Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adj] change " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole object of sex is to have unlike acting on unlike so as to make possible the production of unlike offspring , thus allowing for adaptive change , Darwin argues . |
| 2 | Seeing the poverty around him while he was growing up , he joined in with the political groups agitating for social change . |
| 3 | Invited the Lord President to take soundings among Government supporters with a view to determining whether it would be possible to persuade those who were in favour of the abolition of capital punishment that in the interests of securing the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in the 1947–48 Session they should refrain from pressing for this change in the law ; |
| 4 | On the other hand they feared the working class who were also pushing for constitutional change against the aristocratic interest . |
| 5 | Let us not always be looking for great change . |
| 6 | Mining Awareness ( MA ) set itself three priorities : gathering information and disseminating it to the public ; lobbying for legislative change ; and calling for an independent environmental impact assessment . |
| 7 | On this sheet , on page two , we 've er , we 've performed equation two , right , on the sheet and the second page and it says that there 's , there are two alternative ways of testing for structural change using dummy variables . |
| 8 | In calling for radical change , the NCC recognised that pressure must be applied from both ends — downwards from central government and upwards from pedestrians themselves . |
| 9 | Herman Yameogo , son of the country 's first President , Maurice Yameogo , was in July 1990 expelled as secretary-general of the Movement of Patriotic Democrats ( Mouvement des démocrates progressifs — MDP , founded in 1987 ) for alleged financial irregularities and lack of democracy and for sending a letter to Compaore in May 1990 calling for political change , an act which the MDP called " irresponsible and subversive " . |
| 10 | Is n't he rather lax in calling for social change ? |
| 11 | It must be designed to constitute an essential component of those forces making for positive change in our country . |
| 12 | A number of executive members agreed that the newly formed Coalition for Scottish Democracy would take the lead on campaigning for constitutional change and be the main co-ordinator of future events . |
| 13 | Mr. Ibrahim Sadek , an Egyptian engineering consultant , lays the blame on the lack of unleaded fuel and to state production of outdated car engines : ‘ We are producing Fiats with engines designed back in the Forties ’ , he told the World Conference on Preparing for Climatic Change which ended in Cairo yesterday . |
| 14 | A video designed to introduce school children to the basic issues of Third World development , a handbook entitled Organising for Social Change , and a multimedia guide to community participation are just three of the products described in A Catalogue of Development Resources ( Media Services ) , published by Private Agencies Collaborating Together ( PACT ) . |
| 15 | Bunny felt in his pocket , fiddling for loose change . |
| 16 | Through extensive interviews , it focuses on the lives of 15 British men and women , aged between 70 and 90 , who have dedicated half a century or longer to working for social change and justice . |
| 17 | Since the resurgence of the women 's movement in the early 1970s and its subsequent development into feminism ( less an activist social movement than a political body of thought and cultural practices ) , film , as Annette Kuhn and others have pointed out , has been high on the agenda of women working for social change . |