Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commonly , sales forecasting for a period of up to one year ahead is differentiated from sales and market forecasting for longer periods . |
| 2 | Gregarious , flocks often hawking for flying insects and spiralling up to perform aerobatics . |
| 3 | The 17th annual conference of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions , held in London in October , endorsed the use of international standards on auditing for cross-border offerings and continuous reporting by foreign issuers . |
| 4 | The day began with the men 's semi final , 28 qualifiers competing for eight places in the final . |
| 5 | The drawing of lines between right and wrong [ or duty and obligation ] is being overshadowed by the need for cooperative adjustment and common improvement among States competing for limited resources . |
| 6 | In nature , many animals are competing for limited resources . |
| 7 | An additional problem is that Soviet organisations are automatically barred from competing for infra-structural projects sponsored by the World Bank or the Inter-American Development Bank , which require bidders to be members of these institutions . |
| 8 | Of the 1,185 candidates competing for 349 seats ( polling was not scheduled in 11 constituencies in Nagorny Karabakh and the neighbouring Shaumyan district because of security concerns ) , 921 were CP members . |
| 9 | Now that the national museums no longer have their purchase grants awarded separately from grant in aid for running costs , they fear that those will be further whittled away and they will be even less capable of competing for major masterpieces . |
| 10 | We may think of them as competing for various tenures . |
| 11 | There were cars in the streets and brash , noisy journalists crowded round hotel bars competing for sensational stories to wire to their papers . |
| 12 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 13 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 14 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 15 | He and Gros pulled every string , while canvassing for suitable volunteers from the Foreign Legion and the Field Service . |
| 16 | After fumbling for several minutes , his arms aching desperately , he was able to push up the catch . |
| 17 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 18 | All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes . |
| 19 | From my own experience , service breaks of 15–20 years are not at all unusual , although older candidates do tend to underestimate the value of their past experience , apologising for personal inadequacies which , on further examination , do not exist . |
| 20 | The animals are packed with sufficient food and a source of moisture for the complete journey allowing for possible delays . |
| 21 | Allowing for stale prices and GARCH effects , they found that the volatility of futures returns led that of spot returns by fifteen minutes . |
| 22 | By and large , and allowing for spoiling operations at key points in the evening , programmes are arranged within time-slots to avoid outright competition for the same demographic group or taste constituency . |
| 23 | In the first stage of the transitional period legislation allowing for political parties was to be prepared , and a commission would be set up to draft a new constitution . |
| 24 | During the 1980s , however , there have been very marked changes in the levels of secondary school enrolment , even allowing for political disruptions . |
| 25 | But even allowing for such problems and treating the figures with due caution , they do give a dramatic picture of the relative sizes of different currency segments of the world bond market . |
| 26 | The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group . |
| 27 | Simply to maintain current patterns of expenditure will require considerable expansion of the budget , without allowing for technological changes in service provision . |
| 28 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
| 29 | His figures show that even at 1990 inputs and output the occupier 's surplus from farming is less than £300 , becoming about £6000 after allowing for all sources of income . |
| 30 | in calculating lost pension rights the correct approach is 1 ) apply the appropriate multiplier to the appropriate multiplicand 2 ) the appropriate multiplicand is the pursuers level of wage which would have been received if currently employed 3 ) allowing for all contingencies including the chance of obtaining a pension in the future the multiplier for a 48 year old was 6 4 ) the resulting figure should be reduced for the accelerated benefit bearing in mind that the pension would not have been paid before age 65 . |