Example sentences of "be [verb] [v-ing] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time that would have been spent waiting for the Department of Social Security to answer the telephone might instead have been used to uncover what Sally 's own priorities are . |
| 2 | Thereafter he received an annual salary of twenty pounds a year each year down to 1262 and can be traced acting for the king in litigation until 1267 . |
| 3 | One year a thunderstorm washed out a lot of buttercup petals , so at 8am one Sunday morning , ladies were to be seen heading for the well to make running repairs before the blessing of the well took place in the afternoon . |
| 4 | Recruitment took place in Bengal as well as in South India , and the remarkably comprehensive Murray 's Handbook pointed out to European travellers the stations where the migrants might be seen entraining for the tea plantations . |
| 5 | The main focus of his activity on the king 's behalf during this period was the court of King 's Bench , but he can also be found speaking for the king in the Common Bench as well . |
| 6 | No law shall be enacted providing for the grant of a dissolution of marriage . |
| 7 | He insisted the scheme was not in tatters and the main effect of the banks ' decision would be to make applying for a loan less convenient for students . |
| 8 | Catering for the resident population appears to be include catering for the population that will come into the town in order to do the new work that will be brought to the town by their policies . |
| 9 | Now the Warsaw pact has completely dissolved itself , so the experts in SHAPE headquarters at NATO are left looking for a role for NATO to perform . |
| 10 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |
| 11 | In terms of price , Hamer challenge Gibson 's own reissues amongst other quality guitars , and I 'm sure that if someone were to go shopping for an instrument with a classic tone , but prepared to keep an open mind and buy with their ears , then they may well end up going home with a Hamer . |
| 12 | New boys were excused fagging for a fortnight until they had found their feet . |
| 13 | He strode to the reception desk , made a brisk enquiry and then came straight over to where Patrick and Chris were standing waiting for the lift . |
| 14 | Male contacts of women with trichomonal vaginitis can be shown to harbour the organism in a certain proportion of cases , and this proportion can be increased if extra care and time is taken looking for the protozoon . |
| 15 | Morris was concussed playing for the North at the weekend . |
| 16 | The dinner hour was spent revising for a test we 're supposed to be having on . |
| 17 | At the same time an agreement was signed providing for a grant of 2,400,000 European currency units ( ECU1=US$1.19255 as at March 26 , 1990 ) to help combat marine pollution especially by oil . |
| 18 | During President Havel 's visit to Moscow on Feb. 26-27 [ see p. 37256 ] , an agreement was signed providing for the departure of all 73,500 Soviet forces from Czechoslovakia by July 1991 . |
| 19 | At the Consumer Congress conference held in July 1988 a resolution was passed calling for a Transport ( Scotland ) Bill732 , an enforceable code of good practice for the operation and provision of public transport . |
| 20 | In Stuttgart in 1983 the so-called Stuttgart Mandate was issued calling for a brake upon agricultural expenditure . |