Example sentences of "[noun] were [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ari Vatanen has come second and Colin McRae sixth … a good performance … but the British fans were hoping for more as Tim Russon now reports |
| 2 | Opposition parties were calling for fresh elections , and criticizing President Slobodan Milosevic for his handling of the military campaign . |
| 3 | Maybe scum gangs were uniting for some big upward raid , eh ? |
| 4 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 5 | The French , for their part , were interested only in American help to achieve some honourable compromise in Indo-China , whereas the militants in Washington were looking for combined military action to inflict a decisive defeat on the communists . |
| 6 | The decision followed months of intense lobbying fuelled by reports that black African countries were pressing for one of their candidates , notably the former Finance Minister of Zimbabwe , Bernard Chidzero , as the next UN Secretary-General . |
| 7 | In the mid-Eighties , when Bacons were selling for half a million dollars , he did it again by selling a Bacon Pope belonging to Dufferin for over $1 million . |
| 8 | The song reminded me of my ex-wife , only the group were trying for wistful melancholy and my associations were screaming nightmare . |
| 9 | A rise in numbers would by itself help to explain why the upper classes were looking for new and wider choice of occupation ; it does not go far towards explaining the popularity of Cîteaux . |
| 10 | Room maids told us guests were asking for lighter duvets , and suggested we improve signs as guests were constantly asking for directions . |
| 11 | And the big fish were heading for deep water . |
| 12 | About the same time TWW were looking for two journalists Ron Evans , a former journalist with the Empire News and the Sunday Times , had already joined the television company and he came over to Thomson House to check me out . |
| 13 | He and his wife were going for two months . |
| 14 | The established family farms were , mostly , already profitable and the farmers were looking for sufficient income to provide their families with a reasonable standard of living plus sufficient capital to re-invest in the farm and provide for retirement . |
| 15 | Despite the reported ‘ need to hear the voice of the Führer again ’ , Hitler 's traditional speech on 30 January 1942 , the anniversary of the ‘ seizure of power ’ , left some feelings of disappointment , since people were looking for comforting or encouraging words about the state of the war in the east and not for just another stereotype repetition of the Nazi Party 's glorious history . |
| 16 | It happened as bride Cathy and her sister Andree from Holywood were going for some official pictures for their album . |
| 17 | The UAE was reported to have reacted in a low-key manner to the Iranian takeover , coming as it did at a time when the Gulf states were hoping for improved relations with Iran . |
| 18 | Six of the ‘ Quins were missing for various reasons . |
| 19 | The anthropometric measures were missing for 11 women . |
| 20 | Bystanders said police were hunting for further devices , bringing traffic to a standstill as police sealed off the area . |
| 21 | Real wages were rising for those in , work , and living standards improved markedly in the Midlands and the South-East , serving both to diminish the political impact of unemployment and to increase the differentiation of the country . |
| 22 | In the academic year 1980–1 , for example , 140,000 students were registered on 1,703 taught CNAA courses and in the same year first degree courses were catering for 123,229 students , representing a rise of 6.2 per cent compared with the previous year . |
| 23 | He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops . |
| 24 | Nevertheless by 19 July both sides were looking for foreign help . |
| 25 | It was not that both sides were preparing for some future war to deter the other side . |
| 26 | No market research informed Laura that women were thirsting for long dresses which they could not find . |
| 27 | Harmonization proved impossible : the two Services were looking for two quite different aircraft . |
| 28 | Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home . |
| 29 | Students funded by SERC were working for 133 different employers . |