Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Bowers , an agricultural economist at Leeds University , estimates that they will have to pay double the true ‘ conservation value ’ to protect sites — the rest goes on compensating for lost grants and agricultural subsidies of various kinds . |
| 2 | The general reconnaissance raid , mounted to find out what enemy defences if any stood along a stretch of coast , developed into the assault pilotage surveys of 1943 and 1944 , secretly landing for specific intelligence of beach conditions and defences . |
| 3 | This seems to indicate a deep , free , and intensive time of prayer , when the Spirit takes over and controls and leads the prayers , and one can go on praying for several hours without being aware of the passage of time . |
| 4 | They may go on appearing for twenty-four hours until eventually he has given birth to a thousand or more babies . |
| 5 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 6 | The sacrifice comes in dying for that valued person or thing . |
| 7 | One possible reason for the lack of motivation within her class could be attributed to tasks not being sufficiently challenging for some pupils , whilst being beyond the intellectual grasp of others . |
| 8 | It is a surprising place to find the main indoor athletics stadium in Britain , housing a 200 metre indoor synthetic track and , for the biggest events , enough seating for 5000 people , in one of its great hangars . |
| 9 | AMARC 's current research group is constantly looking for specific applications within the world of medicine which would benefit from automation . |
| 10 | Despite these finds , competition in the modelling business gets tougher every year , and agencies are constantly looking for new talent . |
| 11 | As well as spending a great deal of time servicing existing customers we are constantly looking for new opportunities in developing markets around the world . |
| 12 | They are constantly looking for these changes , especially in situations which have previously been difficult . |
| 13 | It 's important to him that everyone knows he is the champion , that he is better than anyone else and not necessarily looking for easy pay days . |
| 14 | We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service . |
| 15 | So we 're only looking for fourteen businesses on each assignment . |
| 16 | This means not only looking for good practice in the present but also looking for indicators for the future . |
| 17 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 18 | We are very big and therefore we 're only looking for big business , is that , is that fair comment ? |
| 19 | When he invited farmers through the Darlington and Stockton Times to consider growing mushrooms as a way of diversifying he received well over 100 calls although he was only looking for ten . |
| 20 | As the managing director of a recently formed company with , to date , only one outlet , I was quite naturally looking for any help I could get , advisory or financially or both . |
| 21 | It was especially looking for new business in Osaka . |
| 22 | The overall effect was extremely damaging for many companies in the cities and elsewhere : domestic demand was reduced ; the costs of borrowing rose ; public-sector contracts diminished ; exports became much more expensive . |
| 23 | I mean if the evaluation suggests that something or other needs changing , then you want people to be already so interested in the evaluation and perhaps looking for useful things to come out of it , that they are already half committed to the changes . |
| 24 | Searching Ellie 's face , perhaps looking for some resemblance , she gave a funny little sigh . |
| 25 | We roamed the streets together looking for possible future providers of parchment and , taking advantage of the good weather , rode north to Oxford to the parchment-sellers along Holywell and Broad Street as well as the little shops on the Turl near Exeter College . |
| 26 | In the New Testament Jesus uses two images to convey God 's extravagant concern for the world : one is the shepherd who risks the rest of the flock in order to go searching for the lost sheep ; the other is the woman who turns a house upside down looking for lost coins . |
| 27 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 28 | She 's only going for one class . |
| 29 | I thought bloody hell Lynn you 're only waiting for fifty P , you know ? |
| 30 | She did not seem at a loss , only waiting for some boring and pointless noise to end . |