Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [noun pl] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Large numbers of teachers are looking for resources in the secondary school and classroom visits in the primary school . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Looking for tourist highlights in Montepulciano is , to change a crumbling analogy , rather like looking for elephants in the African bush . |
| 13 | " 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 . |
| 14 | In looking for buyers for the gold-producing assets , Hanson has been helped by the recent upturn in the gold price . |
| 15 | We are currently looking for trainees in the following areas : |
| 16 | The criteria for inclusion are complicated , but basically the doctors were looking for men in the top 10 per cent of overall risk . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He trod carefully , searching for pilots in the occasional glow of cigarettes . |
| 20 | From health and nutrition to high energy physics , from caring for babies to the latest manufacturing techniques — the choice is yours . |
| 21 | Nor was conflict within Merovingian society the sole cause of destruction : the passage of an army heading for campaigns outside the Frankish kingdom could be devastating , as the Septimanian expedition of 585 revealed . |
| 22 | According to colleagues , he has been seriously complaining for years about the parasitic passivity of arts television , which simply points a camera at a performance conceived and organised by someone else . |
| 23 | They are even calling for strikes for the first time in their history . |
| 24 | Other specific historical conditions and institutions distinct from those found in other Western European countries were also important in accounting for differences in the major characteristics of French trade unions . |
| 25 | His nose moved continually and when a bumblebee flew humming to a thistle bloom behind him , he jumped and spun round with a start that sent two near-by rabbits scurrying for holes before the nearest , a buck with black-tipped ears , recognized him and returned to feeding . |
| 26 | asking for guarantees for the physical safety of those who have been threatened and intimidated after giving evidence in the trial against the four policemen for the murder of Nahaman Carmona López ; |
| 27 | I could envisage a long-drawn-out court case with us all ending up homeless and bankrupt , sleeping in cardboard boxes and begging for crumbs from the rich man 's Scandinavian table , and I do n't like raw herrings , yuk ! |
| 28 | Dubrovnik has been suffering for months in the Yugoslavian civil war . |
| 29 | There will be much skirmishing for points towards the green jersey , the prize for consistency in daily placings . |
| 30 | Sir : The residents of this once tranquil village have been bickering for years about the best way to deal with increasing traffic . |