Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |
| 2 | Although I came third out of fifty folk competing for established status by examination , it was no good , only one candidate was accepted . |
| 3 | For instance , annual sales forecasting for a manufacturing activity undertaking a wide variety of large complex engineering work on a unit and small batch basis may be carried out using a combination of queuing , scheduling and inventory based methods . |
| 4 | I was under an immense amount of pressure at work , running my own company with 100 people working for me and it all went to my head . |
| 5 | He arrives in Massillon , Ohio , to discover the entire town of 30,000 people preparing for the big football game the next day . |
| 6 | I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise . |
| 7 | It 's a story of ordinary people fighting for survival and justice ; that the immigration laws never take a crude , direct beating only increases this novel 's emotive power . |
| 8 | For church leaders community leaders and ordinary people working for peace in Ireland thank you God . |
| 9 | ‘ I heard glass breaking and saw three people heading for the door , ’ said 37-year-old Dean , a modern art lover . |
| 10 | Shortages have become a way of life here , to find these people queueing for staple products shows just how desperate the situation has become . |
| 11 | With all these people working for the success of the Festival , the rest is up to you ! |
| 12 | He was a little surprised when she said no and even more so when she told him that he was wasting the doctor 's time — there were sick people waiting for these beds . |
| 13 | The prices that different social groups are able to afford for land can be seen as an equivalent to natural species competing for space . |
| 14 | Obviously , the fewer carp competing for the available food the better the chance of reaching a worthwhile size . |
| 15 | where they 're at one and two thousand people working for them , I ca n't see that ever coming back , you know like the ? |
| 16 | We had always known that there were many people looking for a historic building to restore but had not realized the extent , which was very encouraging . |
| 17 | Nowadays , there are so many people applying for college research fellowships that if one of the candidate 's referees says that he does not know him , that is the end of his chances . |
| 18 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 19 | ‘ I saw babies flung from windows … burning people jumping for their lives ’ |
| 20 | However , reports on May 22 indicated that the strike was only patchily supported , with as few as 1,500 people gathering for a rally outside the Supreme Soviet building . |
| 21 | ‘ We have 1,500 people working for us in this Opera House , and everybody is talking about the ghost . |
| 22 | Seventy people working for Penrod Drilling Company were rescued by helicopter from a gas drilling rig in the North Sea yesterday after a leak on a platform near by . |
| 23 | There were 752,422 people waiting for in-patient treatment in March 1979 and 692,946 in March 1991 — a drop of 8 per cent . |
| 24 | Alison Rose to write memorandum to all staff asking for suggestions for workshops . |
| 25 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 26 | There are currently more than 7,000 people working for Savacentre and , with the opening of two new stores , this will increase to more than 8,500 . |
| 27 | The guy was taking on ten people at o he he had ten people working for him in one day . |
| 28 | I had about ten staff working for me at that time , all girls and women , supervised by the Senior Clerkess , Emily Lightbody . |
| 29 | A failure to adapt to this situation will result in more newly qualified staff leaving for other types of work or training when a period of work experience would have been valuable . |
| 30 | Any problems she has encountered have not been because of her gender , but because she has had older people working for her . |