Example sentences of "the [noun pl] be [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers are looking for a transmissible agent and the search is urgent . |
| 2 | Malcolm Crosby is fighting hard to keep his job at Sunderland , even though the directors are searching for a replacement . |
| 3 | There was pressure from the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , for Mr Smith to declare firmly which way the Labour Party would be voting when the bill came up for its third reading , which many of the rebels were targeting for a full-scale revolt . |
| 4 | The organisers were looking for a nurse who could show how her work — both before and after the changes brought in with the New Contract — had helped her patients . |
| 5 | The Nuffield Foundation ( which paid for the feasibility study ) has given £30 000 and the trustees are advertising for a project director this week . |
| 6 | It is partly that the teachers were asking for a depth of cataloguing , a level of retrieval , that is very expensive . |
| 7 | ‘ No , do n't tell me the police are looking for a getaway sleigh . |
| 8 | The police were looking for a Pat and Jim , said Nicky , and here was Pat admitting that he and his friend Jim were in the general area of the crime at roughly the time it was committed . |
| 9 | He said this knowing that the architects were designing for a larger site quite unaware that only a portion had been authorized . |