Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tint the undercoat with whatever you are using for the final colour and you will get a good , even finish . |
| 2 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 3 | Sheffield Steelers are sweeping the opposition aside in their bid to gain league entry , while Trafford Metros , Medway Bears and Streatham Redskins are competing for the other vacancy . |
| 4 | At least six types of microfloppy , as the discs are called , of varying size and format are competing for the market . |
| 5 | Six countries — Thailand , India Pakistan , Cuba Italy and Belgium — are competing for the site of the $50 million research programme . |
| 6 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 7 | For any given program there is an optimum or efficient memory usage for an environment in which many programs are competing for the limited available real memory . |
| 8 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 9 | If the seller knows the number of companies who are competing for the order , their likely stances , the criteria used by the buying organisation when deciding between them , the degree of pressure on key members of the decision making unit , and any formula they might use for assessing price acceptability , an accurate assessment of the power balance should be possible . |
| 10 | I am allowing for the fact that , in a substantial number of cases , investigations could not be concluded , and many complaints were withdrawn . |
| 11 | Erm elsewhere in my statement I have indicated an appropriate provision of employment land which is related to the population size which we are suggesting for the new settlement . |
| 12 | Bello Bouba said that he was returning to join his " fellow countrymen who are struggling for the institution of a real democracy " . |
| 13 | I am applying for the post of … |
| 14 | Eighteen companies are bidding for the contract to remove the red star from the dome of Hungary 's Parliament , writes Michael Simmons . |
| 15 | Eighteen companies are bidding for the contract to remove the red star from the dome of Hungary 's Parliament , writes Michael Simmons . |
| 16 | MAGAZINES are bidding for the first photos of five-day-old Louis , son of Princess Stephanie of Monaco , right . |
| 17 | Now the Australians are bidding for the Olympics in the year 2000 , the plan being to hoist the Olympic rings at the SCG . |
| 18 | Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected . |
| 19 | This frequently turns out to be a manifestation of the fact that Satanists are praying for the breakdown of Christian marriage . |
| 20 | If , while we are praying for the Lord to do a new thing , we are failing to take action in areas where his intentions are perfectly clear and his resources for their implementation guaranteed , then he is unlikely to respond to our appeals to do more . |
| 21 | A number of board members are pressing for the directors ' new suites , now being readied at the top of a spanking new building on Washington 's H Street , to be exempted from the Bank-wide policy of no smoking that begins on July 1st . |
| 22 | I do n't think anybody can agree , there is , there is perhaps a better way of looking at the current formula , but I 'm just a little bit concerned having read this report and seen the purpose , about the way that er , the A C C are , are pressing for the |
| 23 | The M40 currently carries about 45,000 , but that 's due to increase by 30% in the next 10 years , so councillors are pressing for the M40 to be included . |
| 24 | And remember that you are walking for the psychological benefits as well as the fitness and slimness benefits . |
| 25 | Partly I am mesmerised by its spinach-green tanks and cowling , its red pulleys , dogs and levers , its greasy leather belts , its twitching , glittering blades , stink of hot oil , petrol , exhaust … and partly I am praying for the chance that something — I 've no idea what , but just something — may go wrong … so that I , Jimbo , the firstborn , may step into the breach and save the day . |
| 26 | She told The Universe , the Catholic weekly : ‘ I am praying for the family and I feel very sorry for them . |
| 27 | A charter of Charles the Bald in 875 exempted the peasants of St-Philibert , Tournus , in Burgundy from market dues " whether they are trading for the abbey or for themselves " . |
| 28 | I am ordering for the week . ’ |
| 29 | " I am looking for the Reed Girl . " |
| 30 | ‘ Now I have got that first win I am looking for the second . ’ |