Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . ) |
| 2 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 3 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 4 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 5 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
| 6 | Suddenly he is more relaxed and confident and those horrible little worms of self-doubt which are perpetually burrowing away in a golfer 's head are banished for a few holes , anyway . |
| 7 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 8 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 9 | Two seats out of three have been won for no more than 42.5% of the votes , and two out of four for only 24.2% . |
| 10 | Three Samoans who played in the World Cup — Tagaloa , Bunce and Steve Bachop — have just been picked for the All Black trials . |
| 11 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 12 | To this extent we could say that the cultural materialists re-assert a form of reflection theory , where history has become a mirror in which contemporary political priorities have been substituted for the former certain ground of Marxist analysis . |
| 13 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 14 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 15 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 16 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 17 | Now we learn that tampons are not classed as medical appliances and therefore not subject to the same stringent government legislation on manufacture and sterility which applies to say condoms which when you come to think about it are destined for the same anatomical region . |
| 18 | After all , we are looking for the same thing . ’ |
| 19 | But he stressed that no formal approach had been made for the former football ground . |
| 20 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 21 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 22 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 23 | and if you 're coming for a few days you 've , you 've bag carrying and all this in the business |
| 24 | We 've got a ladies luncheon in Glasgow for four hundred and the organiser , Ruth the chair of Glasgow branch , is being helped by two ladies from the business community erm Linda from the BAFTA award and Tessa who has her own marketing company , so we 're hoping to sort of pull in a lot of people from that erm Judy the chair of Scottish council , is yet again holding her Charlotte Square ball erm , this was very , very successful two years ago , I think you know erm and we 're hoping for the same success erm , we are very lucky that the Royal Highland Show has chosen us to be er the charity this year for the gala preview of the show erm this is er for three hundred people , a champagne reception erm sponsored by the Bank of Scotland , so that you go and see the flowers before the show opens the next day . |
| 25 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 26 | Where employees are concerned , a minimum of 2,000 has been used for the same reason . |
| 27 | Data are shown for the same mice as in a . |
| 28 | These institutions are produced for the same purpose as neuroses are by the individual ; they are collective solutions for the problem of defence against unsatisfied wishes . |
| 29 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |
| 30 | Here 's another new model from guy who has been riding for the same big-time company for literally eons . |