Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other opposition parties preparing for multiparty politics included the Mozambique 's People 's Progressive Party ( PPPM ) , headed by Padimbe Kamati Andrea , which held its constituent congress in Maputo in mid-July . |
| 2 | WHO are more preposterous : the developers marching round southern England drawing up plans to turn some of the world 's most pleasing countryside into toytown suburbs ; or the nouveau-rural Volvo commuters looking for trendy ways to stop them ? |
| 3 | ‘ It may seem so to you , but you can take my word for it , if I were in the business of prowling around car parks looking for innocent Bentleys to wreck , I most certainly would n't use my own car as a battering-ram . |
| 4 | Farmers within ESAs can receive grants in return for signing management agreements providing for environment-friendly farming practises . |
| 5 | Business visitors looking for editorial staff seemed bemused to find themselves in the middle of such a busy and , it has to be said , chatty event . |
| 6 | The recent wave of lawlessness , in which more than 150 people were reportedly murdered , had been fuelled by fierce fighting between rival student groups competing for scarce dormitory spaces at Dhaka University . |
| 7 | Domestic passenger air traffic was considerably disrupted on March 4 , 1989 , when pilots and flight attendants working for Eastern Airlines went on strike . |
| 8 | In this sense the scene is clearly one of hazard problems looking for improved GIS rather than for GIS looking for good problems , as is all too often the case . |
| 9 | After the laying of a few ‘ experimental ’ courses with due consideration for commercial shipping , wind direction and a fleet of local Finn sailors competing for Olympic squad selection , racing , finally , got under way . |
| 10 | He would often prowl darkened housing estates searching for potential victims , said the colleague . |
| 11 | The MPs noted that health boards catering for dispersed rural populations ‘ face special problems in balancing the demand for local accident and emergency services against the possible risks of relying on a limited local service , particular for seriously ill or severely injured patients . ’ |
| 12 | City slickers aiming for net profit |
| 13 | HOSPITAL nurses caring for elderly patients are fighting plans to ban uniforms on the wards . |
| 14 | WOMEN factory workers fighting for equal pension rights had their case referred to the European Court of Justice yesterday . |
| 15 | Equally , litigation practitioners looking for early rights of audience in the higher courts have shown remarkable tolerance of the delays necessarily involved in trying to secure the same rights for solicitors in commerce , industry and the public service . |
| 16 | There were cars in the streets and brash , noisy journalists crowded round hotel bars competing for sensational stories to wire to their papers . |
| 17 | A European Court of Justice ruling on July 21 was seen as opening up the possibility of EC citizens applying for social security benefits in the United Kingdom even though they lived outside the UK . |
| 18 | In a separate development , BR yesterday contacted the four rail unions asking for urgent talks on a review of pay and working practices in its signalling and telecommunications division . |
| 19 | There were very few well-dressed citizens , most of the denizens of the alleyways being rogues and villains ; tinkers , trying to sell without permission from the Guilds , professional beggars , and rat-faced slum dwellers looking for easy prey . |
| 20 | Between January and June agreements providing for visa-free travel were signed with Austria , Finland , West Germany and Italy . |