Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 2 | But I knew this was wishing for the impossible . |
| 3 | The Labour Department said the figures were in line with economists ' forecasts , but many were looking for a modest reduction . |
| 4 | 12 Grace Leybourne buttressed such arguments in Education and the Birth Rate by demonstrating that the middle classes and the intelligent were paying for the high costs of education by family limitation at the dysgenic expense of the national interest . |
| 5 | Most were looking for a local representative . |
| 6 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |