Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In LBC 's case , for example , the LBC Crown FM is going for the upmarket listener , while the medium wave service , London Talkback Radio , is pitching for the tabloid market and the dedicated followers of phone-ins . |
| 2 | YOUNG mum Angie Wilson is praying for a speedy end to her homeless heartache for she is expecting a third baby in just nine weeks time . |
| 3 | He wants to know what the job of a Euro MP is , well he is applying for a Euro seat , I do wish him the best of luck and when he 's been there |
| 4 | Others will invite parents to attend for interview when their son or daughter is applying for a Compact job . |
| 5 | To counter this , Mr Ozal is pressing for a modest change that would allow Turkey 's Kurds the right to speak their own language . |
| 6 | Mr Crowther is pressing for a judicial review of the whole Department of Transport that would look into the government 's road policy . |
| 7 | ARCHY KIRKWOOD , the Liberal Democrat MP , is pressing for a National Audit Office inquiry after discovering that the Inland Revenue wrote off almost £900 million in unpaid taxes in a single year . |
| 8 | The Government is pressing for the entire ERM system to be suspended until after France 's referendum on the Maastricht Treaty on Sunday . |
| 9 | He is pressing for an early meeting with Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd , who has been sent a copy of the survey . |
| 10 | In the meantime , a leading US food manufacturer is pressing for an exclusive deal with Staley to help it challenge rivals which already product diet cakes and desserts based on Simpless and other formulations . |
| 11 | Companies from the UK , Canada , USA , Finland , Germany and France are tendering for schemes in Hungary , while the British company GEC-Alshom is bidding for a dry store contract for Czechoslovakia 's Dukovany plant . |
| 12 | " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says . |
| 13 | Johan Cruyff is challenging for the European Cup with Barcelona after he had the operation last year . |
| 14 | He has kicked the booze , lost weight , and he is itching for the Italian League to get under way . |
| 15 | Oooh … heres a thought … maybe Strachs injury looks quite bad , and Wilko is looking for a right back , so he can have Kelly as a choice for right midfield aswell as right back ( and striker ) . |
| 16 | Australia 's Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute is looking for a joint venture partner in North America for Atlas , its C-based database management system . |
| 17 | Sir — If anyone is looking for a good cause to support — perhaps as a competitor in the ADT London Marathon , or in some other activity — please remember the NSPCC . |
| 18 | The group is looking for a major balance sheet boost with the sale of its spectacle lens business Sola , which made a £10m profit in the first half . |
| 19 | Now the RSPCA is looking for a new site locally so it can build a much larger shelter : |
| 20 | A household name in the world of aviation spares is looking for a new owner to carry on its traditions . |
| 21 | Meta Group analyst , Kate Fessenden , claims OSF is looking for a graceful exit and that once OSF/1.1 comes out , and Unix SVR4 applications are able to run on it , it will simply be allowed to wither away . |
| 22 | Siemens AG has now acknowledged that it is looking for a strategic partner for its troubled Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , which is facing growing woes over the next couple of years now that the German economy is plunging into what threatens to be deep recession . |
| 23 | The interviewer is looking for a relapsed sport or hobby which can be restarted and used as behavioural tasks in homework assignments . |
| 24 | Some have experience , others are beginners but already Eddie is looking for a local golf course that will accept their membership as a club to provide a base . |
| 25 | The mainframe may be moribund , but if so , the South Korean government has not heard about it : it is looking for a foreign partner to build mainframes locally from 1997 , Reuter reports from Seoul . |
| 26 | And that 's what 's threatening to people , because it is looking for a direct response ; it 's looking to form a dialogue . |
| 27 | But the fact is that the government is looking for a huge expansion in student numbers nationally and we at Birmingham are keen to play our part , not least because we know that there are many more people who can benefit from a university education ( as you have done ) than are able to at present . |
| 28 | It is aimed primarily at the generalist reader concerned with information resources and their use , who is looking for a non-technical assessment of what multimedia is , what it does and how it may be used in a range of applications . |
| 29 | Therefore , when one comes to section 63(2) one is looking for the additional expense incurred in or in connection with the provision of the benefit . |
| 30 | Therefore , it is said , one is looking for the actual cost of providing that benefit for the employee . |