Sentence examples for looking for likely from inspiring English sources

In others, they simply roamed Upper Manhattan looking for likely targets on the streets.

The gang has included a computer whiz who sifts through registries for planes and boats, looking for likely targets.

Press gangs roamed the streets after dark looking for likely young men to be bludgeoned into joining the navy.

Halfway into the weekend, clothes come off and participants are urged to hug someone: "I peered around, looking for likely candidates.

The majority of break-ins are done by individuals (most burglars work alone, but a few have one or more partners) in need of money who drive around looking for likely targets.

An army officer looking for likely recruits for the Government Code and Cipher School (now GCHQ) at Bletchley Park surprised the 18-year-old Stripp by asking a lot of questions about his interest in music and whether he played chess or took an interest in crosswords (two pastimes indicative of lateral-thinking ability).

The Americans looked for likely candidates for their largesse and the British mused about setting up a war-crimes tribunal on Iraq, akin to the Bosnian model.

That next step, in his view, is to sequence, or decode, patients' entire genomes and then to look for likely mutations in the genes themselves.

The tree of life exhibits, comprising an unusual mix of living plants, laboratory expertise and historical documents, show that many plants are surprisingly close relatives of others that seem quite different, a concept that helps botanists when they look for likely sources of useful plant chemicals or worry about maintaining biodiversity.

The magnetometer team looked for likely suspects.

Given that SLC39A14 negatively regulates PDE activity and that PDEs regulate several GPCR signaling pathways [42], we looked for likely GPCR pathways that might be affected by SLC39A14 expression.