Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 2 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 3 | Julian whose home is at Seamer , near Scarborough is currently the assistant cruise director in the Caribbean and is returning home for the presentation ceremony next month . |
| 4 | He now firmly refutes suggestions that he is unhappy with the Yorkshire set-up and is looking around for a move to another county . |
| 5 | Also , the system makes clear that the designer is acting strictly for the client . |
| 6 | Long journey : Nigel Lupton , 32 , of Raby Road in Hartlepool , is training hard for a 900-mile cycle ride from Land 's End to John O'Groat 's next month . |
| 7 | Yet , at the end of a week of alternating euphoria and gloom , the sober verdict so far must be that the military side of this war is going well for the allies . |
| 8 | He must , if he is going away for the winter , turn off the water and empty the boiler . |
| 9 | In the West End there seems at the moment a tendency to rely too much on the goodwill of actors which is often accompanied by a failure to maintain a true interest in what is going on for the actor . |
| 10 | ‘ The only problem is , my car is going in for a service , so maybe you could do me a favour and give me a lift there ? |
| 11 | And the Isle of Ely college is going out for a meal , so that wo n't be back , so he ca n't have that one , so we have n't got one ! |
| 12 | And , by the way , the reason I have to go is because Joanna is going out for the day with Ian Woodall . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We only wanted athletes of distinction and no one is going along for the trip , ’ Murray said . |
| 14 | While his clients have included dealers and museums , among them the British Museum , Patrick de Bayser says he is aiming mainly for a clientèle of private collectors . |
| 15 | The group is calling instead for an extension of the environmentally-sensitive areas ( ESA ) scheme , which compensates farmers for conserving selected sites of environmental importance , and for a move towards lower-input farming throughout the countryside , with the associated benefits of reduced fertilizer and pesticide use . |
| 16 | The wife 's brother is coming up for the festivities . ’ |
| 17 | He is coming over for a tour which culminates in the Edinburgh Festival , and he will be promoting both this and his third Easy Rawlins tale . |
| 18 | In short answers unless it is crying out for a diagram do n't bother because you 'll spend five minutes drawing the diagram , labelling it , explaining what D P and D S means and it just wo n't work it definition , application , measurement problems , contention , |
| 19 | Does he agree with the Prime Minister who told me in a letter this week that even that does not justify a special economic initiative or does he agree with local industry which is crying out for a partnership with Government to take Britain out of recession ? |
| 20 | Birmingham is crying out for a venue for mid-size bands . ’ |
| 21 | This kick is especially useful when a fighter has been knocked to the ground and his opponent is closing in for the kill , although in training it is learned from a standing position . |
| 22 | East Stand ) Neither of them are now at leeds , one is playing in the USA and the other is dossing around for a year ( so he says ) before trying to get in with a lower division club . |
| 23 | A dream trip to Spain for 6 deprived schoolchildren from Gloucestershire , a year in the planning , is fading fast for the organisers at Cam House Special school at Dursley . |
| 24 | Shadow community care minister David Hinchliffe is campaigning vigorously for a change in the law . |
| 25 | John Thorn , who makes red boxes for ministers , is standing by for a rash of orders . |
| 26 | There are also stressed forms , / / and / / , used when the word is emphasised or used by itself when the speaker is casting about for a substantive . |
| 27 | When a considerable proportion of the industry is working competitively for the market , the inducement to employees and employers to introduce and operate incentive schemes will be greatly strengthened . |
| 28 | The sporty 1.5-litre twin-cam coupe , known on the home market as the Cynos , is gunning straight for the Honda CRX and Nissan NX coupe — but not in the UK , because exports to this country are n't planned . |