Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are considering now short-term leases rather than sell on the market as it is at the present , and they are including the clinic in the buildings for which they are looking for alternative uses . |
| 2 | the election for which you are applying for an absent vote ; |
| 3 | We that 's where are you now , the number to ring if you know the whereabouts of anyone we were looking for . |
| 4 | They send you a Burton 's voucher to the value of whatever you 're looking for , be it ten quid or f and you go in there and you buy a suit you know and everybody 's happy . |
| 5 | Erm and erm and then obviously that 's something round in the region of what we 're looking for . |
| 6 | We get a lot of what we 're working for , right now . |
| 7 | Part of what we are striving for as a necessity of our being is simply survival in physical and mental health . |
| 8 | Even with minerals and lost objects we have a reasonably clear idea of what we are looking for and the dowser can be proved right or wrong . |
| 9 | Much of the difficulty of identification is caused by an almost complete ignorance of what we are looking for . |
| 10 | They invited the Spanish and local press to watch us train , which is exactly the opposite of what we were hoping for . |
| 11 | drawing up a list of questions in advance , is advised for standard interviews , so that comparison between candidates is easier and the interviewers have a clear idea of what they are looking for ; |
| 12 | The most interesting condition occurs under item 9 ( Liability of seller ) : Under the Trade Descriptions Act , SLAD may not stipulate the period of time of this warranty , but it recommends that its members guarantee the authenticity of what they are selling for a period of six years . |
| 13 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 14 | Moreover , agents of the process may be genuinely unaware of what they are doing for as long as they see good professional practice as unitary , consensual and unproblematic . |
| 15 | ‘ In order to get that Job , Scott , you have to clarify one thing in your mind — a picture of what they 're looking for as an anchorman . ’ |
| 16 | Mining company employees made no attempt to inform local residents of what they were prospecting for . |
| 17 | Vivienne Westwood , current British Designer of the Year , had a very clear idea of what she was looking for : ‘ Something unorthodox that people have n't seen before . |
| 18 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 19 | The knack in dowsing is to be in the right frame of mind , not caring too much what answer you get , but at the same time having a clear idea of what you are looking for , otherwise you are opening yourself up to a very wide ‘ waveband ’ and things will get very confused . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) A clear understanding of what you are looking for : |
| 21 | As we suggest in more detail in Chapters 2 and 3 , you will be able to find materials more easily and see the best arrangement for them when you have formed a sense of what you are looking for . |
| 22 | It should be said , nevertheless , that powerful search techniques , across such large databases , will still only contribute effectively to your essay-writing or research if you maintain a clear sense of what you are looking for and why — a guiding principle which is itself independent of the technology . |
| 23 | Waiting can be quite constructive if you have a clear idea of what you 're waiting for . ’ |
| 24 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 25 | a little portion of what I 'm paying for the heel . |
| 26 | A soldier should be married , gave him a sense of what he was fighting for . |
| 27 | It decreases the possibility of , of getting out of that situation because you 've got so many other people against , against whom you 're competing for work . |
| 28 | Indeed , given the level of activity within the Six at this time and the patent way in which Britain 's Grand Design seemed to go against everything they were working for , it is surprising that the Six were willing to discuss the scheme in the first place . |
| 29 | " Mr Rayne , d' you consider it honourable to profit from the distress of your comrades … of the men , women and children with whom you are fighting for your life ? " |
| 30 | Establishing rapport is the process of getting on the right wavelength with someone — usually , but not inevitably , with someone you are meeting for the first time . |