Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 The charity still continues but as well as maintaining and providing extras for the school , grants are given for further education or books .
2 The accident records at these schools have been examined in considerable detail by the Departments of Highways and Education and the Police and four areas have been highlighted for further action and detailed investigation .
3 These are best for children from about four years onwards , although some are designed for younger children .
4 The remedies have been grouped for easier comparison and so do not appear alphabetically .
5 Books which describe this architectural level , and which are recommended for further reading , are Bell and Newell ( 1971 ) , Stone ( 1975 ) , Tanenbaum ( 1976 ) , and Foster ( 1976a ) .
6 Members are pressing for freer European access for the products of their petrochemical industries .
7 Members are pressing for freer European access for the products of their petrochemical industries .
8 Does he accept in particular that there is a problem involving students from Northern Ireland who have attended English universities and been recommended for further degrees and second awards , but are turned down because they are from Northern Ireland ?
9 As Westminster aide to the party leader , Mr Durkan has long been tipped for higher offices .
10 The intelligence test can be a useful source of evidence about individuals who are considered for lower level jobs .
11 A number of other studies have also shown that non-traditional students who have been carefully selected on the basis of criteria which relate to the ability to meet the demands of higher education , or have been prepared for higher education , have relatively high completion rates when compared with all students .
12 This work demonstrates that there are considerable grounds for optimism regarding the performance of students with non-standard entry qualifications who have been prepared for higher education through special Access Courses .
13 " I have been serving the Turks , and am looking for better employment .
14 People are looking for tastier beef and that comes from the Hereford cattle .
15 After re-uniting Tony Cooper with his Spitfire , the restorers now hope to start working on the wings and are looking for bigger premises to enable this work to take place .
16 Increasingly , employers are looking for higher levels of skills .
17 Particularly acute problems appear to be found in the area of raising seed-corn capital ( pre start-up capital , less than £250,000 , the riskiest type of venture capital ) and that venture funds are looking for shorter term returns ( BEQB 1990 ) .
18 THE Property Exchange , a new company publishing a national directory of people who want to swap homes rather than sell them ( if the properties have different values , one party pays the other the difference ) says that so far most people are looking for smaller homes .
19 ‘ Previously the large , prairie-style farms tended to go for big , American-style equipment , but the new , smaller units are looking for smaller new or used European-sized implements .
20 And today forensic teams have been searching for further clues to help catch the killer :
21 Erm it 's to erm reserve er for emergencies , obviously , I , I 'd use a building society or bank , to cover holidays and domestic needs , to set up hobby or retirement applications , so we 'd always say , leave a fair amount in the building society , and the only thing th advice I 'd give you is one , stick to the major societies , and secondly , if you 're looking for larger investments , use a postal account .
22 The MSDOS variant ( which is , numerically , at least , the most popular ) is called SMARTDRV , and is almost a necessity if you 're looking for faster hard disk performance .
23 If you 're looking for faster , purer isolation , you ought to be looking at the Nycomed range — as detailed in our brand new Separation Products literature .
24 Overseas visitors are still coming here but they 're staying for shorter periods and spending less money .
25 ‘ You 're playing for higher stakes ? ’
26 You would be totally unaffected by it , okay , now there is one way that you might think camp ons are quite strange , and that is , if you 've got a camp on on , right , and somebody 's engaged , but they 're engaged for longer than 75 seconds , you get a ring back , but you do n't get a successful ring back , you get a ring back of the same long , say 2 and a half seconds , it might ring engaged , okay , if the person 's still engaged .
27 In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists .
28 One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one .
29 For the coarser particles sieve screens are formed of plates or strong wire of stainless steel or brass , and finer wire meshes are used for smaller particles .
30 It seems that , once a certain level of competitiveness has been achieved , private capital markets can supply the resources that are needed for further growth .
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