Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are pitching for an account , appearing on television or radio , making a significant speech , always have a company Gofer with you . |
| 2 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 3 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 4 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 5 | RTMAS has been developed for an IBM PS2/Model 80 connected via modem to software initiated by direct dial up to a sequence of traffic counters . |
| 6 | Once a specific PCR has been developed for an organism , it requires little expertise to perform the test . |
| 7 | Nostalgia buffs are gathering for an auction of items which most would have thrown away a few years ago . |
| 8 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 9 | Although she always wanted to be a writer , the theatre has claimed a lot of her energy ( she has been nominated for an Emmy and a Tony award ) . |
| 10 | Mr Depardieu had been nominated for an Oscar . |
| 11 | Now that she 's been nominated for an Oscar , it would be natural for there to be competition between them . |
| 12 | Current release Howard 's End , in which he plays an evil father , also has been nominated for an Oscar . |
| 13 | In view of the interaction between State and occupational scheme benefits , we are pressing for an approach which allows flexibility in the choice of retirement date . |
| 14 | Madougou had been blamed for an incident three weeks earlier , on Feb. 9 , when police opened fire on a demonstration in Niamey , the capital , by students protesting about the implementation of a government austerity plan for the education system , which envisaged cuts in scholarships and employment opportunities for graduates . |
| 15 | Meanwhile in Mali Tuaregs had been blamed for an attack on June 28-29 at Ménaka , in which some 20 people died . |
| 16 | The shooting ended a promising future for Nicola who had been recommended for an audition with the Royal Ballet . |
| 17 | But the Shelby County Commission has been pressing for an investigation since the 1991 book The Death of Elvis : What Really Happened , quoted doctors as saying Presley died of a drug overdose . |
| 18 | MPs had been pressing for an enquiry following the publication of a damning report on the state of school discipline by the Professional Association of Teachers in 1987 , which was given prominent coverage in the press . |
| 19 | Vokins , branded indelibly as one of the servants , had not even been considered for an invitation . |
| 20 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 21 | ‘ I bet he 's been dying for an audience , ’ Dalziel said to Pascoe . |
| 22 | The Crick Committee , which had been appointed in 1961 and reported on A Higher Award in Business Studies in 1964 , had originally been looking for an equivalent of the DipTech , but had waited for the Robbins Report before issuing its recommendations . |
| 23 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
| 24 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 25 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 26 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 27 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 28 | That is erm whenever people look for an analysis of something , here I 've been looking for an analysis of individuation , there 's a tendency to consider candidate analyses one by one , singulatum . |
| 29 | Touche Ross has been looking for an acquisition to accelerate the growth of its information technology business for some eighteen months . |
| 30 | Already they are prepared for an electron and nucleus model which would offer the same purposeful interest in salts that they clearly enjoyed in studying molecules . |