Example sentences of "the [noun pl] were [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the regulators were looking for an infusion of capital from outside the banking industry . |
| 2 | There was pressure from the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , for Mr Smith to declare firmly which way the Labour Party would be voting when the bill came up for its third reading , which many of the rebels were targeting for a full-scale revolt . |
| 3 | The organisers were looking for a nurse who could show how her work — both before and after the changes brought in with the New Contract — had helped her patients . |
| 4 | It is partly that the teachers were asking for a depth of cataloguing , a level of retrieval , that is very expensive . |
| 5 | Remember this — most of the players were regular first team players , so , exxcluding the very first transfers , all the players were playing for the 2nd Div champions , or a top 4 team in the country . |
| 6 | The demonstrators were calling for the resumption of the National Conference , suspended by the government in January , which had been set up by more than 130 political parties to review and undertake reform on Zaire 's one-party political system . |
| 7 | The police were looking for a Pat and Jim , said Nicky , and here was Pat admitting that he and his friend Jim were in the general area of the crime at roughly the time it was committed . |
| 8 | He said this knowing that the architects were designing for a larger site quite unaware that only a portion had been authorized . |
| 9 | The students were calling for the restoration of school buildings damaged during the 1976 earthquake in Guatemala and a subsequent tremor in May 1988 . |
| 10 | The political repercussions of the events were devastating for the Labour Party . |