Example sentences of "are [v-ing] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 2 | Some of the finest acrobats in the world are limbering up for a show in the Big Top in Cheltenham . |
| 3 | ‘ We are pressing hard for a meeting between BAe 's finance director and our lead investor as we are aware that time is slipping by , ’ said Mr Hooke . |
| 4 | Can any of you who are meeting up for the spurs game do me a favour , please ? |
| 5 | Work is well on , but they are looking particularly for an Aldis gun sight for the project . |
| 6 | This is partly to get higher wages , but it is really so because jobs are run-of-the-mill and they are looking simply for a change of venue , a new setting , and new faces . |
| 7 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 8 | Often the local press are looking more for a photo opportunity than a story . |
| 9 | we a we are going , we are going out for a meal on Saturday night i er , in , with or without , we 're going out , I 've er we want to go to the when we went with . |
| 10 | The move will be seen as a further step towards a possible post-election deal between Labour and the Liberal Democrats , who are holding out for a commitment to PR for the Commons as a pre-condition of backing a minority government . |
| 11 | FERRARI the fast fading Grand Prix giants , are revving up for a revival … with British know-how . |
| 12 | SISTERS Joyce Anderson and Jean Tebble are revving up for the start of one of the biggest fund-raising drives to be organised on Merseyside . |
| 13 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 14 | They have the highest income-tax and VAT rates , the harshest drinking laws , the dreariest bars , the dullest restaurants and television that makes you feel as if you are warming up for a coma . |
| 15 | I should have thought that hon. Members would have got behind the work of the regulators , who are standing up for the interests of the customer . |
| 16 | At Westons cidermill in Much Marcle , Herefordshire three hundred revellers are setting off for the apple orchards.They 're following in the footsteps of their pagan ancestors in the hopes of ensuring a bumper harvest . |
| 17 | When you come to retirement age , whilst not suggesting that you are past it , you are planning ahead for the time where you may not be quite as capable as were . |