Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] for [noun] " 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 | GPs have cottoned on to it and are clamouring for beds . |
| 4 | They are competing for plum roles and staking their claim to be the No 1 box office attraction . |
| 5 | East European countries are thus competing for the best western companies just as western companies are competing for contracts . |
| 6 | Schools throughout Langbaurgh are competing for Telethon 's dustbin derby by collecting plastic bags for recycling . |
| 7 | This not merely makes direct comparison difficult , but it may also mean that such comparisons would be of questionable value given that they would not relate to the actual situation in which traditional and non-traditional students are competing for places , and in which their work and achievement can be meaningfully compared . |
| 8 | Of course , in er mammals wha you could say what was happening in mammals is that males are competing for access to uteruses . |
| 9 | We 're not only catering for Harlow people we are catering for people outside which is bringing money into Harlow helping the finance of Harlow and I think we are just progressing with the times . |
| 10 | ‘ I think it will be harder because Plymouth will work their socks off they are struggling for points and will be totally committed to getting a result . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ipswich are struggling for confidence after a flying start to the season … |
| 13 | We can not afford to let the Labour Party go on unopposed , cos I feel that the Conservatives are struggling for candidates , in fact I know they are . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The president and the parliament are struggling for power , but both have said that individual savers will be compensated for the ravages of inflation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is a pleasure for the coach to have two players as good as they are challenging for positions . |
| 19 | Life is complex when partners are bidding for marriage and family life as well as for themselves . |
| 20 | The geological structures of the South China Sea ( and the Yellow Sea ) offer the potential of massive oil resources of anything between 2 and 20 billion tonnes and at least thirty companies are bidding for blocks . |
| 21 | This may be true for some , but they are bidding for Palatine ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | but they are opening for women now . |
| 24 | COMMERCIAL rose growers are praying for rain so they can start getting bare-root plants out of the ground and away to customers . |
| 25 | IN this season of New Year forecasts — which mostly come unstuck — they are praying for rain in 1993 in Stowmarket , Suffolk . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Moore does not suggest that employers are wholly blinkered : it might be , for example , that employers are finding increased educational and job opportunities have meant a less able body of pupils are applying for apprenticeships . |
| 28 | If you are applying for compensation for damage , please keep the damaged article , and the packaging , as we may need to see them later . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | forms and are particularly useful when you are applying for jobs ‘ on spec. ’ as you can get all the relevant information on one neat form which looks efficient and will not overwhelm the recipient . |