Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [noun sg] [prep] 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 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 4 | On Jan. 24 Harminder Singh Sandhu , the general secretary of the All-India Sikh Students ' Federation ( AISSF ) and a leading advocate of the establishment of Khalistan , who had been released from prison on Dec. 4 , was assassinated in Amritsar , by , it was widely speculated , factions struggling for supremacy within the Sikh militant movement . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only in Albania was the scenario of dynastic communism and vendetta carried on with more brutality and verve than in Romania , but at least there were two rival clans struggling for control of the Albanian Communist Party . |
| 7 | It banned all political parties , social organizations or mass movements involved in inciting ethnic or racial hostility , using violence on ethnic , racial or religious grounds , or agitating for violation of the territorial integrity of the USSR or any of its union or autonomous republics , autonomous oblasts or okrugs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In Sewell 's time the course of instruction , lasting generally for two sessions of nine months each , was given in the cooler months of the year , the brief viva voce examinations qualifying for entry to the Royal College 's diploma examinations being held in the unsuitable surroundings of the Freemasons ' tavern . |
| 10 | She was out cruising for a bruising from morning till night , and when she was apprehended soliciting for trade up the high street and gated for the evening , she spent it flat up against the back room window , flashing her underparts at any passing Harry , Dick or certainly Tom , and making the most loud and ear-curdling noises by way of enticement . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the first few months of this year , they accounted for 20% of those applying for asylum in the main European countries . |
| 13 | Among its first acts in office , the new government , committed to sweeping economic reforms aimed at the introduction of a market-based economy , announced on Dec. 11 , 1989 , that Czechoslovakia was applying for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank . |
| 14 | Geraldine Percy ended the male domination at the Mechanic 's Institute club , in Skinnergate , by applying for membership alongside the distinguished gentlemen who maintain the 150-year-old traditions . |
| 15 | There were also high drop-out rates from postgraduate study , with disillusioned academics applying for employment at the foreign hotels as waiters , porters and chambermaids . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was speaking quietly but fast , and pausing for breath in the wrong places the way politicians do when they fear interruption . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Donna glanced around , looking for Ryker amongst the three or four dozen other people who had left the train along with her . |
| 21 | Looking for happiness in the right place |
| 22 | We have identified them after looking for relatedness along the entire value chain , including both inputs and outputs , that make up the offering . |
| 23 | ‘ .. it will be a great disappointment to those looking for advice on the best available techniques of traffic management , or integrated transport and land use planning . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His life would take him far away from Bray 's Buildings as the years went by , searching for adventure on the high seas , visiting in reality places his parents could only have dreamed of . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When the others saw her heading for home after the latest sports or debating session they would say " Look out . |
| 28 | Routine Guthrie testing has been carried out for phenylketonuria since the mid-1970s and testing for hypothyroidism since the mid-'80s . |
| 29 | Does it provide a new way of paying for welfare in the 1990s ? |
| 30 | 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 . |