Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [was/were] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An answer came from Huddersfield , where the Town Football Club were looking for an assistant to their secretary-manager Ambrose Langley , who had partnered Chapman 's brother at Hull before the war . |
| 2 | Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on Dec. 1 announced that his four-party coalition government was planning for a general election in March or early April 1992 . |
| 3 | Unfortunately shrinkage of revenue from these sources was not compensated for by growth of revenue from the notional 1 per cent VAT on a common base because consumption expenditures were accounting for a declining share of the GNP of the EC . |
| 4 | When , six months later , the English Opera Group was looking for a boy soprano to play the Little Sweep in a new production of Let's Make an Opera — in which the young Michael Ingram had previously treated a Brixton audience to on-stage nudity — Benjamin Britten remembered Michael , not so much for his singing , but for the havoc he caused at the earlier auditions . |
| 5 | It was confirmed that the Rank Organisation was looking for a buyer for its five star Royal Garden Hotel in London . |
| 6 | Two large motor horse-boxes were waiting for the horses , which were unloaded down and loaded up ramps . |
| 7 | This carried them to the Plain of Finuval where the shattered remnants of the Elf armies were assembling for a desperate last stand . |
| 8 | I got another breakthrough , my typing teacher told me that the London County Council were advertising for a Medical superintendent 's Clerk at the Western Fever Hospital in Fulham SW6 . |
| 9 | As early as 1929 , Herbert Morrison of the London County Council was pressing for the L.C.C . |
| 10 | Along with a Chinese freelance photographer , Cavell had called for her that morning and whisked her round some of Taipei 's famous landmarks , the all-marble Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial , a colourful Buddhist temple , and the Grand Hotel with its magnificent Chinese architecture , pausing only long enough at each for the young man to take the photos that would help introduce Maria to the Taipei public , before escorting her back to the apartment and approving the outfit she planned to wear to the dinner the radio station was hosting for the rest of the local media that night . |
| 11 | It is hardly surprising that health authorities and hospital managers were calling for the immediate introduction of capitation funding for fundholders as a means of stemming losses from their budgets . |
| 12 | The Sheila na gigh bus company was suing for the loss of its only bus and Mr Patel for his Woodbine machine . |
| 13 | LOOKING BACK , it s now possible to see that well before the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union the storm clouds were gathering for the nuclear dream . |
| 14 | No doubt Sophie was hoping for a lurid description . |
| 15 | Iran 's Prime Minister Moussavi was pressing for the dollar to be discarded as the unit of account for pricing oil , in favour of indexation to a basket of stronger currencies . |
| 16 | The Hospitality Inn was looking for a worthy home for unwanted furniture and bedding after refurbishment . |
| 17 | The speeds were a touch slower at Eastnor Park near ledbury where the country 's top mountain bikers were riding for the Malvern Classic … winner of the big race was the former cyclo cross champion Steve Douce … |
| 18 | At the time Barnard was working for the National Computing Centre , a quasi-governmental organisation in Manchester . |