Example sentences of "[indef pn] is [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zelda West-Meads of Relate adds , ‘ Here someone is looking for their ideal , but she does n't exist . |
| 2 | 1 You work in an estate agency and someone is looking for a property for £30,000 . |
| 3 | Her story reminds me of that old Christian Aid appeal for collectors , showing an elderly lady at a lace-curtained window , with the caption ‘ Someone is waiting for you ’ . |
| 4 | But nobody is paying for the increasingly large amount of work we do for the childbearing and professional public at large . |
| 5 | In every prima facae case there are always anomalies if somebody is looking for them . ’ |
| 6 | Thursday the tenth of February on Wednesday the ninth , now this is all on the assumption that everything is going for us |
| 7 | It can take time to find exactly where the records one is searching for are kept . |
| 8 | Although a two-state success/failure branch for components and systems is often used , this may be inadequate when we have to examine partial successes or failures ; this treatment for the plant might well produce thousands of sequences , so these are usually grouped into a small set of typical sequence states that will be bounding in terms of the consequences one is looking for . |
| 9 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 10 | Behaviour which is hard to explain , if one is looking for moral consistency , makes underlying sense , if one thinks in terms of power . |
| 11 | Therefore , it is said , one is looking for the actual cost of providing that benefit for the employee . |
| 12 | He must , as Ardener demonstrates , seek to sow ‘ semantic grain and grow theoretical crystals ’ which he may well appreciate no one is asking for . |
| 13 | Lot number sixty eight Lot sixty eight is another one there we are that one is showing for a hundred pounds at one ten , one twenty , one thirty bid , and s one forty one fifty sixty one seventy eighty one ninety two hundred two twenty two forty two forty bid at the back and selling for two forty , all done at two hundred and forty . |
| 14 | The gain in precision by taking two biopsy samples compared with one is striking for both methods ; this effect is because of variation between biopsy specimens within subjects . |
| 15 | Why do n't you ask the name of the governess , and why everybody is looking for her ? ’ |
| 16 | Sir — If anyone is looking for a good cause to support — perhaps as a competitor in the ADT London Marathon , or in some other activity — please remember the NSPCC . |
| 17 | If anyone is looking for an experienced goal scorer he fits the bill . |
| 18 | Everyone is waiting for the Japanese . |
| 19 | What almost everyone is waiting for is the showdown between North and South Korea on Monday . |
| 20 | This hamlet in northern Michigan is the Hollywood stereotype of a sleepy little town , but on this particular morning tension crackles in the air : everyone is waiting for the start of the day 's big event . |
| 21 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 22 | Everyone is waiting for you . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's as if everyone is waiting for something , is n't it ? ’ |
| 24 | It seems everyone is waiting for Strach to have 2 quiet games in order to start ending his career . |
| 25 | Against both Yeovil and Scarborough we are prepared to accept a David and Goliath situation in which everyone is pulling for little David . ’ |
| 26 | But not everyone is travelling for business or pleasure . |
| 27 | I must tell the Leader of the House that , if the election is to be on 9 April — everyone is planning for it , buying space to advertise and organising ; one hears it from sources in the advertising business who know what the Opposition and the Government are doing — then , for the good of the House , for heaven 's sake announce the date and let us do business in a sensible fashion during the next six weeks , instead of proceeding in this way and covering up the reality . |
| 28 | " I love foliage and I think you have to rely a lot on that in small gardens because you do n't have room to leave dormant areas where nothing is happening for a long period , " she says . |
| 29 | Dealers request leniency as almost nothing is selling for more than $80,000 in Japan at present |
| 30 | In future all organs recovered in Scotland will be used here except in cases where no-one is waiting for an operation , when the organs will be used elsewhere in Britain . |