Example sentences of "were [v-ing] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Literary Lionisers , having commanded their maids and valets , if they had them , to unpack , or if they had not , scurried through this tedious task themselves , were gathering for the first event of the week , the promenade around Dickens 's Broadstairs . |
| 2 | LOOKING BACK , it s now possible to see that well before the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union the storm clouds were gathering for the nuclear dream . |
| 3 | With its panoramic views over the River Thames at Docklands , it is a delightful venue for CCG catering manager Tracey Evans and head chef Steve Raven , who until the recent opening of the restaurant were catering for the 200 Reuters staff from a portacabin complex . |
| 4 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 5 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 6 | Police were searching for the missing bicycle , but the announcer said nothing about the missing hair . |
| 7 | The two sides were vying for the third spot behind Wakefield and Orrell in the Northern Division allocation for the national finals to be played at Bath on April 26 . |
| 8 | ‘ My name 's Stirling , ’ he said , almost as though we were meeting for the first time outside his Club in London . |
| 9 | Red Rum and Desert Orchid were meeting for the first time . |
| 10 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 11 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 12 | Moreover he knew that Harwell were looking for the crucial neutron spectrum which , surely , would clinch everything . |
| 13 | We were looking for the reflective eyes of a fox . |
| 14 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 15 | Two Kirkwall solicitors were acting for the four families . |
| 16 | 12 Grace Leybourne buttressed such arguments in Education and the Birth Rate by demonstrating that the middle classes and the intelligent were paying for the high costs of education by family limitation at the dysgenic expense of the national interest . |
| 17 | However I managed to find Mr Jaggers ' office , noticing that other people were waiting for the great man too . |
| 18 | ‘ You were waiting for the right person . ’ |
| 19 | It is hardly surprising that health authorities and hospital managers were calling for the immediate introduction of capitation funding for fundholders as a means of stemming losses from their budgets . |
| 20 | But he certainly was n't the man to have in the driving seat on the union side when both management and workers were striving for the sheer survival of the company , and needed to work together if they were to pull through . |
| 21 | Fakrid 's heavy eyelids were closing for the last time . |
| 22 | The political repercussions of the events were devastating for the Labour Party . |
| 23 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
| 24 | More than 500,000 people were voting for the first time . |
| 25 | Michelle , Valerie and June were jumping for the first time , but Kay had two charity parachute jumps under her belt already . |
| 26 | I felt happy to know honourable people who were fighting for the common good , that is to say , for justice ’ ( Neruda : 1974 , p. 435 ) . |
| 27 | It could be argued that the proposed phonemes and ( if one were arguing for the one-phoneme analysis ) have distributions similar to other consonants , while other combinations of plosive plus fricative do not . |
| 28 | The wisdom of the Northern Ireland Branch of introducing a Grade 4B a few years ago , is paying off now , when this grade attracted an entry of 21 bands , some of which were playing for the first time . |
| 29 | As they rode out of the low narrow gate , their knees banging , their heads ducked , the other monks were mustering for the Holy Office of Vespers . |
| 30 | just under one in five CASE students in employment were working for the employing organisation associated with their CASE award ; |