Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would personally like to see more erm sort of grading of erm more , more higher standards being set by the sort of head offices of people who own things like chains of motorway service areas , not catering for the lowest common denominator , but aiming to really have an absolutely top quality service , cleanliness , everything , in all parts of their business . |
| 2 | East European countries are thus competing for the best western companies just as western companies are competing for contracts . |
| 3 | Grade III buildings were those which , whilst not qualifying for the first statutory list when compiled in 1949–69 , were considered nevertheless to be of some importance for planning purposes . |
| 4 | We started off just looking for a few cuddly toys and a few pounds to send them across to the folk in Roumania because we were all very touched by the need of the children there . |
| 5 | I 'm not asking for a few soothing words to calm my conscience ; if I can , I want to help . |
| 6 | As stressed earlier , I am not arguing for a revived regional geography per se , but rather for ‘ a regional perspective that informs all geographical activity ’ Johnston , 1990b , p. 135 ) . |
| 7 | They 're already planning for a new MOT-type inspection for small boats . |
| 8 | His Queensland team-mate , Michael Doohan , the winner in Japan , set the qualifying pace ahead of defending champion Wayne Rainey , on a Yahama , and Kevin Schwantz , the Suzuki team leader , who is still looking for a first major title breakthrough . |
| 9 | The winter sales may be coming to an end … but Gloucester 's rugby men are still looking for a few late bargains when they head north to Sale this weekend . |
| 10 | I think that perhaps some people are still looking for the Great White Hope , as they did in the days of John L. Sullivan , the first black World Heavyweight boxing champion . |
| 11 | This may have brought comfort to some but statistically it was as risky as playing Russian roulette , and I laid off smoking for the next seven years . |
| 12 | For most of the Eighties , Punjab has been wracked by vicious conflict between the security forces and half a dozen incoherent but well-armed groups ostensibly fighting for a free Sikh state of Khalistan , the Land of the Pure . |
| 13 | For most of the Eighties , Punjab has been wracked by vicious conflict between the security forces and half a dozen incoherent but well-armed groups ostensibly fighting for a free Sikh state of Khalistan , the Land of the Pure . |
| 14 | But the furore is certain to bump up Rogan 's sales among Smiths fan who — even after all these years — are still pining for the last great rock band . |
| 15 | I have suggested that it is the function of grammar to reduce the range of meaning signalled by words so as to make them more effective in the identification of features of context , thereby providing for the increased indexical potential of lexis . |
| 16 | We conclude that acute cigarette smoking causes a significant fall in gastric secretion ( Vg ) , and suggest that this results in raised gastrin values that have a tropic effect on the parietal cell , thereby accounting for the raised secretory capacity of chronic smokers . |
| 17 | FULL-TIME Communication , the satellite television company which has offered English football £500 million over 10 years , are also bidding for the glamorous final stages of the European Cup . |
| 18 | But the second games started , Merton would move , striding like a supermarket trolley attendant into the ring and ignoring all the ‘ rules ’ of improvisational comedy that the other clever-clever types had been carefully developing for the previous few years . |
| 19 | FULL-TIME Communication , the satellite television company who have offered English football £500 million over 10 years , are now bidding for the glamorous final stages of Europe 's premier competition , the European Cup . |
| 20 | He joins Cheltenham fourth The Fellow , now heading for the Irish Grand National or Whitbread Gold Cup , among the absentees . |
| 21 | We are now heading for The Green Nineties . |
| 22 | With processors galloping at 66MHz it means that there will be times when the processor is held back waiting for a slow peripheral to catch up . |
| 23 | Sadly , space is often lacking for the ideal secret garden . |
| 24 | We are now preparing for the next critical round . |
| 25 | Now preparing for the next ten years , Stevo refuses to be predictable . |
| 26 | Even allowing for the contemporary French intellectual fashion which puts a premium on witty forms of oracular paradox this seems a bit far out . |
| 27 | IPSWICH Jaffa return to Stopsley Park , Luton , tomorrow bidding for an incredible fourth successive win in the Today 's Runner Cross Country League national finals . |
| 28 | PROFESSIONAL hunters called in by police were today searching for a great white shark that killed a scuba diver on his honeymoon . |
| 29 | that lady is on , been on the corner , standing there talking for the last twenty minutes which must mean that Mark was late to school this morning so then |
| 30 | Nayim now forward to Paul Stewart , sorry to Paul Allen , Allen lays it wide now to Fenwick , Fenwick to Gascoigne , Gascoigne cuts inside , this is where he 's his most dangerous , Gascoigne going forward looking for the one two to Walsh , to Gascoigne , Gascoigne 's on his way through , Gascoigne shoots — tremendous tackle — oh what a goal by Paul Gascoigne . |