Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , only banks A to F can be accessed without some form of MIDI control , but with sixty possible selections that hardly leaves the user struggling for memory space . |
| 2 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 3 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 4 | Taking sub-system 1.7 for example , the lower order systems needed to provide full board catering for residents , and occasional meals for day-clients were considered , and the second-level model shown in Fig 11.7 was constructed . |
| 5 | Nigel Clough 's arrival at Liverpool , Wales ' World Cup prospects and his natural thirst for goals has left the Reds ' striker itching for action in a season which could turn out to be a memorable . |
| 6 | For a few minutes we watched a tree-creeper working his way up the trunk of a tree looking for grubs until Bill the dog , crashing through the undergrowth sniffing for smells , frightened him off . |
| 7 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
| 8 | Not only are primary schools in the neighbourhood competing for children but prep schools may also be attracting pupils out of the area too . |
| 9 | He clutched at a rail and held on , heart thumping , the blood pounding in his ears , his mind wailing for mercy . |
| 10 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 11 | ‘ People tend at first to treat you as if you 're a journalist looking for Guinness connections . ’ |
| 12 | His first act needs to be to get the corporate search people straight back into action looking for outsiders to run the AS/400 business — someone from Hewlett-Packard perhaps , the disk business , the chip business , the software and services business . |
| 13 | Sweater dressing for winter balls by Isaac Mizrahi. 10 . |
| 14 | A LAWYER acting for Mrs Winnie Mandela appealed yesterday for an end to press speculation about her marriage to Mr Nelson Mandela as further reports surfaced alleging links with yet another township murder . |
| 15 | The ghost associated with it remains a permanent threat to the living , as it wanders the earth with a stretched neck looking for companions . |
| 16 | Agency — Estate agent — Conflict of interest — Agent acting for plaintiff and vendor of adjacent property — Purchaser offering to buy both properties — Agent failing to inform plaintiff of purchaser 's agreement to buy adjacent property — Whether material information — Whether agent in breach of duty to plaintiff — Whether entitled to commission |
| 17 | It would be like finding yourself in the kitchen with Barbara Coleman when you would rather be with Oliver and James Cobalt searching for drugs . |
| 18 | Conference 2 : Case Study Writing for Lecturers |
| 19 | Looking for them was in effect looking for Adam Boteler , who alone had been marked and recognised ; and Adam had orders to remain out of sight in Castell Coch until the second attempt was ready to be launched . |
| 20 | In 1915 he learnt of a doctor 's practice going for sale at Collier 's Forge , near Stourbridge in the Midlands . |
| 21 | Apart from industry paying for pollution controls , he said , reorganisation of waste disposal would extend the polluter pays principle to ordinary waste disposal . |
| 22 | There is room for a couple : one here behind the luggage ( hunched like a cosmonaut hurtling into the unknown ) and another there beneath the bottom bunk ( blankets burying a crouched figure waiting for rebirth ) . |
| 23 | Bottle-necks were not restricted to the railways ; at the end of March twentyfive ships lay in Reval harbour waiting for berths . |
| 24 | An international exile for over two years he is poised for a late , late charge to try for a spectacular break into the Great Britain and Ireland side heading for Minneaoplis in August . |
| 25 | I sat in the restaurant car waiting for breakfast and peered eagerly through steamy windows at an obscure grey landscape , unwilling to miss any part of the new ground that I was covering . |
| 26 | That said , the crew of the Enterprise still gives value for money as the reluctant honour guard to a Klingon delegation suing for peace . |
| 27 | Manchester Square , where the Lytham Road route diverged from the Promenade , with a Standard car bound for Squires Gate and a blue car heading for St. Annes via Promenade . |
| 28 | A St. Annes car heading for Blackpool along the long straight of Lytham Road before the First World War : notice the absence of traffic ! |
| 29 | He established collotype printing for illustrations and created the nucleus of a bindery . |
| 30 | In addition high usage of wood for fuel is a major cause of deforestation accounting for 75% of 1983 energy consumption . |