Example sentences of "[pron] are [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 2 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 3 | The commonest and most important of these are pre-sentence reports ( formerly known as social inquiry reports ) , which are prepared for the court by probation officers ( or by social workers in the case of some juvenile offenders ) . |
| 4 | Brahe complies , and they enter into a description of the accelerator and the experiment , the details of which are covered for the reader ( not for them ) by the engine noise : |
| 5 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 6 | The sides of the tongue , which are raised for the preceding consonant , are lowered to allow air to escape over them ( this is called lateral release ) . |
| 7 | It is the subjective consciousness of the individual learner which perceives and construes the world , and this includes all those parts of the world which are presented for the learner to experience through the curriculum . |
| 8 | The women achieve this by the performances of countless religious rituals of their own which are observed for the welfare of their male protectors in their families . |
| 9 | In most accounts of the aggregate demand function , the reasons which are advanced for the inverse relationship between AD and p reduce , in essence , to the interaction between three complementary mechanisms . |
| 10 | First , the collection of data depends heavily on published financial accounts which are produced for the quite different purpose of minimising company taxation , with corresponding differences in the definition of capital . |
| 11 | Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected . |
| 12 | ‘ … a fiscal and accounting entity with self-balancing set of accounts recording cash and other financial resources together with all related liabilities and residual equities or balances and changes therein which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with special regulations , restrictions or limitations . ’ |
| 13 | These are mixes which are designed for the horse owner who still wants to feed traditionally ie oats etc , but wants to make up the deficiencies with a specific mix . |
| 14 | Last month , the first of two Tracking and Data Relay Satellites ( TDRS ) which are needed for the Spacelab mission , failed to reach geosynchronous orbit after being launched from the space shuttle Challenger . |
| 15 | Churchill agreed and decided that , regardless of the outcome of the talks about continuing the coalition into peacetime , ‘ any decisions which are needed for the supreme objects of FOOD and EMPLOYMENT in the years immediately after the war must be taken whether they involve legislation and whether they are controversial or not ’ . |
| 16 | The Accademia 's curator Annalisa Perissa Torrina has compiled detailed notes on each of the 221 drawings now in the Accademia and has identified the original sources of the reproductive drawings , 124 of which are reproduced for the first time . |
| 17 | All who are prepared for the ordained ministry are trained under considerable pressure of time and with an overcrowded curriculum . |
| 18 | THE LIEUTENANT SOUNDS HIS BUGLE TO ASSEMBLE THE ARCHERS WHO ARE TO SHOOT FOR THE ‘ ANCIENT SILVER ARROW ’ ( Page 65 ) |
| 19 | No further away than this morning The Times printed an advertisement from 209 of the great and the good who are calling for the legalisation of cannabis . |
| 20 | If the seller knows the number of companies who are competing for the order , their likely stances , the criteria used by the buying organisation when deciding between them , the degree of pressure on key members of the decision making unit , and any formula they might use for assessing price acceptability , an accurate assessment of the power balance should be possible . |
| 21 | Bello Bouba said that he was returning to join his " fellow countrymen who are struggling for the institution of a real democracy " . |
| 22 | Never feel uncomfortable warning people you encounter halfway up a mountain who are dressed for the beach that they are taking a great risk proceeding without extra clothing and food . |
| 23 | FlexiLoan has been developed for customers who are looking for the freedom to spend , without the rigidity of a fixed loan . |
| 24 | But there are certain feelings and reactions in bereavement that are common to much of the animal kingdom , including the human race , and all who are caring for the bereaved need to be aware of them , as well as being ready to accept the tremendous range of responses that people can produce from time to time in their efforts to deal with their painful situation . |
| 25 | Those who are caring for the bereaved need to be prepared to expect all kinds of strange reactions and uncharacteristic behaviour from them occasionally . |
| 26 | It is , therefore , not surprising to find in Luke that it is the Jews who are blamed for the death of Jesus . |
| 27 | Generally middle-aged , they may even have children who are working for the left-wing opposition , but their own closed environment has protected them from any understanding of the reality of their country . |
| 28 | Yeah , what have they , those people who are waiting for the police to check it out , the is it ? |
| 29 | It would be ridiculous to suggest that black kids who are constantly being geared up by teachers to thrust themselves into sports , do not , at some stage , recognize that there exists a manipulative element : they feel they are regarded as naturally gifted sportsmen ( see Vince Hilaire 's opening quotation ) , but without an abundance of intellectual equipment , who are used for the purposes of bringing prestige to both the individual teacher and the school . |
| 30 | Dundee club coach Stewart Harris , the Teamsport co-ordinator for basketball , is taking over from Lawrence Randak as coach to the student side who are preparing for the British Universities group tournament in Bath next week . |