Example sentences of "[v-ing] for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This jogging last-of-the-summer-wine single sees singer Jarvis apologising for an imagined ( we hope ) boyhood affair . |
| 2 | Poland restored relations on Feb. 27 , calling the rift a mistake , apologising for an anti-Semitic purge in March 1968 and offering to restore citizenship to about 30,000 Jews forced to emigrate at that time . |
| 3 | Both are well up on the old 1.8 's 89hp and 101lbf ft , and ( even allowing for an extra 234kg/516lb of flab ) power/weight ratio has improved by 19% . |
| 4 | Total revenue would increase by S$1,900 million , to S$17,200 million , allowing for an overall surplus ( that is , surplus minus net lending and plus net capital receipts ) of S$3,500 million , or 5.3 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 5 | Some of his actions , in particular the unexpected introduction of a constitutional amendment allowing for an elected Vice-President and the subsequent appointment of Moudud Ahmed to that post , caused some disquiet among party members . |
| 6 | The curiously-named ‘ master break ’ jacks provide a feed to additional power amps etc. , the return socket catering for an incoming signal which will bypass the DSP 's preamp , to be fed straight to the power amp . |
| 7 | Eminent scientists are clamouring for an outright ban on all chlorine substances . |
| 8 | Here the helicopter spotted a crowd gathering for an illegal rave in Buckinghamshire . |
| 9 | It can be used to find missing people and in the Thames Valley area the system spotted party-goers gathering for an illegal rave in Buckinghamshire . |
| 10 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 11 | Do n't try and make me out to be some kind of embittered nut compensating for an unsatisfactory sex-life . ’ |
| 12 | IPSWICH Jaffa return to Stopsley Park , Luton , tomorrow bidding for an incredible fourth successive win in the Today 's Runner Cross Country League national finals . |
| 13 | It adds up to quite an incentive for the ‘ King of the Park ’ Kenny McKinstry who will be bidding for an unprecedented sixth victory this year , and a second in a row in his Kaliber Subaru Legacy . |
| 14 | The palate aching for an absent flavour . |
| 15 | In the meantime , a leading US food manufacturer is pressing for an exclusive deal with Staley to help it challenge rivals which already product diet cakes and desserts based on Simpless and other formulations . |
| 16 | He is pressing for an early meeting with Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd , who has been sent a copy of the survey . |
| 17 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 18 | The fact that the assassination coincided with the release in Lebanon of the British hostage John McCarthy [ see p. 38405 ] fuelled speculation that it had been sanctioned by opponents of the Iranian government critical of its current conciliatory attitude towards the West [ see pp.38212 ; 38309 ] and of its role in pressing for an early resolution of the hostage crisis . |
| 19 | We are therefore pressing for an immediate reduction in the stock of debt for those countries . |
| 20 | Because of its concerns about the consultants ' figures , convention officials have been pressing for an urgent meeting of a joint Scottish Office-COSLA working party on finance since early February but that has not taken place . |
| 21 | A VALUABLE BREATHING SPACE Applying for an individual voluntary arrangement can banish the spectre of personal bankruptcy |
| 22 | Agreements not infrequently will provide that the mere fact of the presentation of a petition for a bankruptcy order by a creditor , or a partner applying for an interim order under s253 of the Insolvency Act 1986 , or a partner entering into a compromise for the benefit of his creditors generally , or even the circumstance of a partner being unable and having no reasonable prospect of being able to pay his debts , should make the power exercisable . |
| 23 | the election for which you are applying for an absent vote ; |
| 24 | The Ffestiniog Railway Trust acting on a High Court judge 's advice is currently applying for an Amending Order from the Ministry of Transport for the transfer of the WHR Company to the Ffestiniog . |
| 25 | Puffer , a nineteenth-century female psychology graduate thinking of applying for an academic post , is told by her college president , ‘ the rumor … concerning your engagement may have … affected the recommendation I sent ’ . |
| 26 | ’ The Colonel and his two juniors stood listening for an intense half minute until they all three felt uneasy holding the pose for so long . |
| 27 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 28 | If such covenants are mixed with negative covenants , which appear on the Register , or if they are contained in a document that is bound up in the certificate , they will be apparent , and a conveyancer acting for an original covenantor who is selling should peruse these covenants , providing in the contract for a covenant of indemnity against breach of any positive covenants by the buyer ( see below ) ; ( see special condition K , 34 ) . |
| 29 | It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) . |
| 30 | For years , American X-ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X-ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF ) which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X-ray telescopes presently planned . |