Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For their part the Brazilians want to play British oppositon to remind themselves of what it feels like to be searching for the ball in the air for much of the game . |
| 2 | He has among his own ranks the formidable figure of Michael Hesletine , understood to be lobbing for the head of a super ministry of Environment and Industry , in a slimmed down Cabinet . |
| 3 | It enables both countries to augment their own dominant positions within the Community while pretending to be acting for the sake of ‘ Europe ’ . |
| 4 | He had always claimed to be acting for the best ; not selfishly , but for all men , as the great sage Confucius had said a ruler should act . |
| 5 | It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause . |
| 6 | It is vital , however , that they are able to compete on equal terms , and to achieve this there will need to be funding for the extra costs of clinical research . |
| 7 | You are likely to be looking for the relation between the variable part of the text ( called the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE because you are manipulating it by making changes ) and the variation in the response of the reader ( called the DEPENDENT VARIABLE , because it depends on the variation , or changes , made to the text ) . |
| 8 | However , morally speaking , the nature of these states can not be seen to be catering for the betterment of the broad masses but the consolidation of a ruling groups power . |
| 9 | Both Virgin and Thorn EMI are thought to be vying for the lucrative Jobete in Detroit , which controls the publishing rights to a catalogue of 15,000 Motown titles . |
| 10 | So , when an Ikhwan ( widely understood to be fronting for the Amiri secretary ) proposed to make a grant to a Tibbu , ‘ all Zuwaya ’ , including at least some Awlad Amira , protested . |
| 11 | And then they 'd throw you to whatever man happened to be passing for the money you 'd earn for them . ’ |
| 12 | It is a symptom of sociology 's low status as a scientific discipline that so many researchers still seem to be seeking for the philosophers ' stone , or seeking status by attempting to theorize beyond their means . |
| 13 | In negotiating this or that pay increase , they must be supposed to be settling for the best terms they can get in all the circumstances of the negotiation . |
| 14 | These authors find empirical support to be lacking for the basic postulates of the theory which Levy and Reid derived from their original observations . |
| 15 | Although there is some truth in this relative deprivation argument , it is equally important to note that the pains of imprisonment are mitigated by pleasant recollections : to be doing ‘ a lot of bird ’ without having lived well seems far more futile and absurd that to be paying for the rich fruits that crime has already brought . |
| 16 | And I was very worried because the lady that was going to be paying for the job was just down there and if we were n't careful we were going to kill her with the wardrobe . |
| 17 | Previous attempts to sell the Bowl have failed but now an Anglo American consortium is believed to be bidding for the lease . |
| 18 | Though ‘ LSI ’ bombed with them , the college crowd already seem to be going for the more obviously British routines of ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ . |
| 19 | He hopes to be challenging for the first team by Christmas . |
| 20 | Another figure of the Duvalier regime , Claude Raymond , a former general , generally held to be behind the disruption of the November 1987 elections [ see pp. 35697-98 ] , was also reported to be campaigning for the presidency , despite a constitutional ban on " notorious Duvalierists " . |
| 21 | With its main shareholders , M&G , a unit-trust group , which owns 6.9% , and the Kuwait Investment Office ( 10% ) , already nursing losses , Midland seems likely to be heading for the altar before long . |
| 22 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 23 | AS The Milk Race cavalcade left Liverpool today , Chris Lillywhite looked to be heading for the Banana team 's third race victory in four years . |
| 24 | Duff , who won the title when representing Auchinleck back in 1988 , but now resident in England and representing his new country , looked to be heading for the quarter-finals when he opened up a 6-1 final-set lead over Dennis Catunarich . |
| 25 | His eyes are a little protuberant , and his lips are set in a faint smile , so that as he leans forward against the wheel , gazing straight ahead through the windscreen , he seems to be waiting for the green light with eagerness . |
| 26 | They often claim to be working for the council and sometimes have ‘ road maintenance ’ painted on the side of their lorries . |
| 27 | Windeler said , ‘ What if he turns out to be working for the Americans ? ’ |
| 28 | A Supreme Court judge , Fabiola Borrero , from the western city of Cali , was shot dead on Sept. 22 by gunmen believed to be working for the Cali drug cartel . |
| 29 | At a recent conference of educational psychologists in Scotland I was foolish enough ( again ) to be arguing for the practical importance of such grand-sounding notions as idealism and commitment . |
| 30 | Four British manufacturers are believed to be fighting for the contract to supply Virgin with machines . |