Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 2 | Croce , a noted Philadelphia cancer researcher , has only been collecting for the past ten years , specialising in Italian seventeenth-century paintings and drawings . |
| 3 | Carole Rue , BT 's network services development manager , said : ‘ Although the trial has only been running for a few weeks we 're most encouraged by the initial response from our customers . |
| 4 | I believe she used to be so reluctant about marrying people because marriage is important to her , she 's only been waiting for the right one . ’ |
| 5 | Although they have only been trading for the last ten years , they continue the tradition of using a water powered mill which started in the 1800s . |
| 6 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 7 | CAROLINE PARNELL looks at the Langbaurgh campaign Into battle again in constituency of contrasts Candidates from the three main political parties only are fighting for the marginal Langbaurgh seat and all three stood just five months ago . |
| 8 | Therefore I would not necessarily be looking for a secretarial position , and would be open to other suggestions . |
| 9 | like I 've just said , I 've just been speaking for a whole lesson , my voice is just I 've got to talk to you to explain what we 're doing , so let's quietly |
| 10 | The overall award went to the Chesham Building Society but because the awards were based on performance over the last 10 years , the Royal Bank should soon be pitching for the top spot . |
| 11 | On June 21 Kurt Waldheim , 72 , announced that he would not be standing for a second term as President in the elections due in 1992 . |
| 12 | Travis had raised himself out of his despair to quip that she and his cousin both worked for the same firm , but the message that had come across to her from the dark steely look of Naylor Massingham was that that might be true now , but , since she had chosen not to heed his warning , one of them would not be working for the same firm for very much longer ! |
| 13 | A Palace spokesman said : ‘ The letter is a forgery but we will not be pressing for a criminal inquiry . |
| 14 | As The Sunday Times said , ‘ When you finish The Kitchen God 's Wife , you will already be yearning for the next one , and the one after that . ’ |
| 15 | The reason for this is that the sub-continent 's representatives will still be competing for a one-day pot in Sharjah until the 20th . |
| 16 | The formal publication stage is much the same when it comes to record content — peer and institution review will still be looking for the same things . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ We are confident we will still be operating for a long time to come . |
| 18 | Public funding is being withdrawn from research and development which is of direct benefit to growers — like the evaluation of different varieties in the National Fruit Trials at Brogdale — but the Government will still be paying for a substantial amount of horticultural research at a number of centres spread across the country . |
| 19 | Among those who helped create the public library system in England were the benefactor Andrew Carnegie , whose libraries can be found from Ayr to Brentford , W.H. Smith , whose eponymous book chain still is bookselling for the average English man and woman , and Mr Gladstone . |
| 20 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 21 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 22 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |
| 23 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 24 | The stable , who may lose head lad Paddy Rudkin for a training job with Sheikh Mohammed in the Gulf at the end of the season , will also be looking for a new assistant trainer with Simon Bray leaving to gain more experience in America . |
| 25 | Unix International , which , like OSF , says it can no longer afford the $1m annual cost of membership ( UX No 404 ) will also be looking for a new role within the organisation come the end of 1992 . |
| 26 | She will also be going for a different image . |
| 27 | The first candidates have now been enrolling for the new , operational system , following the successful completion of the pilot phases of the Advanced Courses Development Programme during 1988–90 . |
| 28 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 29 | So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time . |
| 30 | At other times you may simply be looking for a good story with situations and characters which will interest and entertain your students . |