Example sentences of "to be [v-ing] [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 Iago seems to be acting wholly for the others ' good , since , as he challenges us to deny , ‘ this advice I give is free and honest .
2 After the fourth session of the Hague peace conference on Sept. 26 , attended by the Foreign Ministers of all the republics , Lord Carrington said that the ceasefire seemed to be holding sufficiently for the conference to carry on and to accelerate its work .
3 She goes to boarding school in Sanderstown , but , ’ with a smile , ‘ always seems to be coming home for the holidays .
4 I hope this excluded ‘ young ’ Winston Churchill who seems to be doing more for the miners than the opposition parties put together .
5 Advance orders are said to be pouring in for the LP Portrait and single Blue Days .
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