Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This regulation was exploited by over 1,000 pro-Indian individuals and organizations each applying for the opportunity to participate in the hearings and thereby assist Harper in delaying a vote . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , supply-side doctrine provided a theoretical underpinning for the main thrust of his economic strategy . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the third sentence sends us reeling back to square one in terms of methodological confusion : we are now told that just because Keynes had tried to provide a theoretical underpinning for the concept of involuntary unemployment does not , ipso facto , oblige subsequent theorists to ‘ 'explain ’ the theoretical constructs of our predecessors ' . |
| 4 | 2 Going for the interview |
| 5 | The decision was followed by an accord between the government and allied forces on May 22 providing for the withdrawal of all Iraqi military personnel from Dahuk and the restoration of essential services by non-combat allied troops . |
| 6 | She 'd never retire ; but she could fix up the house , put in some extra loos and bathrooms , have the kitchen completely refitted — get her business on a sound footing for the first time in her life . |
| 7 | More simply , this striving for the clear assertion of ‘ fundamentals ’ is an age-old and pandemic aspect of humanity : the striving for certainty and predictability . |
| 8 | Woolly monkeys and howlers , spider monkeys and capuchins , tamarins and marmosets scramble around one another reaching for the fruit . |
| 9 | This jockeying for the truth may be fine for doctors engaged in expensive research , but where exactly does it leave the rest of us , constantly struggling to keep up with the latest medical thinking and changing our diets accordingly . |
| 10 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 11 | Was there anybody in here who plays a recorder and has some knowledge already of music and would be interested trying for the violin ? |
| 12 | Contrary to popular belief , Soviet economic sources provided rich picking for the researcher , as long as the right subject was chosen . |
| 13 | Got squashed in the photo files by Brendon Fitzgerald , broke the photocopier , got lost looking for the canteen , uncovered the truth about IPC tea , became Dele Fadele 's personal typewriter ribbon engineer ( have been ever since ) , discovered House music had not yet reached Waterloo , realised that guitars really are the work of the devil , mended the then extremely sad NME stereo ( ie , plugged it in ) and was quickly appointed technical supervisor to anything mechanical ( plugs , electrical toothbrushes ) , invented dance music , formed Subbuteo league with James Brown and Simon Dudfield which eventually became fixed beyond all belief , tried to blag a Misty In Roots CD and failed . |
| 14 | There 's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we 've put our best designers to work on our range . |
| 15 | The second is that the CBD stricture is always distal allowing for the use of comparatively short ( 34 mm ) mesh stents . |
| 16 | Though phrasing is sympathetic , and Masur allows a natural easing for the third theme in the first movement , this is not among warmer readings of this much recorded work . |
| 17 | It serves to remind us that the collapse of the old political certitudes in Eastern Europe and the awakening of new political alternatives to market capitalism are precisely of a piece with the erasure of the old artistic ‘ avant-garde ’ and the ceaseless searching for the ‘ new ’ . |
| 18 | Six United Kingdom aid agencies issued an urgent appeal on Sept. 21 calling for the ceiling of Iraqi oil exports to be raised to US$2,500 million , claiming that the country 's food and medical situation was " near collapse " . |
| 19 | The four turkey rearers consisted of one who was rearing 6,000 from day old to six weeks of age , and three providing for the Christmas trade , with numbers between 50 and 100 ; two of these have direct sales . |
| 20 | Utility player Neil Cox , defender Ugo Ehiogu , goalkeeper Mark Bosnich and the German duo of Mattias Breitkreutz and Stephan Benlich are all itching for the chance to make their mark . |
| 21 | There have to be big spending cuts and bigger interest rate cuts , the latter compensating for the former . |
| 22 | When they came near the princess 's tower they saw a great number of people , all walking in the meadows , all searching for the princess 's lost keys . |
| 23 | In education no single customer is always right , people are n't all looking for the same things . |
| 24 | All waiting for the dust to settle . ’ |
| 25 | SIX MONTHS ago , we were all waiting for The Stone Roses to crossover into the US charts — that was the talk . |
| 26 | SIX MONTHS ago , we were all waiting for The Stone Roses to crossover into the US charts — that was the talk . |
| 27 | Because admitting your relationship is foundering is to acknowledge that your home , your security , your way of life and your dreams of the future are all heading for the rocks . |
| 28 | it was rough going for the tailwheel , and there was a sharp crack aft . |
| 29 | Commentators noted the contrast between Li Peng 's line and remarks by Jiang Zemin and Yang Shangkun to the Singapore Premier , Lee Kuan Yew , on Oct. 18 calling for the reforms to be speeded up . |
| 30 | A letter by 200 US members of Congress on Sept. 5 calling for the Bush administration to abandon hopes for a moderate leadership in Iran and instead to recognize the country 's resistance groups , was condemned by the Majlis Speaker , Ayatollah Mehdi Karrubi , who said that the US administration would " take the wish of overthrowing the Islamic Republic to their graves " . |