Example sentences of "look for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The library user who looks for books of art criticism is not necessarily going to have an easy task . |
| 2 | The referee looks for open hands fluttering about in the opponent 's face , because they all too often ‘ accidentally ’ catch the opponent 's eyes . |
| 3 | She says she needs to gather up , in her post-modern skirt , all the creative , affirmative , intellectual parts of her childhood ; she needs to know how her folk survived , and when she looks for them in England , on TV , at the theatre , in art galleries , in advertising , they 're invisible . |
| 4 | Indeed , Norris looks for a possible rapprochement between deconstruction and the Anglo-American philosophical tradition exemplified by Searle , though he finds that Derrida has more possible affinities with Searle 's master , Austin . |
| 5 | The culture of science looks for rapid and visible results , and it is this , despite occasional formal disavowals , that is setting the agenda . |
| 6 | Infected programmes activate the virus when started up and it looks for other programmes to infect . |
| 7 | Cricket : Inquest looks for a victim : Derek Hodgson examines the problems facing today 's gathering of the Headingley hierarchy |
| 8 | JA II impresses first with how tiny it looks for a car with such a monstrous reputation , second for the sheer physical intensity of the power when the Ford V8 crashes into life . |
| 9 | It is here in the big crunch that Dr Tipler looks for God . |
| 10 | From there it looks for the infra-red ‘ signature ’ of a rocket 's exhaust . |
| 11 | After the Reformation it looks for a moment as if the Ecclesiastical Courts would allow even a divorce in the modern sense ; but the attempt fails , and the only way of getting a complete dissolution of marriage is by special Act of Parliament ( and so the law remained , for persons domiciled in Northern Ireland , up to 1939 ) . |
| 12 | Who wants to body bash ? ’ she shouts with her body language , as she looks for her type of guy in the park — a hunky Dobermann or a Rottweiler usually twice her size ! |
| 13 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 14 | Property : The Irish blessings worth counting Simon Courtauld looks for gold in the Emerald Isle |
| 15 | Out And About : Always blossom on the bough Winifred Carr looks for trees and shrubs providing continuous colour |
| 16 | But if one looks for Britain 's centre of gravity , it is found to be nearer the first in each pair of choices above . |
| 17 | Striker Bull looks for his 200th goal . |
| 18 | Shaper : pushes the team towards action , sets objectives and looks for outcomes ; dominant , extrovert and anxious . |
| 19 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 20 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |
| 21 | Surmounted by a slender clock-tower , which summoned the Belgian bourgeoisie to rendezvous with the trains as surely as any muezzin summoning the faithful to prayer , it looks for all the world as if it has been transported by some mischievous jinn on a magic carpet . |
| 22 | On the recommendation of a 1958 report from the Commons Select Committee on Estimates , a technocratic team had been commissioned to build on the forward looks for social-service and defence spending pioneered by the Treasury in the mid-fifties . |
| 23 | A little light patter while she looks for the file . |
| 24 | One finds reassurance in foreign examples if one looks for it : but ought we not to be looking more for stimulus ? |
| 25 | Growth is once again the watchword as the country looks for another period of expansion in higher education . |
| 26 | Europe looks for value-for-money in research |
| 27 | So complementary medicine looks for the healing of the whole individual : the different parts of the body as they interact with one another , the mind-body as an integral system , the harmony of the individual with his/her surroundings and the harmony of the Universe at large . |
| 28 | If we believe that it is right to push back the boundaries of middle age a few years , we can happily keep our young tastes and looks for a bit longer . |
| 29 | Keener looks for the right sound rather than dictating where microphones should be . |
| 30 | When a child looks for a particular size box or a piece of material of a certain colour or texture , he is taking early steps towards sorting . |