Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ In some areas we are already competing for that work ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You 'll be working for me next year , but who do you fancy caddying for this year ? ’ |
| 8 | I set off again , maintaining for some reason — perhaps because I expected further farm creatures to wander across my path — my slow speed of before . |
| 9 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 10 | One type of authoritarian rule had been followed by another , not allowing for that kind of unsettling liberalization which is so conducive to uprisings among minorities . |
| 11 | ‘ We do not believe that the child made this up , but even allowing for that possibility , the question why must be answered and for that Mr Allen will always be culpable , ’ the statement from the lawyer , Eleanor Alter said . |
| 12 | But even allowing for that trait of nature , the number of occasions on which both Conservatives and Labour politicians have told me they are doing better than the polls say is now large enough to make me sniff the air suspiciously . |
| 13 | A European Community ( EC ) plan was drafted for Hunosa allowing for most job losses to be covered by early retirement on full pay until the age of 68 or by natural job shrinkage . |
| 14 | It is not surprising to find the Russian government in 1784 asking officially for information on the organisation of the ministry ; and the memorandum drawn up in response to this request by one of the premiers commis paints , even allowing for some gilding of the lily , an impressive picture of the efficiency with which , at least in theory , correspondence was classified , answered and indexed . |
| 15 | Based on an earlier estimate of £70,000 for computerised support of approximately 20,000 files in another department ( without networking costs ) , a similar system for the Highways and Planning departments , allowing for some economy of scale , could have cost in excess of £150,000 at the prices that were then current . |
| 16 | Can the Minister tell us whether Britain 's shipyards will be assured of a very early decision on a type 42 replacement , thus allowing for some continuity of work and ending the grave uncertainty in the shipyards so that men and management can get on with what they do best — building ships in British yards ? |
| 17 | Even allowing for some massaging of programmes into ‘ serious ’ categories , ITV 's progressive seriousness saw a halving of its ‘ entertainment ’ schedules . |
| 18 | The firm will need to decide whether partners ' drawings should be paid gross without allowing for any tax reserve , or , alternatively , whether to withhold tax which is not a partnership liability , but an individual partner 's liability . |
| 19 | But , even allowing for this handicap , Irvin and Martin found that university astronomers were not happy with the ‘ inflexible ’ administration of the telescope by the Royal Greenwich Observatory . |
| 20 | But allowing for this criticism , the test seems to be workable . |
| 21 | Allowing for this element means that the average income from farming per full-time equivalent may be about £9,000 per annum . |
| 22 | After allowing for this subsidence there are no significant residual gravity changes between June 1991 and June 1992 , except at the summit crater where there was a decrease of 80μGal . |
| 23 | Since the department since the regional office has been suggesting for some time , or throughout the entire process of this structure plan alteration , that erm an exceptions policy should be considered by the erm county council , I think it would be consistent that we would anticipate the panel could reach a conclusion on the inclusion of the major exceptions policy as part of this alteration . |
| 24 | He was also closely involved with George Birkbeck [ q.v. ] and the popular education movement , contending for each child to ‘ have that given to it which nobody can take away ’ . |
| 25 | First , that we have no intention of abandoning public ownership and accepting for all time the present frontier of the public sector . |
| 26 | The Food and Drug Administration has also hinted that it may revise a policy that does not at present require special safety testing or labelling for most biotechnology foods . |
| 27 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 28 | As with the Glasgow Road junction , the projected heavy traffic flows through this junction and also the requirement for traffic movement on to and off the bypass in both north and south directions pointed to the need for an intersection catering for all traffic movements . |
| 29 | One of the publishers most successful at catering for this hunger for information is International Data Group ( IDG ) , a firm that has grown big by breaking many of the management rules cherished by other big publishers . |
| 30 | consider engaging professional help to get a critical analysis of WO population/housing growth predictions and the likely impact of catering for this growth . |