Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also signs that in the new era of competitiveness between them , institutions are becoming reluctant to open their course offerings to the critical gaze of panel members drawn from institutions competing for contracts with the funding bodies . |
| 2 | Some 30 hopefuls from each age group will be selected for the finals , with the players competing for places in the Under-21 matches against Scotland and Wales , and the Under-18s United Kingdom and England tournament in Scotland . |
| 3 | So we find him circling for months around the insoluble problem of Kee , exulting and then despairing , then exulting again . |
| 4 | Even allowing for differences between the two surveys , it seems fairly likely that the rate of known opioid use was much higher in Wirral than Brighton during 1984 and 1985 . |
| 5 | And their next four home matches could all be full houses as Roker fans , clamouring for tickets for the 80,000 sell-out final against Liverpool or Portsmouth , try to make sure of their Wembley places . |
| 6 | We have been struggling for years with an inadequate meat hygiene inspection system and we need , as soon as possible , to replace it with a centralised system that will guarantee high standards and uniform costs . |
| 7 | A country vet , especially in the Yorkshire Dales , never had the chance to get out of condition ; he was always on the move , wrestling with the big animals , walking for miles between the fell-side barns ; he was hard and tough . |
| 8 | If Ogarkov 's demotion in September 1984 revealed anything beyond a straight-forward preference to utilise his skills more effectively , then punishment came not for losing an argument , but for breaking the rules — for carrying on arguments after being overruled and pressing for prerogatives in the military-technical and military-political areas which were not rightfully his . |
| 9 | Remember to reduce the seat price if you are applying for seats at a concessionary rate . |
| 10 | Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun . |
| 11 | The Fed 's policy-making Open Market Committee met last Wednesday to set monetary growth goals for the second quarter and since then punters have been looking for signs of a massive rate cut . |
| 12 | The Wimbledon Churches Youth Project are still looking for premises for a young people 's advice centre . |
| 13 | Large numbers of teachers are looking for resources in the secondary school and classroom visits in the primary school . |
| 14 | ‘ We are looking for members of the Asian community who can provide memories of when they first came into the area , how they got employment , how the locals opened up to them , their first impressions of Britain and the problems of racism they may have encountered . ’ |
| 15 | You can drive along a motorway for years and see nothing , but once you learn the quivering shape above the verge is a hovering kestrel looking for voles in the short grass , it becomes difficult to pass a kestrel ever again without mentally noting what it is , what it is doing and why it is there . |
| 16 | It is looking for products with a worldwide sales potential of $30m to $100m in three to five years . |
| 17 | ‘ Bill was being treated at South Cleveland Hospital and he saw notices that they were looking for donations for the holistic centre in the new hospital building . |
| 18 | I have been looking for ages for a Victorian birdbath , without much success . |
| 19 | Looking for tourist highlights in Montepulciano is , to change a crumbling analogy , rather like looking for elephants in the African bush . |
| 20 | " In view of the unpopularity the nuclear industry has earned in the developed world , it is now looking for markets in the developing world , " Greenpeace said . |
| 21 | In looking for buyers for the gold-producing assets , Hanson has been helped by the recent upturn in the gold price . |
| 22 | We are currently looking for trainees in the following areas : |
| 23 | The criteria for inclusion are complicated , but basically the doctors were looking for men in the top 10 per cent of overall risk . |
| 24 | In addition , Moscow was at that time , after the discovery of rich deposits in the Urals , looking for outlets for a disposable surplus of crude oil . |
| 25 | With these words , leading Christian Bangladeshi editor , Susanta Adhikari , summed up his vision of Christian writing and publishing for participants at the fourth Bangladeshi Booksellers and Writers Workshop which was held in Dhaka on 25–27 July . |
| 26 | A top copy writer says : " When I look at people 's work now I 'm searching for signs of an original mind … of imagination . " |
| 27 | It starts on Wednesday , and , you know , I 'm taking time off from searching for props at the last minute and dress rehearsing to come and talk to you . |
| 28 | He trod carefully , searching for pilots in the occasional glow of cigarettes . |
| 29 | It is necessary , however , that society recognises the importance of caring for others as a fundamental part of living . |
| 30 | From health and nutrition to high energy physics , from caring for babies to the latest manufacturing techniques — the choice is yours . |