Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Buid and Semai examples should also serve as a caution against theories about violence and aggression which treat them as typically involving a contest between two balanced opponents competing for access to a scarce resource . |
| 2 | The rock garden is dismantled , beds filled in , and borders are reduced to ragged strips struggling for survival along the boundary fence . |
| 3 | Only in Albania was the scenario of dynastic communism and vendetta carried on with more brutality and verve than in Romania , but at least there were two rival clans struggling for control of the Albanian Communist Party . |
| 4 | Other projects competing for company resources should be analysed in the same way and ranked according to the levels of pay-off for each . |
| 5 | Other projects competing for company resources should be analysed in the same way and ranked according to the levels of pay-off for each . |
| 6 | He governs , so far as he is able to , on borrowed time because none of the groups contending for power yet feels strong enough to make a grab for it . |
| 7 | The 1923 Scheme lowered the standards for grant eligibility ; the superficial area of houses qualifying for subsidy was also reduced , resulting in smaller houses , let at lower rents . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was the Dwarf merchants trading for fur , charcoal or mineral ore who were the first to deal with men on a regular basis . |
| 9 | FTA 1973 governs the control of mergers in the United Kingdom and applies to " mergers qualifying for investigation " . |
| 10 | The report suggests that the decision to set up hospital trusts in Scotland resulted either from ‘ deference ’ to the arguments of groups applying for trust status , or from ‘ blind determination to implement unpopular policy ’ . |
| 11 | The independent republics do not , for the most part , have firmly established systems of parties competing for office . |
| 12 | Restaurants qualifying for family-specialist status must also have children 's furniture , a children 's menu and a play corner or children 's lawn . |
| 13 | In York it was particularly hideous to have lorries and cars vying for space with bicycles and people in the narrow streets . |
| 14 | The smell of the peat , gurgle of water racing over boulders and chuckle of flocks of fieldfares searching for mountain ash berries are as characteristic as the scenery itself . |
| 15 | Fresh figures from the Commons library show that 348,000 people worked in manufacturing in December 1992 and there were 342,092 unemployed Scots looking for work in February 1993 . |
| 16 | They both go about with permanent scowls looking for trouble . ’ |
| 17 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 18 | Wards 14 and 15 still had guards waiting for tuberculosis cures . |
| 19 | The party announced its adherence to the Madrid Pact of Guinean and Spanish parties calling for democracy in Equatorial Guinea [ see p. 36923 ] . |
| 20 | This link also influences accounting for capital expenditure that is financed other than by borrowing . |
| 21 | Is not his solution of private consultants to be engaged by competitive schools asking for trouble , because it creates an automatic conflict of interest and renders their reports suspect by definition ? |
| 22 | He knew that at night , alone in his room , he should be crying , but no tears came ; that in itself was strange , for he 'd often cried about small things , such as seeing a fox with its leg in a trap , still alive , its eyes begging for release . |
| 23 | The knowledge that a general election was imminent saw all political parties jockeying for position during 1990 . |
| 24 | Next week we spell out what they mean for you as well as providing a full list of all the candidates standing for election . |
| 25 | Urban had earlier accused former StB agents of seeking to disrupt the elections by spreading false rumours and denunciations against candidates standing for election . |
| 26 | Five constituencies were the preserve of the country 's four recognized religious minorities — Zoroastrians , Jews , Assyrian Christians and Armenian Christians — which together had 21 candidates standing for election . |
| 27 | This traditionally financed the samba schools , which spend six months preparing for carnival . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the Liberals were undeniably out there in the country , and it would be electorally suicidal to have two smaller centrist parties fighting for leadership of the middle ground . |
| 29 | Scots preparing for conquest are a wonderful bunch , not much different I imagine from those bearded clansmen of the middle ages . |
| 30 | more and more voices screaming for Help |