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 | AMARC 's current research group is constantly looking for specific applications within the world of medicine which would benefit from automation . |
| 4 | Despite these finds , competition in the modelling business gets tougher every year , and agencies are constantly looking for new talent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This means not only looking for good practice in the present but also looking for indicators for the future . |
| 9 | We are very big and therefore we 're only looking for big business , is that , is that fair comment ? |
| 10 | It was especially looking for new business in Osaka . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is why this account will follow Guillaume ( 1990 : 99 ) in postulating that the support of the infinitive is a " generalized person " not yet defined explicitly as either first , second or third , nor even necessarily calling for ordinal definition ( cf. ( 10 ) above ) . |
| 15 | The money will also be used to provide better signposting for existing access points to the towpath . |
| 16 | ‘ The council really needs to consider fully the effect this would have upon the ratepayers , particularly if other groups come along asking for similar dispensation , ’ the DoE spokesperson also explained . |
| 17 | Who is constantly arguing for proper scientific evaluation of all the interventions which have become a matter of habit with many midwives and obstetricians , like artificial membrane rupture ? |
| 18 | 2 clubs that were not only fighting for European places , but are good enough to win the league , but we obviously need a few slip ups at Old trafford . |
| 19 | There was an acceptance here that the WEA was not necessarily educating for political and social action : its task was to create a better-informed citizen democracy , whether or not its students went on to join pressure groups or assume civic office . |
| 20 | Not being bound by statutory rules and political control it was better able to innovate — perhaps trailblazing for local authorities to take up when the experiment was seen to work . |
| 21 | The whole object of sex is to have unlike acting on unlike so as to make possible the production of unlike offspring , thus allowing for adaptive change , Darwin argues . |
| 22 | Foreign trade would cease to be a state monopoly , although the state would continue to " direct and control " it , and the state " recognizes the ownership of mixed enterprises " , thus allowing for joint ventures with foreign investors in the future . |
| 23 | The glycosidic angle , describing the orientation about the bond connecting the base to the sugar has been estimated by integrating intranucleotide cross peaks from NOESY data , such as that shown in Fig.3 a at a number of mixing times ( 50 , 100 , 200 , 300ms ) , thus allowing for different degrees of build-up of the through-space interaction as well as second-order spin diffusion effects . |
| 24 | All manufacturing units have been consolidated into United Distillers Production Inc. , thus allowing for significant rationalisation and productivity enhancement . |
| 25 | When they reached the railway station it was already plying for new hire and the sound of an engine gathering up steam could be heard . |
| 26 | The parish council was obliged to provide burial land and was now desperately looking for other sites . |
| 27 | We are certainly not looking for new customers . ’ |
| 28 | The examiner is not looking for technical perfection and certainly would not find it in many candidates ' answers to this question . |
| 29 | It is almost like a little grunt and occurs in sentences but not necessarily when one word is spoken on its own — another good reason why you should always speechread the sentence as a unit , not looking for individual words . |
| 30 | I am not looking for maximum performance or power . |