Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passenger demand forecasting for new rail services |
| 2 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 3 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 4 | Commonly , sales forecasting for a period of up to one year ahead is differentiated from sales and market forecasting for longer periods . |
| 5 | Gregarious , flocks often hawking for flying insects and spiralling up to perform aerobatics . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So often in conditions races we see just a handful of runners competing for good prizemoney , a situation which has prompted a reduction in Pattern races from 139 to 101 in the 1990-91 season . |
| 8 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 9 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 10 | The day began with the men 's semi final , 28 qualifiers competing for eight places in the final . |
| 11 | Although I came third out of fifty folk competing for established status by examination , it was no good , only one candidate was accepted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In nature , many animals are competing for limited resources . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The recent wave of lawlessness , in which more than 150 people were reportedly murdered , had been fuelled by fierce fighting between rival student groups competing for scarce dormitory spaces at Dhaka University . |
| 16 | Agency workers are also paid by the hour , but the larger agencies , competing for scarce labour , have increasingly started to offer fringe benefits such as sickness and holiday pay [ see Chapter 5 ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ In some areas we are already competing for that work ’ . |
| 20 | We may think of them as competing for various tenures . |
| 21 | There were cars in the streets and brash , noisy journalists crowded round hotel bars competing for sensational stories to wire to their papers . |
| 22 | It makes it easier , in principle , to ‘ see ’ how many hypotheses are competing for some portion of an utterance , for example , and to decide which are the most promising given the evidence . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The views of his Ministerial colleagues , not least the Prime Minister , will be of particular relevance whenever a subject overruns departmental boundaries and the Home Office is competing for Parliamentary time . |
| 26 | After the laying of a few ‘ experimental ’ courses with due consideration for commercial shipping , wind direction and a fleet of local Finn sailors competing for Olympic squad selection , racing , finally , got under way . |
| 27 | ‘ If we abandon nuclear power , we abandon them to competing for declining energy sources at a price they will clearly not be able to afford . ’ |
| 28 | Does the Secretary of State believe that the action of the board of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. in disqualifying us from competing for this work is fair to Cammell Laird ? |
| 29 | There is no shortage of males in the flocks during pair formation , so hens are probably competing for high quality males . |
| 30 | Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time . |