Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the loyalist prisoners were campaigning for segregation from republicans ( a campaign which involved the tactic so loudly condemned when used by republicans : the hunger strike ) , DUP spokesmen were conspicuously more active than the Officials in the promotion of the prisoners , case . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you then suggest to the management team that , although the administrative assistants were arguing for party with the statistical clerks , reference should be made to similar groups in the private sector ? ’ |
| 3 | H is book was just the message that the English liberals were waiting for , now that they were disillusioned by Robespierre , frightened by Pitt 's attempts to repress ‘ sedition ’ , yet still unwilling to support the war with France . |
| 4 | The High Elves were fighting for their homeland and the Everqueen . |
| 5 | Ari Vatanen has come second and Colin McRae sixth … a good performance … but the British fans were hoping for more as Tim Russon now reports |
| 6 | The Vice Chancellors are looking for scholarships to meet these fees , and money for those scholarships may come from government , industry , benefactors or private individuals . |
| 7 | The anthropometric measures were missing for 11 women . |
| 8 | Labour say they would increase policing levels still further , and the Liberal Democrats are calling for new crime prevention programmes . |
| 9 | Although Bosnia has teetered on the brink of war for months , the intensity and scope of the weekend fighting indicated that the three communities are preparing for the worst . |
| 10 | The results of the clarification request analysis summarized in Table 4.3 show that although the younger children are asking for more straightforward requests for repetition than the other age groups ( perhaps because they do not attend as well as the other subjects ) , there are no significant differences in the other categories . |
| 11 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 12 | The All Blacks are searching for perfection on the pitch and the physical strength and skill of their forwards leaves you with the sense that they are not far from attaining that dream . |
| 13 | All the same she was mortified to discover on returning much later to the apartment that the detested clothes were waiting for her in her room . |
| 14 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 15 | It 's not until the front tyres are struggling for adhesion , and screaming in anguish as the nose slithers round , that the Dodge 's steering imparts any sensation of what 's happening down at road level . |
| 16 | The same forces were calling for freedom and democracy . |
| 17 | The waste-to-energy companies are pressing for financial support to allow them to take advantage of new waste management regulations due to come into force next year . |
| 18 | The green consumers are heading for a confrontation with the smoking civil libertarians . ’ |
| 19 | By the 1830's the richer proprietors were pressing for the alienation of the commons . |
| 20 | At the Tower , on that distant autumn day , the young men were preparing for war . |
| 21 | There is a cartoon of him jumping , with huge boots on , into the pool where Smith and the African leaders are fishing for the elusive salmon ‘ Settlement ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 24 | At first , early in 1950 , he feared that the two countries were heading for a " complete showdown " over the world 's economic problems . |
| 25 | Harmonization proved impossible : the two Services were looking for two quite different aircraft . |
| 26 | A religious war is often said to be very bitter because the two sides are fighting for something that they both feel is very important . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Instinctively the two men were looking for faces that they knew — Mary McCulloch and her friends , big Mary as tall as a man , red-haired Flora . |
| 29 | The two men were waiting for Gesner , the production manager , and the two members of the Gemeinderat who were on the theatre committee . |
| 30 | A rise in numbers would by itself help to explain why the upper classes were looking for new and wider choice of occupation ; it does not go far towards explaining the popularity of Cîteaux . |