Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] be [v-ing] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Salmond may well be right in supposing that Labour 's Scottish high command was looking for an excuse to wriggle out of its reluctant commitments to constitutional co-operation . |
| 2 | Congress , president , this motion is calling for an economic policy that combats mass unemployment . |
| 3 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 4 | In medieval times the acre or strip , which was the average day 's ploughing for an ox-team , was sometimes called a jurnalis ( or diurnalis ) in monks ' Latin and journel in French — that is , the amount of ploughing that could be done in one day . |
| 5 | Speculation that the Prime Minister is looking for an experienced figure to act as an advisor follows Norman Lamont 's devastating resignation speech last week . |
| 6 | At that particular time I would n't tell them anything , all my all at that particular time is waiting for an appointment to see them . |
| 7 | Both they and the Labour party are calling for an immediate change in the law to allow them to sell second-hand toys as before . |