searching look

collocation in English

meaningsofsearchingandlook

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searching
adjective
uk
/ˈsɜː.tʃɪŋ/us
/ˈsɝː.tʃɪŋ/
intended to find out the often hidden truth ...
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look
noun
uk
/lʊk/us
/lʊk/
the act of looking at someone ...
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(Definition ofsearchingandlookfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They rightly prompted asearchinglookat the policy on such toys.
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Those are some of the basic things that call for the mostsearchinglookinto what is going on.
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Second, we are taking asearchinglookat the safeguards on meat imports.
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Asearchinglookneeds to be given to the basis of the advice on which many of us have been acting in the past.
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In another place there has been a long andsearchinglookinto the points.
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When we are spending public money, as we are here, asearchinglookmust be taken at how it is spent.
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He should have the same courage to take a new andsearchinglookat this legislation.
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It took a long andsearchinglookat the effects of the 1975 defence review.
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It is, therefore, right that there should be a long andsearchinglookat the structure of a service which was created almost 25 years ago.
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I hope in particular that there will be asearchinglookand attempt at producing a realistic balance sheet of the net income received from abroad through the oil industry.
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