Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 2 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 3 | He now firmly refutes suggestions that he is unhappy with the Yorkshire set-up and is looking around for a move to another county . |
| 4 | I think that 's , that 's pretty consistent , probably with how bands are formed , actually , is n't it , its friends of friends , and somebody knows somebody else , and somebody 's looking round for a drummer , just happens that somebody mentions it to somebody else . |
| 5 | Long journey : Nigel Lupton , 32 , of Raby Road in Hartlepool , is training hard for a 900-mile cycle ride from Land 's End to John O'Groat 's next month . |
| 6 | ‘ The only problem is , my car is going in for a service , so maybe you could do me a favour and give me a lift there ? |
| 7 | And the Isle of Ely college is going out for a meal , so that wo n't be back , so he ca n't have that one , so we have n't got one ! |
| 8 | Our Dawn thinks she 's going just for a tea party when they to ask her to drink owt she just takes her time and drinks it . |
| 9 | he 's applied to the Metropolitan police , he 's going down for an interview in June |
| 10 | Oh Mary 's going out for a drink as well . |
| 11 | ‘ At the rate he 's working up he 's heading straight for a crisis some time today . ’ |
| 12 | While his clients have included dealers and museums , among them the British Museum , Patrick de Bayser says he is aiming mainly for a clientèle of private collectors . |
| 13 | The group is calling instead for an extension of the environmentally-sensitive areas ( ESA ) scheme , which compensates farmers for conserving selected sites of environmental importance , and for a move towards lower-input farming throughout the countryside , with the associated benefits of reduced fertilizer and pesticide use . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's getting on for an hour since we left Cartier . ’ |
| 15 | He is coming over for a tour which culminates in the Edinburgh Festival , and he will be promoting both this and his third Easy Rawlins tale . |
| 16 | In short answers unless it is crying out for a diagram do n't bother because you 'll spend five minutes drawing the diagram , labelling it , explaining what D P and D S means and it just wo n't work it definition , application , measurement problems , contention , |
| 17 | Does he agree with the Prime Minister who told me in a letter this week that even that does not justify a special economic initiative or does he agree with local industry which is crying out for a partnership with Government to take Britain out of recession ? |
| 18 | Birmingham is crying out for a venue for mid-size bands . ’ |
| 19 | East Stand ) Neither of them are now at leeds , one is playing in the USA and the other is dossing around for a year ( so he says ) before trying to get in with a lower division club . |
| 20 | Shadow community care minister David Hinchliffe is campaigning vigorously for a change in the law . |
| 21 | John Thorn , who makes red boxes for ministers , is standing by for a rash of orders . |
| 22 | There are also stressed forms , / / and / / , used when the word is emphasised or used by itself when the speaker is casting about for a substantive . |
| 23 | When he 's settling down for a sleep … |