Example sentences of "[n mass] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain , the US and France warned Iraq yesterday of ‘ serious consequences ’ if it did not remove anti-aircraft missiles threatening UN aircraft searching for nuclear and chemical weapons . |
| 2 | Although I came third out of fifty folk competing for established status by examination , it was no good , only one candidate was accepted . |
| 3 | The business then bought a machine for £4,000 paying for this in cash , and at the same time bought a second machine on credit terms . |
| 4 | Britain is the only country in Europe which imprisons people applying for political asylum . |
| 5 | As we are now reaching the Summer holiday period the adjustments to flexitime will be increasing due to staff applying for annual leave , flexi holidays and extended time away from work . |
| 6 | Have a nice weekend , keep on taking the pills yeah well you know what it 's like y'know there 'll be so many people dying for this to fail well they do n't know what 's going on but but all they 'll get is one call interception which says I ca n't get through I ca n't get through , or I 've tried this number and it does n't work and blah you know usual thing but right I must keep on taking the Buffalo Bills . |
| 7 | It was also one of the main reasons for people returning for more training . |
| 8 | One member of the Lindop committee , Paul Sieghart , a lawyer , told New Scientist last week that the chief officers feeling in 1978 ‘ was that intelligence systems — with unverified non-factual information — should not find their way into factual systems , and therefore [ the data ] should not be retrieved by people looking for factual information . ’ |
| 9 | An increasing number of calls come from people looking for start-up premises for small businesses . |
| 10 | There 'll be a lot of people vying for those places as well . |
| 11 | After all , he was the chief scientist on board the boat , it was his $250,000 paying for this month-long expedition ( this research vessel cost $7000 a day to run ) , and he was getting a little nervous out there , all by himself , getting colder by the second and drifting away on a little piece of ice . |
| 12 | You , you go for a job and there 's two hundred people going for that one job . |
| 13 | He was a little surprised when she said no and even more so when she told him that he was wasting the doctor 's time — there were sick people waiting for these beds . |
| 14 | Most people caring for diabetic patients realise the importance of the patient actively participating in the very first injection of insulin . |
| 15 | Staff caring for elderly people mostly felt that keeping in touch was not a problem and systems for co-ordinating services had already been established . |
| 16 | A petition signed by 2,500 people calling for better nursery provision was presented to County Hall in Durham . |
| 17 | ‘ When you play live , ’ opines the maestro , ‘ there are thousands of people screaming for more , paying good money to watch you perform . |
| 18 | A failure to adapt to this situation will result in more newly qualified staff leaving for other types of work or training when a period of work experience would have been valuable . |
| 19 | Finally , the Polytechnic has established a wide-ranging programme of research within the institution and has maintained a proportion of its staff working for higher degrees . |
| 20 | Library training co-operatives can undertake to fulfil , at little direct cost , many of the objectives currently fulfilled by external courses — for example , offering staff the chance to meet and exchange views with staff working for other authorities or in different types of libraries ; encouraging professional awareness and commitment to professional values — two of the indirect objectives that are sometimes thought of as the ‘ real ’ value of external course attendance . |
| 21 | In Africa she had enjoyed the company of men and many had come under her spell including government inspectors , colleagues from other teacher training establishments and senior staff working for one of the major publishing houses . |
| 22 | On one occasion Eva visited Bulawayo where she met people working for other organisations . |
| 23 | ‘ Rapid Response Brigades ’ , set up by the government to deal with any sign of ‘ counter-revolution ’ , have harassed people working for human rights organisations or unofficial political opposition groups . |