Example sentences of "[adj] people [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some very interesting people are coming for the weekend . ’ |
| 2 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 3 | Erm ah some people were looking for you earlier . |
| 4 | Times may be hard in those places , but note how few people are clamouring for a return to the let's-stay-poor-together socialism of the past . |
| 5 | It says around 300 people are waiting for such accommodation equivalent to ten new schemes . |
| 6 | Such people are looking for help , not hindrance , from the Government . |
| 7 | He became tremendously emotional and … compelling in his language … about the need to save Latin America , to save freedom , that these people were sacrificing for America and for freedom all over the world . ’ |
| 8 | Well , while two hundred thousand people are heading for Silverstone , another forty thousand are expected at RAF Brize Norton . |
| 9 | We have the land and the right planning framework to create new communities that do offer the sorts of housing and living conditions that many people are looking for . |
| 10 | I find many people are looking for serviceable fabrics and colours they will not tire from quickly . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're not at a checkpoint at the moment , ’ says Spill , ‘ but the P5 will be there before we reach the next one … and many people are waiting for the P5 before deciding whether to go to the R4000 . |
| 12 | With the uncertainty about oil prices and the expense of both gas and electricity , many people are opting for wood-burning stoves These have long been a favourite in Northern Europe and America , and they can be amazingly efficient in heating most of the house , quite apart from being decorative . |
| 13 | Full employment , competition between employers for labour and high levels of labour turnover might mean that many people are working for only a short time in any particular job . |
| 14 | Up the road at Selfridges 500 people were waiting for the doors to open . |
| 15 | And a handful of critics is beginning to wonder whether Ireland has not concentrated a little too hard on attracting inward investors at the expense of building a strong home-grown computer and electronics industry : after all , the policy of rallying all centres of higher education to turn out highly-skilled hardware and software engineers has been a great success , but should n't more of those people be working for Irish companies ? |
| 16 | and more and more and more people are looking for experience , they 're looking for vocations , they 're looking for er the sort of attributes which , you know , are n't actually overflowing when you 're unemployed in Wolverhampton |
| 17 | During the quarter ending December 1991 , 923 people were working for the council . |
| 18 | There were many then and there have been many since who believed the Rosenbergs were victims of an FBI frame-up but the American people were baying for scapegoats , not least for the grave reverses in Korea . |
| 19 | However I managed to find Mr Jaggers ' office , noticing that other people were waiting for the great man too . |
| 20 | More than 500,000 people were voting for the first time . |
| 21 | A neighbor summoned the owner from Dorset and told her it was a scandal that her house should be vacant when young people were looking for accommodation , so she let the house to us . |
| 22 | Unknown to him , two people were waiting for him , ’ the lawyer said . |
| 23 | FOUR people are standing for the chairmanship of the Scottish Liberal Democrats . |
| 24 | A party of physically handicapped people are heading for the sun of Majorca later this month on a holiday organised by Cleveland County Council social services . |
| 25 | THE Property Exchange , a new company publishing a national directory of people who want to swap homes rather than sell them ( if the properties have different values , one party pays the other the difference ) says that so far most people are looking for smaller homes . |
| 26 | ‘ Most people are going for much more conservative finance , ’ says Roger Brooke , chairman of Candover Investments , which has a reputation for large buyouts . |
| 27 | Because a win here would catapult her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame , most people were shouting for Sheehan . |