Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do not suppose , however , that you will be applying for the position so I shall wait for Alain to send a few people here for me to see . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The whole country will be looking for the result and most of them will be hoping the underdogs do well . |
| 3 | We will be looking for the team that shows most strength in depth , across a range of ages , and both sexes . |
| 4 | At a time when many middle-class voters would be looking for the party that would best defend them from Labour , this Conservative strength would be of vital importance . |
| 5 | Here , anything that threatens the superego tends to be destructive ; and we can readily see that the externalization of conflict , although defensive for the ego , may be damaging for the culture because the effect of the externalization is to make the culture the locus of the conflict . |
| 6 | I will be staying for the weekend and going back on the train on Sunday night . |
| 7 | I will be voting for the motion and I will be voting against the amendment . |
| 8 | It was safe to assume , he said , that no more than a dozen MPs knew whether they should be reaching for the champagne or the shotgun when the Government announced last month that the business rate was to be set at 36p in the pound last month . |
| 9 | They often claim to be working for the council and sometimes have ‘ road maintenance ’ painted on the side of their lorries . |