Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After all , there has been little in the real world to justify optimism : economic activity has continued to fall — down 2.5% in 1991 and close to 0.8% in 1992 — unemployment is heading for the 3 million mark , business failures in 1992 ran 31% ahead of a year earlier . |
| 3 | Because industrial growth has been so fast there is virtually full employment , with a particular shortage of staff at the clerical/secretarial level , since the new generation of university-educated Singaporeans is aiming for the higher paid jobs . |
| 4 | They 're also acting as one of the major exhibition venues for Oxfordshire Artweek , which is running for the last 2 weeks in May . |
| 5 | Universal Pictures is hoping for the second lowest rating , PG parental guidance . |
| 6 | Similarly , in El Salvador , the formation of the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación-Farabundo Martí ( forerunner of the current FMLN ) in 1970 was a result of a bitter factional fight within the Salvadoran Communist party over revolutionary tactics , the final split being provoked by the party 's backing for the 1969 four-day war against Honduras ( Dunkerley : 1982 , pp. 87–102 ) . |
| 7 | Mr 's daughter , I think it 's his daughter , er is working for the British National Corpus and they are looking at the how words are used in ordinary everyday situations . |
| 8 | It then raised the possibility that ‘ there is indeed a faction within MI5 which is gunning for the former prime minister ( and by implication the whole Labour leadership ) . ’ |