Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [noun sg] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shankill player Cowan , the former Irish Junior number one , is no longer eligible for Junior events and welcomes the opportunity to share the team bench with the legendary Slevin , now competing for Lubeck in the German National League . |
| 2 | Despite the wealth of evidence that nuclear power can never under-price fossil fuel-generated electricity , BNFL is looking at ways of competing for supply in the open market . |
| 3 | On Saturday he was back in his own Opel and despite struggling for grip in the slippery Fermanagh forests he played safe to finish 35 seconds behind the Ford Escort Cosworth of Leckey . |
| 4 | This matter was raised again at the Nomenclature Committee 's 1991 meeting , when it was noted that IUPAC recommended the ‘ f ’ spelling for sulphur in the 1990 edition of Nomenclature of inorganic chemistry while retaining the common UK spellings for caesium and aluminium . |
| 5 | According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year . |
| 6 | In the first few months of this year , they accounted for 20% of those applying for asylum in the main European countries . |
| 7 | They were hunting for evidence in the horrific case which detectives have dubbed the worst since child killers and torturers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley . |
| 8 | She was speaking quietly but fast , and pausing for breath in the wrong places the way politicians do when they fear interruption . |
| 9 | Scroll forward to this week , reverse the picture ; and the world sees America pushing for intervention in the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia , while Europe nervously resists . |
| 10 | IF EVER any miserable bastards were looking for evidence in the tedious ‘ American Bands Are Better Than Their Limp Bit Counterparts ’ argument , then the imbalance between Yanks Velvet and Glaswegian wranglers Perspex would ( unfortunately ) send the US-ophiles sprinting around a victory lap at Wem-ber-lee Stadium . |
| 11 | Looking for happiness in the right place |
| 12 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 13 | If you dip the end of the wires in a stream where such fish are searching for food in the muddy bottom , you will hear a series of clicks . |
| 14 | Does it provide a new way of paying for welfare in the 1990s ? |
| 15 | They are paid to compensate for any additional costs incurred in paying for accommodation in the overseas location over and above that which would be incurred at home . |
| 16 | You could almost hear them scuttling for cover in the comfortable lobby of a Hornchurch hotel , as the Hilton resounded with a familiar sound . |
| 17 | But he is afraid he have to correct Mr Browne on a matter of geography : the British troops were not waiting for war in the Kuwaiti desert ; that was the Iraqi troops . |
| 18 | Nor was Anglo-United the only company prospecting for gold in the early eighties . |
| 19 | They had Millwall running for cover in the first half and for once made the most of their superiority . |
| 20 | We can assess the direct effect of age ( X 2 ) on preparedness to break the law controlling for income in the same way . |
| 21 | In reality Roland had been killed in a Basque ambush at the Pass of Roncesvaux but in twelfth-century legend he died gloriously , fighting for Christendom in the great war against the infidel . |
| 22 | A report in the Sept. 10 edition of the Far Eastern Economic Review described the activities of the United Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Races ( Fulro ) , the Montagnard guerrilla army which had been fighting for autonomy in the Central Highlands since the 1960s . |
| 23 | Preparing for bed in the new wing that was not now a new wing , after the fire that seemed so long ago , Groa heard the chorussing and the laughter , muffled through two walls , and smiled . |
| 24 | The American 's triple bogey eight at the fourth hole had him gasping for air in the suffocating heat as he stumbled out in 41 . |
| 25 | Courtship occurs throughout the breeding season , as individuals pair before laying for breeding in the same year , or pair later in the season for breeding in the following year . |
| 26 | The Government and security forces will continue to meet their responsibility to bring terrorism to an end within the rule of law by pursuing a firm and resolute security policy and by working for progress in the political , economic and social fields . |
| 27 | The group is centred around Professor X , the Overseer ; Brother J , the Grand Verbaliser Funkin-Lesson ; and the Rhythm Provider , Sugar Shaft — upfront , serious brothers bringing a spiritual neo-nationalism to the streets of urban America , using hip hop culture to introduce and develop Blackwatch , a youth organisation working for self-help in the black inner cities . |