Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As many as 300,000 people , many of them farming families who have flooded in from the villages , are clamouring for survival . |
| 2 | Faced with such evidence , supermarkets are clamouring for information to label their goods ’ environmentally sound ’ , and there is an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling for a ’ chlorine free ’ paper industry ( Sweden already makes 95% of its soft paper without the aid of chlorine ) . |
| 3 | They are competing for plum roles and staking their claim to be the No 1 box office attraction . |
| 4 | Of course , in er mammals wha you could say what was happening in mammals is that males are competing for access to uteruses . |
| 5 | It 's not until the front tyres are struggling for adhesion , and screaming in anguish as the nose slithers round , that the Dodge 's steering imparts any sensation of what 's happening down at road level . |
| 6 | Ipswich are struggling for confidence after a flying start to the season … |
| 7 | The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form . |
| 8 | The president and the parliament are struggling for power , but both have said that individual savers will be compensated for the ravages of inflation . |
| 9 | More specifically , the prospecls for revolution can be deduced from the mode of production within a particular social formation ( society ) and the class forces that are struggling for power . |
| 10 | He is very pleased with the ‘ good meaty topics ’ departments have been suggesting for scrutiny this year . |
| 11 | Well , there are millions of people who are missing from electoral registers , who are people who are entitled to be registered and the problem is probably the greatest among those who are known as attainers and are qualifying for registration at eighteen for the first time in their lives , the numbers of attainers er qualifying has reduced percentage wise , year by year , especially since the introduction of the poll tax and has not been rectified by the measures that remove the poll tax . |
| 12 | Life is complex when partners are bidding for marriage and family life as well as for themselves . |
| 13 | President we should be under no illusion that this reactionary government will continue to attack local government to attack local to attack local government our public services are at the mercy of the fast-buck merchants within the private contractors who are bidding for council services . |
| 14 | COMMERCIAL rose growers are praying for rain so they can start getting bare-root plants out of the ground and away to customers . |
| 15 | IN this season of New Year forecasts — which mostly come unstuck — they are praying for rain in 1993 in Stowmarket , Suffolk . |
| 16 | ISF officials are selecting researchers on the basis of the quality and quantity of their published output ( see Nature 362 , 95 ; 1993 ) , although only a portion of the 35,000 who are eligible are applying for money to keep their laboratories going . |
| 17 | If you are applying for compensation for damage , please keep the damaged article , and the packaging , as we may need to see them later . |
| 18 | People who are applying for executive and management positions should most definitely do everything they can to make themselves fully conversant with the company , its product and its trading position . |
| 19 | If you are applying for planning permission yourself , include a letter stating the planning merits of your proposal and also any personal circumstances you think are relevant — for example , that you are building an extension for an elderly relative . |
| 20 | He says we are pressing for compensation for more of these men . |
| 21 | If the markets are pressing for sterling 's entry into the ERM , a negative message could invite a brutal reaction . |
| 22 | " I suppose he could have lent money to Ingard , and been pressing for payment . " |
| 23 | The NPKTF , which had taken definitive form in 1902 , had been pressing for reconciliation within the Edinburgh branch , and was to play a strongly supporting role in 1910 . |
| 24 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 25 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 26 | Local residents have been pressing for action to curb the speed and behaviour of some drivers . |
| 27 | we , also , are dying for life . |
| 28 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 29 | The Moslems , supporters of the Democratic Action Party ( based in Bosnia-Hercegovina ) , were protesting at what they claimed to be repression of the rights of Moslems in the Sanjak and Serbian efforts to drive them out ( Sanjak Moslem militants had been agitating for autonomy and closer links with Bosnia-Hercegovina , where Moslems were the largest national group ) . |
| 30 | On the other side of the world another Banbury team are driving for victory in the world rally championship … |