Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 2 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 3 | Obviously , the fewer carp competing for the available food the better the chance of reaching a worthwhile size . |
| 4 | Scotland at their best and Ireland should now reach the semi-finals and Wales , competing for the first time , could join them . |
| 5 | I have no doubt that there will be special preparations and allowances made by police and spectators for the Marathon , in which I will be competing for the first time tomorrow . |
| 6 | SOUTH AFRICA , who will be competing for the first time , are to stage the 1995 Rugby World Cup . |
| 7 | This time an overseas crew from South Africa is competing for the first time . |
| 8 | Sheffield Steelers are sweeping the opposition aside in their bid to gain league entry , while Trafford Metros , Medway Bears and Streatham Redskins are competing for the other vacancy . |
| 9 | London will again fill one of the places with Glasgow , Manchester and Birmingham competing for the other spot . |
| 10 | The pack will pull the carcass apart , competing for the best of the kill , and Fido plays tug-of-war games , hoping to win the toy . |
| 11 | East European countries are thus competing for the best western companies just as western companies are competing for contracts . |
| 12 | For any given program there is an optimum or efficient memory usage for an environment in which many programs are competing for the limited available real memory . |
| 13 | ‘ Indeed , there is an increasing number of countries competing for the limited funds available for re-investment and will be glad to welcome new entrants . |
| 14 | What it will not do of course , is reconcile needs competing for the same resources . |
| 15 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 16 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 17 | It wo n't be competing for the same resources . |
| 18 | They need a new identity , but in seeking it they find themselves competing for the same political space with social movements that share their radical vocation . |
| 19 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 20 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 21 | Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 . |
| 22 | Road we will have to consider though against other schemes also competing for the next waive of funding . |
| 23 | One boy , Dai Knoyle , was caddying for the great rugby player Barry John and took him back to his house to change . |
| 24 | Willie had caught the bug , and his first top professional tournament duly arrived with a trip to Turnberry for the News of the World PGA Matchplay Championship , caddying for the legendary Scot Eric Brown . |
| 25 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 26 | He said there were three er , down there canvassing for the main parties and er , well quite a lot of people there and of course rich pickings for , providing they can get anybody to stop and talk to them do n't know , they 'd drive around |
| 27 | Yesterday we observed that Mr Jeffrey Archer ( whose idea of canvassing for the Tory Party has revived the lost art of burlesque ) had bet £10 that the Tories will win with a majority of 27 seats . |
| 28 | I encountered an old lady of a more awkward sort while canvassing for the Tory candidate in Crosby — a by-election subsequently won for the SDP by Shirley Williams . |
| 29 | Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows . |
| 30 | He commandeth you to weep ; and that princely One , who took up to heaven with Him a man 's heart to be a compassionate High Priest , became your fellow companion on earth , by weeping for the dead ( John 11.35 ) . ’ |