Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 2 | The programme was suspended in January 1991 because of the Gulf crisis , but in February legislation allowing for the 100 per cent privatization ( previously restricted to 49 per cent ) of companies in key sectors secured Parliamentary approval . |
| 3 | The dog , which was hardly backed at 5–1 , clocked a tremendous 27.47 secs for the 450 metres trip , and even allowing for the +30 going still ‘ found ’ 47 spots . |
| 4 | On June 12 an accord was signed between the RPR and the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) allowing for the two parties to put up joint candidates at local and legislative elections . |
| 5 | Allowing for the three major leakages of imports , savings and taxation , it has been calculated that for every £l paid to an employee in the UK , a further 80 pence of expenditure is generated throughout the economy . |
| 6 | During 1991 , BTR increased its workforce from 105,000 to 140,000 but , after allowing for the 48,000 staff added because of acquisitions , there was a net reduction of 13,000 . |
| 7 | These meetings are Making the most of the seventy fifth in shops , Involving young people in singing for the seventy fifth , Branches sharing fund raising ideas for the seventy fifth and Small World Theatre extracts from Moving , a play on the theme of refugees . |
| 8 | Working on board can build up a hearty appetite and catering for the 180 crew on board Balder has been managed by P&O Catering . |
| 9 | Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew . |
| 10 | With its panoramic views over the River Thames at Docklands , it is a delightful venue for CCG catering manager Tracey Evans and head chef Steve Raven , who until the recent opening of the restaurant were catering for the 200 Reuters staff from a portacabin complex . |
| 11 | Increasingly all institutions catering for the 16–19 age group will need to run a ‘ mixed economy ’ — preparing students for entry into higher education or for employment . |
| 12 | Registration figures went down when the poll tax was introduced , but — at least nationally — they staged a marked recovery in 1992 , more than compensating for the 1989 drop . |
| 13 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 14 | Driving for the 555 Subaru World Rally team , he ended the 3-day event 7 minutes ahead of his nearest rival and leaves him in 6th place in the World drivers table . |
| 15 | For Scotland it 's now a case of rebuilding for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 16 | Two Kirkwall solicitors were acting for the four families . |
| 17 | Lawyers acting for the 14 nuns are due to see a judge in chambers today to ask for a judicial review which would effectively prevent ministry officials carrying out the slaughter at Our Lady of the Passion Monastery near Daventry . |
| 18 | He was now acting for the two men accused of bombing the Pan Am jumbo jet in 1988 with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 19 | Lawyers acting for the 31 year-old double terror victim have recently entered into negotiations with Northern Ireland Office lawyers to settle a compensation case arising out of the first attack on him in which he lost a leg and suffered serious damage to an arm . |
| 20 | Apple Corps , acting for the three surviving Beatles , is suing Adam Cooper , 29 , for breach of copyright . |
| 21 | Greenpeace is pushing for the four — Hinkley Point A , Sizewell A , Dungeness A and Bradwell — to be shut immediately . |
| 22 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 23 | Last night , a police spokesman said : ‘ We are still looking for the two boys , aged about 10-14 years … |
| 24 | Still no goals , it 's play to Gascoigne , Gascoigne now still going forward , Gascoigne on the edge of the penalty , looking for the one two , he gets the one two , great tackle there by Les Robinson , there 's still a chance to Spurs Steve Foster , chance now — and it 's a goal to Spurs . |
| 25 | Nayim now forward to Paul Stewart , sorry to Paul Allen , Allen lays it wide now to Fenwick , Fenwick to Gascoigne , Gascoigne cuts inside , this is where he 's his most dangerous , Gascoigne going forward looking for the one two to Walsh , to Gascoigne , Gascoigne 's on his way through , Gascoigne shoots — tremendous tackle — oh what a goal by Paul Gascoigne . |
| 26 | She analysed each member of this roll of dishonour , looking for the 13 hallmarks of weediness . |
| 27 | I was looking for the twenty-five pounds . |
| 28 | Or indeed they could be heading for the two peaks we had just thrashed . |
| 29 | After all , there has been little in the real world to justify optimism : economic activity has continued to fall — down 2.5% in 1991 and close to 0.8% in 1992 — unemployment is heading for the 3 million mark , business failures in 1992 ran 31% ahead of a year earlier . |
| 30 | We 're having a whole day next term to sort out testing for the eleven year olds . |