Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planning can not be socially rational , as it would be under socialism , where planning for need would replace production for profit . |
| 2 | Like others , we found in situ hybridisation to be more sensitive than immunostaining for confirmation of cytomegalovirus infection . |
| 3 | Rather than waiting for inspiration he is shown with a pen in his hand , an unfinished manuscript on the table , and at his side a harpsichord on which we are to imagine him playing through the work in progress . |
| 4 | When Luv opened at the Booth Theater in 1964 ( with Wallach , Jackson and Arkin ) , Walter Kerr over-enthusiastically claimed it was better than Waiting for Godot . |
| 5 | Encourage comment , speculation and prediction rather than asking for reproduction of what they have heard . |
| 6 | And rather than asking for commission from suppliers he often buys the weapons himself and sells them at a profit . |
| 7 | The orthodox view was that the megalith builders were just savages quite incapable of surveying or having any finer thoughts than grubbing for food and feuding with other tribes . |
| 8 | It is this latter consideration that helps explain why many people with high replacement ratios plus the possibility for ‘ leisure ’ remain in work rather than opting for unemployment . |
| 9 | ‘ Better this , ’ he bellowed , ‘ than begging for trade from Westminster to the Wool Quay ! ’ |
| 10 | Airlines will start pulling out of unprofitable routes rather than fighting for market share . |
| 11 | It has stimulated duty solicitor schemes , including schemes at prisons ; encouraged law centres ; monitored the grant and refusal of legal aid in magistrates ’ courts ; provided training for volunteer workers at advice agencies ; published a leaflet aimed at those who have suffered accidents ; produced directories of advice agencies ; and taken on other responsibilities connected with the stimulation and co-ordination of legal services . |
| 12 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |
| 13 | If making use of the latter , which is very powerful , make use of the wild card facility and think laterally for alternative words , i.e. if searching for steel stockholders search using the intersect of Set A ( stock* AND distribute* AND supply* AND wholesale* ) AND Set B ( steel* AND metal* AND ferr* AND alloy * ) . |
| 14 | Please enclose large sae if writing for information . |
| 15 | Herr Nordern gave her a ghastly , feeble grin , as if asking for remission , but Frau Nordern turned a cold face away , showing only an upright back and stiff neck which in their rigidity seemed to symbolise the rectitude of all the generations of the Houses of von Bromberg and von Ritter . |
| 16 | ‘ Good lord , I 'm a genius , ’ the impresario wailed , as if crying for help . |
| 17 | Joanna looked at Isabel as if hoping for enlightenment . |
| 18 | His mouth opened and closed , as if gasping for breath , the dying struggle of an animal bleeding out its life through the sacrificial cut . |
| 19 | Kandinskaya licked her lips as if stalling for time ; Jezrael could see her imminence paling as she strove for greater calm . |
| 20 | Here , there is always more food than any individual would need , and because searching for food as a group is more efficient than searching individually , most dolphins have developed communal and co-operative hunting practices . |
| 21 | This neither has to be demonstrated nor theorized because meaning for semiotics is not the issue , it is the structure of signifiers that is under scrutiny . |
| 22 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 23 | We saw several cuberow , usually in pairs , while hunting for nyala . |
| 24 | While searching for prey , many dolphin species move in tight schools distributed over a large area , using sound to stay in contact and communicate with each other over significant distances . |
| 25 | A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact . |
| 26 | While researching a book on the history of Arabia he was struck by the lack of early material , and while searching for place names of non-Arabic origin in a gazetteer recently produced in Riyadh , he found that nearly all the Biblical place names from the patriarchal period were concentrated in a small area of the Red Sea north of Yemen and far south of the traditional sites in Palestine . |
| 27 | She had met the deceased while looking for accommodation . |
| 28 | Occasionally birds disturb mulches while looking for food |
| 29 | While looking for food they are careful not to eat animals or human beings . |
| 30 | Calls full of anguish , of him confessing his love for her , while imploring for time to explore his spiritual struggle . |