Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I will grant you that it beats filing for the Inland Revenue , it is a suitcase existence and no matter how glamorous the location of the meeting we very rarely see beyond the airport , the hotel and the stadium . |
| 2 | I 'm not waiting , bother waiting for the desired |
| 3 | You should n't even consider buying for the new season until you 've consulted our survey , compiled by Steven Seaton . |
| 4 | Major deals over the past two years have included leasing for the new ethylene cracker ( a type of refinery ) for BP at Grangemouth , at that time thought to be the largest leasing deal in Britain , a £180m long-term facility to North West Water to finance major infrastructure projects , and a £75m deal with Fujitsu Microelectronics to fund investment in semiconductor equipment at its factory at Newton Aycliffe , County Durham . |
| 5 | to your Council did I knock on the door and say standing for the Liberal Democrats , they said well we 're not sure it 's the way we are going to vote for you , we may vote for somebody else . |
| 6 | The electricity generated in this new hydro-electric scheme will be sold to the National Grid ; power to service the site and to provide floodlighting for the spectacular gorge and falls will also be produced by what will be one of the largest electricity-generating waterwheels in Europe . |
| 7 | To maintain continuity , the paper suggests that firms should establish transitional arrangements for the handover : these could include arranging for the new partner to work on the audit team beforehand , and ensuring that other senior staff do not change in the same year . |
| 8 | The first elected council contained such active and progressive members as Sidney Webb , eager to encourage housebuilding for the working classes . |
| 9 | He found underpricing for the first third of his data period , and overpricing for the remainder . |
| 10 | In the New Testament Jesus uses two images to convey God 's extravagant concern for the world : one is the shepherd who risks the rest of the flock in order to go searching for the lost sheep ; the other is the woman who turns a house upside down looking for lost coins . |
| 11 | For a second she felt as he must have felt waiting for the glowing metal to eat into the skin . |
| 12 | France 's Channel 5 — La Cinq — abandoned its fight to survive just as the Independent Broadcasting Authority opened bidding for the new British station with a warning of the commercial risk . |
| 13 | It means , do n't keep wishing for the next day , or the next week , or month , or year , or your life goes too fast . |
| 14 | WINDSOR Castle 's burned-out state rooms will be opened to the public next month in an effort to win backing for the troubled royals and help boost the town 's ailing tourist trade . |
| 15 | On June 22 , 1989 , a new law was ratified providing for the public execution of drug traffickers and dealers as well as of cultivators of plants used for drug production . |
| 16 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 17 | Where sounds of humanity are muffled by the absorbent tranquillity , where vegetative abundance struggles in mysterious thickets and leaf-thatched tunnels , and moss-veiled statues stand transfixed listening for the echoing revelry of a party that ended centuries ago . |
| 18 | German units were now leaving Sicily in a steady trickle as the Luftwaffe began regrouping for the forthcoming attack on Russia . |
| 19 | Brian Horton says that Joey is a proven scorer … he 's scored goals in the youth team … the reserves and hopefully keeps scoring for the first team … he 's exciting … and people love to watch wingers … |
| 20 | Courtship is not all smooth going for the young male . |
| 21 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 22 | Villa-Flotilla is the safest way to sample cruising for the first time . |
| 23 | With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year . |
| 24 | These costs are paid straight into the Legal Aid Fund and go to defray the actual costs of the action in the accounts rendered to the Fund by solicitors and counsel acting for the assisted party . |
| 25 | Too much energy can be spent looking for the perfect idea when being pragmatic and settling for a satisfactory solution is best . |
| 26 | Many hours were taken up in the dark recesses of the developing room at Oxford 's photography workshop ; even more spent waiting for the precise moment to open the shutter . |
| 27 | His sojourn with the UDC is suggestive of the role played by that organization in maintaining a basis of grass roots campaigning activity at a time when the official Labour Party had abandoned electioneering for the patriotic excesses of all-party recruiting platforms . |
| 28 | Other seminar highlights included Managing for the Nineties , led by Sir John Harvey-Jones . |
| 29 | ‘ I knew right away we 'd have to start preparing for the next one , ’ he told the boys , who were the only ones who 'd listen to him by then , in the home at any rate . |
| 30 | Several of the older students with records of political activism , started campaigning for the local elections in September . |