Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bill has already been modified by the Senate following amendments presented by various political groups who were pressing for tax reductions for buildings of artistic or historic interest which only generate a small income but which are expensive to maintain . |
| 2 | In that case you 're looking for thirty five thirty six thousand which would be mister average in our company . |
| 3 | ‘ Now remember , lads , ’ he briefed them as they scuttled purposefully over the rough rocky ground , ‘ this is n't some parasite we 're searching for , it 's a Chelonian officer . |
| 4 | Ferranti-Thomson Sonar Systems UK Ltd , based in Stockport , is to use the T9000 Transputer in the Active Dipping Sonar it is developing for the Royal Navy 's £100m Merlin Anti-Submarine Warfare helicopter . |
| 5 | The young health correspondent on a new glossy mag he was freelancing for said it could be one of three things . |
| 6 | But RSI sufferes who 're hoping for some compensation from their employers are worried the Judge 's ruling may make harm their chances . |
| 7 | These observers also think HaL has outdone its original specification for Fairbanks and Nome and will get better than the 100 MIPS and 175 MIPS they were shooting for . |
| 8 | These observers also think HaL has outdone its original specification for Fairbanks and Nome and will get better than the 100 MIPS and 175 MIPS it was shooting for . |
| 9 | ‘ But all that day and the next few days I was waiting for someone to come in . |
| 10 | All the same , I ca n't help feeling a little anxious about this relish he is revealing for anarchy . |
| 11 | The few tenants who are searching for short-term leases are now able to negotiate break clauses in leases for new buildings . |
| 12 | On this occasion he is posing for us with the ‘ stripper ’ in one of the kilns . |
| 13 | When police and soldiers resumed their search of the area around Cirencester Golf Course this morning they were looking for a body . |
| 14 | You know this morning you were looking for . |
| 15 | This month we 're asking for a little more . |
| 16 | ‘ While EC and central government grant assistance still plays a part in the DPTC 's training income , it is now channelled through the user organisations to offset the full commercial rates we are charging for courses . |
| 17 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 18 | Judy lives in Manchester and hires her friend 's 17-year-old daughter who 's studying for her A levels . |
| 19 | As it happened , as I say , I was apprentice at Vickers Armstrong and I moved on , quite obviously , to another firm who were looking for people like this . |
| 20 | What I 'm suggesting really , is let's get it on the agenda for budget review whenever the next meeting is , to be considered in depth , and if that gives an extra couple or three weeks for officers to write the report , fine , if it goes beyond the next policy and resources a week or two wo n't matter in the scheme of things , it 's detailed consideration I 'm looking for , rather than a fast fix in ten minutes at the next P and R. |
| 21 | ‘ When we stopped at Glastonbury , Mistress Rachel sent a message , God knows how , to that old witch who was waiting for us with her prophecies . |
| 22 | And for this reason we are looking for a suitable name . |
| 23 | Could that 8-way SunBox we 're looking for ( UX No 429 ) have been code named Scorpion ? |
| 24 | In London it 's only Annabel 's or Tramp — the rest do n't happen for the certain crowd , the newspaper-worthy crowd I 'm looking for . ’ |
| 25 | Tupper , robust in his comment as always , regarded the " employment of cheap Chinese labour as an act of treachery towards the British Nation which was fighting for its life " . |
| 26 | The paper offers a model derived from ‘ job search theory ’ which is concerned with the optimal behaviour of an unemployed individual who is searching for a suitable job in the labour market . |
| 27 | In this discussion I am taking for granted certain obvious features . |
| 28 | Headline is enjoying this lovely writer , but it is his Cornish sagas we are waiting for , which I am told will make up the next book . |
| 29 | The long , silvery , all-metal kitchen was already occupied by two figures dressed in white trousers and jackets topped by high white paper hats : the diminutive lady chef from Montreal and a tall willowy young man who introduced himself as Angus , the special chef employed by the outside firm of top-class caterers who were providing for this journey the sort of food not usually served on trains . |
| 30 | This time they 're hoping for a happier ending . |