Example sentences of "to be [v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had always claimed to be acting for the best ; not selfishly , but for all men , as the great sage Confucius had said a ruler should act . |
| 2 | It is vital , however , that they are able to compete on equal terms , and to achieve this there will need to be funding for the extra costs of clinical research . |
| 3 | Both Virgin and Thorn EMI are thought to be vying for the lucrative Jobete in Detroit , which controls the publishing rights to a catalogue of 15,000 Motown titles . |
| 4 | So , when an Ikhwan ( widely understood to be fronting for the Amiri secretary ) proposed to make a grant to a Tibbu , ‘ all Zuwaya ’ , including at least some Awlad Amira , protested . |
| 5 | In negotiating this or that pay increase , they must be supposed to be settling for the best terms they can get in all the circumstances of the negotiation . |
| 6 | These authors find empirical support to be lacking for the basic postulates of the theory which Levy and Reid derived from their original observations . |
| 7 | Although there is some truth in this relative deprivation argument , it is equally important to note that the pains of imprisonment are mitigated by pleasant recollections : to be doing ‘ a lot of bird ’ without having lived well seems far more futile and absurd that to be paying for the rich fruits that crime has already brought . |
| 8 | He hopes to be challenging for the first team by Christmas . |
| 9 | His eyes are a little protuberant , and his lips are set in a faint smile , so that as he leans forward against the wheel , gazing straight ahead through the windscreen , he seems to be waiting for the green light with eagerness . |
| 10 | A Supreme Court judge , Fabiola Borrero , from the western city of Cali , was shot dead on Sept. 22 by gunmen believed to be working for the Cali drug cartel . |
| 11 | At a recent conference of educational psychologists in Scotland I was foolish enough ( again ) to be arguing for the practical importance of such grand-sounding notions as idealism and commitment . |