Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 2 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |
| 3 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 4 | These results suggest that ( allowing for the differences in trading hours between markets ) , information from foreign stock markets is reflected in the Finnish index futures market within a few hours , but not in the underlying spot market . |
| 5 | Allowing for the differences in stance has far more chance of success : then it is just a question of deciding which way the ball will fly from certain lies . |
| 6 | Even allowing for the similarities in language in these respects , however , the Conservative proposals sometimes had a different content from the Redcliffe-Maud approach . |
| 7 | The magistrate would also appear to have been infected with the same cheerful disposition : even allowing for the ravages of inflation , a ten shillings fine is a somewhat less than draconian response to a charge of pushing a policeman 's head through a shop window . |
| 8 | Allowing for the vagaries of memory , plus some very likely embellishing in the way Whitaker recounted the tale to his , then , fiancee , it is possible that the above tale contains just a couple of overt simplifications . |
| 9 | ( c ) If the death takes place after the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , but within seven years of the advance or determination , then in ascertaining for the purposes of CTT the value of the deceased 's estate immediately before his death there is to be included the value of any property which would have been chargeable with estate duty had Section 2 ( 1 ) ( b ) ( i ) of the Finance Act , 1894 , still been in force ( ie , after the application of any taper relief ) , unless the deceased was the surviving partner of a marriage which had been terminated by the death of the other spouse before 13/11/74 and the exempting provisions of Section 5 ( 2 ) of that Act would have applied had they still been in force ; and the persons accountable for the tax are those who would have been accountable under Section 44 of the Finance Act , 1950 , for any estate duty that would have been chargeable . |
| 10 | In October 1981 be floated the company on the Stock Exchange and four months later be merged Habitat with Mothercare , the world 's largest chain of stores catering for the needs of mothers and babies , and became chairman of the Habitat Mothercare Group plc . |
| 11 | I think the worst of all locations would be a , would be one where the new settlement would be catering for the needs of Leeds , if it were were located along the A sixty four corridor , South South South of York . |
| 12 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 13 | In this task , the production of materials catering for the needs of pupils of all abilities will be seen as a priority . |
| 14 | Barnes and club-mate Ben Clarke were appearing for the Barbarians against Australia at Twickenham while their Bath colleagues were sinking 9–8 at Blundellsands to Second Division Waterloo in the third round on Saturday . |
| 15 | Chapuisat , whose ambition is to play in Italy , feels that if the Scots lose on Wednesday then he and his team mates will take a gigantic stride towards qualifying for the finals in America . |
| 16 | They pace together through the forest in silence , scanning the canopy intently , sometimes stopping and listening for the calls of colobus . |
| 17 | They began training for the finals in January involving twice-weekly practice sessions in the Barlaston canteen after work . |
| 18 | We are always looking for the revolutions in music , people like Prince or Jimi Hendrix . |
| 19 | In considering drama 's place in topic work , we have to start by thinking how we might dramatise the topic ; and that means seeking out human dilemmas , looking for the moments of change in a situation , or the moments when change might be possible ; we 're looking for those moments when people make choices . |
| 20 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 21 | Hundreds of them suddenly erupt from a tiny hole in the sand and start sprinting across the dune looking for the bodies of insects that may have collapsed from heat stress . |
| 22 | Although he did n't say so , Lyn knew he was looking for the marks of Peach 's claws . |
| 23 | As police looking for the remains of Joan Main continued digging at the back of a townhouse in Swindon 's Old Town , her ex-husband David Main , whose house it once was , appeared before magistrates charged with her murder . |
| 24 | Mrs Bessie Forde , then a member of the choir , recalls how any girl actively interested in church life could spend the week : Monday evening the Junior and Senior CE Societies ; Tuesday and Thursday evenings the GLB company , led by Mrs Waugh and Miss Mildred Forsythe , met regularly in Edenderry ) ; Wednesday the Midweek service ; Friday the choir practice and on Saturday a prayer meeting for the services on Sunday . |
| 25 | Heads could make better use of their time by paying attention to those encouraging little friendly attributes , searching for the successes of others and praising them shamelessly . |
| 26 | To the psychologist searching for the determinants of personality this sort of outcome is disappointing ; to the parent , on the other hand , it should be good news . |
| 27 | Police in Jersey searching for the bodies of Nicholas and Elizabeth who were killed six years ago have found what appear to be human remains . |
| 28 | As the Scotland fans dispersed in shame , heading for the bars of Soho and the long train journey home , they created one of the country 's most enduring jokes . |
| 29 | Slipstreaming away , waiting for the bits of gristle from the sandwiches . |
| 30 | In fact its name still adorns the large office block in Paddock Wood — they 're waiting for the Friends of Felix Dhjerzinsky to come and remove it — but below is enscribed the new and politically squeaky-clean name of ‘ English Hops ’ . |