Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shankill player Cowan , the former Irish Junior number one , is no longer eligible for Junior events and welcomes the opportunity to share the team bench with the legendary Slevin , now competing for Lubeck in the German National League . |
| 2 | Despite the wealth of evidence that nuclear power can never under-price fossil fuel-generated electricity , BNFL is looking at ways of competing for supply in the open market . |
| 3 | It is not obvious how this can be guaranteed by bureaus competing for business in quasi-market conditions . |
| 4 | There had been fears that the entry of SeaCat into the cross-Channel route would mean more companies competing for business in a static market . |
| 5 | I hope that the paper will contribute to the debate about the nature and form of organizing for health in other countries . |
| 6 | When she arrived in England in 1568 she claimed to be seeking the protection of her cousin Elizabeth , but at the same time began scheming for support in her claims to both thrones , having earlier told a priest that she ‘ trusted to find many friends when time did serve , especially among those of the old religion ’ . |
| 7 | The disadvantage ( occasionally overwhelming ) is the capital cost , even allowing for relief in respect of interest charges and capital allowances for new buildings and other improvements . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 9 | I felt her hand rooting for mine in the pocket of my jacket . |
| 10 | Pupils are encouraged , even expected , to pursue a topic through several drafts before editing for publication in whatever local sense this may occur . |
| 11 | The New York-based human rights organization Asia Watch issued a report on Sept. 1 claiming that political prisoners were being used as forced labour in prison factories producing for export in Liaoning Province , and rejecting the Chinese government 's claim that prison-made products were not for export . |
| 12 | In his celebrated letter to Chesterfield , Samuel Johnson asks : ‘ Is not a Patron , My Lord , one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help . ’ |
| 13 | On Saturday he was back in his own Opel and despite struggling for grip in the slippery Fermanagh forests he played safe to finish 35 seconds behind the Ford Escort Cosworth of Leckey . |
| 14 | She thought again of waking him , for he was struggling for breath in his sleep . |
| 15 | The Errol Flynn looks crumbled with age , and the man whose strike rate in first-class cricket was better than O'Reilly 's , Mailey 's or Grimmett 's entered the twilight world of trampdom under the bridges of the Yarra , drinking meths and fossicking for food in garbage-bins . |
| 16 | Praying for peace in the Balkans |
| 17 | IN this season of New Year forecasts — which mostly come unstuck — they are praying for rain in 1993 in Stowmarket , Suffolk . |
| 18 | There is already a KSR1 at Manchester University and the company has established a UK subsidiary ; it is now opening for business in Germany and France . |
| 19 | With this money , he was able to pay all his supporters , and with this added incentive he pressed the Moorish Caliphs so hard that they submitted to him , sueing for peace in the April of 1090 . |
| 20 | Nigel Clough 's arrival at Liverpool , Wales ' World Cup prospects and his natural thirst for goals has left the Reds ' striker itching for action in a season which could turn out to be a memorable . |
| 21 | This matter was raised again at the Nomenclature Committee 's 1991 meeting , when it was noted that IUPAC recommended the ‘ f ’ spelling for sulphur in the 1990 edition of Nomenclature of inorganic chemistry while retaining the common UK spellings for caesium and aluminium . |
| 22 | On the other side of the world another Banbury team are driving for victory in the world rally championship … |
| 23 | They would be charged with specific tasks , such as monitoring discrimination , checking for ageism in job advertisements , creating a wider range of opportunities for older workers . |
| 24 | According to the Home Office statistics the number of people applying for asylum in the first quarter of 1992 more than halved , from 3730 a month last year to 1730 a month this year . |
| 25 | In the first few months of this year , they accounted for 20% of those applying for asylum in the main European countries . |
| 26 | Numbers applying for entry in September 1992 have increased even more sharply than a year ago and we currently anticipate a further large increase in first year entrants . |
| 27 | I think candidates who are thinking of applying for entry in nineteen eighty-five , who are now say seventeen coming on eighteen , have got three or four years ahead of them at university , which is a considerable time , and if nothing else , university will make them question themselves , what their interests are , and they 'll introduce them to new subjects , new areas of study , and it may be a mistake to embark on a vocational course , and discover halfway through that actually it 's not what you want to do . |
| 28 | They were hunting for evidence in the horrific case which detectives have dubbed the worst since child killers and torturers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley . |
| 29 | That 's why I despair when I read what is passing for news in some of the tabloids . |
| 30 | She was speaking quietly but fast , and pausing for breath in the wrong places the way politicians do when they fear interruption . |