Example sentences of "[v-ing] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is that the sub-continent 's representatives will still be competing for a one-day pot in Sharjah until the 20th . |
| 2 | JOHN ROLFE and Adrian Breton will be competing for a British Olympic place at the weekend when the rapid fire pistol match in the World Cup Tournament in Los Angeles will be the decider for Barcelona , writes Leslie Howcroft . |
| 3 | Asif and Trevor Penney , the newly-qualified Zimbabwean , will be competing for a middle-order place , though the first chance is likely to go to Paul Smith if he has shaken off last year 's injury troubles . |
| 4 | As employers find themselves competing for a falling number of young workers , there is a real opportunity to change out-dated and discriminatory attitudes towards older people . |
| 5 | This reflected the nature of the environment , the local pride of the individual Australian colonies , and the awareness of the railway builders and architects that they were building for a grander , though then unrealized , future . |
| 6 | Nathaniel Sherman stumbled slightly at the entrance of his hut , and his wife heard him cursing and fumbling for a long time with the flap fastenings . |
| 7 | POOR U.S. unemployment figures plus big falls by Wellcome and BAT sent shares tumbling for a dismal end to the week . |
| 8 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
| 9 | I suppose that this is a small matter to mention , but allowing for a slight extension to the 24 hours of the second day , the negotiation was completed more or less in the time allotted — a remarkable feat and a testimony to the profound drafting and negotiating skills of many of the member states and many of the governmental teams . |
| 10 | Even allowing for a slight predominance of boys over girls among children , this still suggests that around two-thirds of the first generation of mill workers were female . |
| 11 | Allowing for a certain amount of exaggeration , it would be reasonable to assume that most of the wealthy landowners and business men would have suffered in this ruthless purge . |
| 12 | On Dec. 4 the National Assembly unanimously adopted a foreign investment bill , allowing for a liberal regime . |
| 13 | Your education or training will have taken you far above the ordinary man although allowing for a proper pride in such an achievement , it does not require you to become intolerant of others not so fortunate . |
| 14 | The band of fluctuation either side of the new parities was widened from 1 per cent to 2.25 per cent , thus allowing for a larger margin of exchange rate fluctuation before official intervention was required . |
| 15 | The Assembly was expanded from 195 to 250 seats , allowing for a larger allocation of seats to independent candidates . |
| 16 | Aim for a margin of safety by allowing for a further two to three minutes ' ‘ sudden death ’ extension after that . |
| 17 | Erm er on that basis erm we would and and even allowing for even allowing for a dense movement from Bradford to North Yorkshire , erm we as it said in our statements , are happy that that movement will not hinder urban regeneration in the urban area of the Bradford Metropolitan district . |
| 18 | After allowing for a few thousand of natural increase , the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo would have fallen from 237,000 in 1981 to about 220,000 in 1986 . |
| 19 | Persian rugs have traditionally been considered the most expensive and easily re-saleable of all oriental rugs , and allowing for a few notable exceptions ( usually older and more collectable items from different parts of the world ) , this assumption has generally held true . |
| 20 | Around £150 for family holidays , allowing for a few days reasonably riding as part of the package . |
| 21 | Hunter would have gone further ; to him , ‘ embalming ’ meant a technique more sophisticated than that practised by the Egyptians , a technique ensuring perpetual preservation of the corpse 's remains , involving permanent chemical arrest of decomposition whilst allowing for a pre-mortem appearance . |
| 22 | If that system had stayed , allowing for a modest increase of 10pc annually for inflation et al , we would now be paying around £1050 , probably more with Labour in power locally . |
| 23 | Courts would be involved in pre-trial procedure much more actively than at present in attempting to keep the parties to proposed new timetables , whilst allowing for a realistic degree of relaxation by the court , and permitting the parties to vary particular time limits by agreement , subject always to the obligation to have the case ready for trial and set down within the overall timetable . |
| 24 | It will cover many kinds of shaping for a huge variety of subjects and once learned will save you a good deal of time in making up and garment fitting . |
| 25 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 26 | My support for Leeds is just as great as my hatred of the scum , so I for one will be rooting for a 1 nil defeat on saturday , with Leeds hopefully going on to do well in the FA cup . |
| 27 | Among attractions of a combined survey is the economy of mobilising for a larger survey with fewer turns for the ship . |
| 28 | ‘ Nor was I hinting for a guided tour . |
| 29 | It was very simple , efficient , and reliable in operation , with the minor disadvantage that the vaporizer required preheating for a few minutes before the engine could be started ; when running , it retained sufficient heat to ignite the injected fuel . |
| 30 | Both legal literature and the documentary evidence attest the use of what can be called trust clauses , as well as the practice of using for a single disposition the wording of both legacy and trust . |