Example sentences of "the search for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Star and the Daily Mail continued the search for female associates of The Fox with the headlines THE SAD MOTHER HE BETRAYED and THE MOTHER WHO CAN NOT BELIEVE respectively . |
| 2 | After 1982 , the Third World debt crisis also turned banks towards the home market in the search for creditworthy borrowers . |
| 3 | The extraordinary discovery in 1959 of a skull originally named Zinjanthropus ( East Africa Man ) provided an important impetus to the search for early man in the great Rift Valley of East Africa . |
| 4 | Darbishire of archive material hitherto housed in the Library has provided a brief respite in the search for additional shelf-space , which is now the Library Committee 's chief pre-occupation . |
| 5 | They also hamper the search for factual reality in sciences , where they have been tackled by a powerful culture of verification . |
| 6 | We have data on some hazardous sites ( e.g. those regulated by CIMAH ) in the UK but a much more comprehensive approach should be adopted , especially if we are serious in the search for environmental associations with chronic diseases . |
| 7 | However , it was not only on the Left that the search for radical solutions was being pursued . |
| 8 | Polybius pursues the search for individual responsibilities where non-Roman kings and leaders are concerned . |
| 9 | Even though JET is moving the search for economic fusion forward , not all are convinced that it is worthwhile . |
| 10 | If no distinction is made between public and private the search for good management is subverted by the ideology of " managerialism " : the belief that managerial expertise is the sole legitimate criterion for decision-making in public organisations . |
| 11 | There is a danger in the search for good practice of looking only at those schools with good academic records . |
| 12 | Like the army officers , the writer attempted to justify the recruitment practices of the Guards , and , as might be expected from a serious organ of right-wing opinion , more ingenuity was shown in the search for justificatory reasons than was by the lower-ranking quoted officers . |
| 13 | In theoretical physics , the search for logical self-consistency has always been more important in making advances than experimental results . |
| 14 | The search for comprehensive solutions to complex urban problems has once again defied disciplinary and professional boundaries . |
| 15 | The search for other materials to analyse has now progressed to copper alloys . |
| 16 | the search for other uses of under-employed resources at home . |
| 17 | This admonition dampened Soviet enthusiasm for invading Poland in 1980–81 and inspired the search for other means . |
| 18 | The resources of many pharmaceutical firms were applied to the search for new moulds and other micro-organisms . |
| 19 | The search for new policies led additionally to the widespread adoption of monetary targets in most economies , including the UK , apparently giving some acceptance of the monetarist claim that inflation is a consequence of a rapid growth in the money supply . |
| 20 | Its molecular modelling programs allow researchers to apply the most recent scientific theory and advances in computational chemistry to the search for new pharmaceuticals and advanced materials . |
| 21 | In the search for new initiatives one of his first moves was to seek the advice of the British ambassador , Sir Oliver Franks . |
| 22 | The position that Newman held , in seeing higher education as unconnected with the search for new knowledge , is no longer tenable . |
| 23 | The changing nature of these relationships can tell us much about broader aspects of political change in Mexico , in particular the extent to which the corporatist pact with peasants , labour and popular sectors has been eroded by the impact of the economic crisis and the search for new forms of political representation within civil society . |
| 24 | Acetylcholine was identified as a transmitter in the 1920s and 1930s , and what was known of its biology and chemistry guided the search for new drugs in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 25 | How quickly can those concerned with the search for new drugs switch to examination of lymph-node biopsy material for this assessment ? |
| 26 | The knowledge and experience of witch doctors is helping scientists , says DAVID SIMPSON , in the search for new drugs |
| 27 | 2 Of itself , however , the reality of group activity was probably of less significance than was the fact that the established theories of British politics suddenly came to appear as " wrong " , so prompting the search for new ways to make sense of things . |
| 28 | But , none the less , the aim to study the whole population determined the scope and the character of both these types of early surveys and , in so doing , encouraged the search for new ways of doing so cheaply through innovations in the applications of statistical theory to the selection of samples . |
| 29 | But rather to join in the search for new ways forward for the common future of our society and I suggest you might do worse than try a few committees and working groups on pragmatic coalitions , collaborative democracy and local community . |
| 30 | As such , it has significance for the coastal communities of Wales around which there are concentrations of tanker traffic , and a growing interest in the search for new oil reserves . |