35 v sterling ) will enhance these benefits for UK companies .
19 We look for solutions in the form ( where , of course , the real parts correspond to the physical quantities ) .
20 Only we look for self-transcendence . ’
21 We look for staff who can be part of our Fun Ship image and work in a team that ensures that our guests have a vacation that lives up to our high standard .
22 After three hours we looked for land .
23 We looked for years but could n't find her .
24 Finally , we looked for ways of making secondments as effective as possible from the outset .
25 We looked for squirrels red squirrel and grey squirrel — live happily side by side at Vyrnwy — but today they were deep in the forest .
26 We looked for redress from the Mamur Zapt and received none .
27 ‘ I would have driven myself except we 've had a party of Australians land on us looking for accommodation on the off-chance .
28 In fact , the widespread finding that the word for ‘ mother ’ in unrelated languages often includes the sound ‘ ma ’ might lead us to look for sound symbolism as the underlying common factor .
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