Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spotted an Iraqi silkworm missile heading for the American warship , the Missouri . |
| 2 | In 1985 the USSR was Scotland 's 16th top export market accounting for £65m worth of exports . |
| 3 | When the demonstrators reached the municipal government offices , there were some scuffles with a public security unit waiting for the students . |
| 4 | Farzad Bazoft , an Iranian-born freelance journalist with British residency rights working for the London-based Sunday newspaper the Observer , was hanged as a spy in Baghdad on March 15 . |
| 5 | The days are long and difficult for 62 year old Fred Robson waiting for vital heart surgery . |
| 6 | The first is that the donations that would be made would go to charitable social service agencies providing for the same groups as statutory agencies . |
| 7 | Two old age pensioners waiting for a bus . |
| 8 | A patronising merchant banker playing for The Nortons , whom the Captain dearly wanted to dismiss for a duck , scored 112 , and his team declared at 204 for 6 . |
| 9 | It is rather like an empty filing cabinet waiting for the files to go in . |
| 10 | Questionnaires issued by Cheshire County Council 's social services department asking for financial details of those suffering with physical disabilities , mental illness and learning difficulties will also take away a person 's privacy , it is claimed . |
| 11 | White says that there are several Ethiopian graduate students working for higher degrees ; they will not now be able to work with Ethiopian material , he says , and this will be detrimental to them and the development of Ethiopian palaeontology . |
| 12 | White says that there are several Ethiopian graduate students working for higher degrees ; they will not now be able to work with Ethiopian material , he says , and this will be detrimental to them and the development of Ethiopian palaeontology . |
| 13 | New products for the UK market include the integrated accounting software package , Sterling +2 , which runs under MS-DOS and Windows and was launched in September 1992 ( CI No 2,015 ) — according to Goldman , it is ‘ selling like hot cakes ’ ; a new version of the high-end , high margin Sovereign offering for the mid-range market — although prices did not increase , total sales of the product rose 20% in real terms , which was important , Goldman said , as this market is much more valuable than Sterling 's ; and MoneyWise , which is targeted at the home and small business market and costs less than £50 . |
| 14 | Sunday best pale and awkward teenagers , unsure and toughly giggly , sit around the central dance floor waiting for the first two or three to start dancing so that the rush can begin . |
| 15 | There 's scores of Central South folk heading for Wales this weekend to ride and run in one of the great adventure races … its the annual Horse v Man V Mountain Bike challenge … local people have won the race for the last five years … and you can if the winning run or ride continues when we bring you the highlights on Monday … |
| 16 | All this is not very encouraging for those who want to see the GCSE as a single simple examination system catering for virtually all school pupils according to their needs . |
| 17 | In the same way a late Roman coin might have the mint mark LON standing for Londinium , the short-lived Roman mint at London which operated between AD286 and 326 . |
| 18 | Standard Life is one of the major equity investors in the U.K. with ordinary share investments accounting for 2% of the U.K. equity market . |
| 19 | Almost 60 Tories have signed two early day motions calling for quality to be as important as money in franchise allocation . |
| 20 | The head and individual staff members meeting for about an hour to discuss the staff member 's responsibilities and the way that the school has progressed over the year ; particular stress being placed on the successes of the staff member and in finding areas of development and growth . |
| 21 | These figures provide political ammunition to chief police officers arguing for more resources , although this is clearly a double-edged sword since the figures could be interpreted as showing the police being unable to do much about crime levels . |
| 22 | When you 're back in your wee stone cottage working for your Dr Ken from Audiology , Miguel will still be here charming the socks off the tourists , you 'll see . |
| 23 | The likes of Rak Lo , Hec Lo , Ralph Lo and G- George are among the faces who originally put Ralph Lauren on the map of Brooklyn , but they 're probably on field trips to New Jersey , Philadelphia and upstate New York looking for Lauren 's $600 down jackets and parkas . |
| 24 | A VALUABLE BREATHING SPACE Applying for an individual voluntary arrangement can banish the spectre of personal bankruptcy |
| 25 | With several leading opposition figures clamouring for his resignation and calling for a national conference , President Mobutu Sese Seko on March 15 named a new Prime Minister , Mulumba Lukeji , replacing Lunda Bululu who had resigned the day before . |
| 26 | The inaugural Grand Finals of the Cellnet Singles Challenge — an enterprising national tennis tournament set up to boost competitive singles play in this country — were staged at Basingstoke 's sumptuous Centrecourt complex at the beginning of December , with some of the country 's leading club players competing for honours . |
| 27 | WHO are more preposterous : the developers marching round southern England drawing up plans to turn some of the world 's most pleasing countryside into toytown suburbs ; or the nouveau-rural Volvo commuters looking for trendy ways to stop them ? |
| 28 | Among them are a surprising ( or is it ? ) number of aeroplanes bearing Cayman Islands letters , many of which I 'll bet have never been near that tax ; haven , the late Cap'n Bob 's pair of liquidator-awaiting , Bermudan-registered Gulfstreams , appropriately VR-BOB and VR-BRM , and a host of N-numbered machines which no doubt the Gatwick-based FAA inspectors looking for illegally operated U.S.-registered aircraft will find enlightening . |
| 29 | There was a great deal of noise and the shouts of ‘ Cover ! ’ and ‘ Touchee ! ’ were as loud as any Australian Test Team appealing for L.B.W. and often with the same lack of justification . |
| 30 | POLICE are still trying to trace the driver of a car involved in an accident which left 19-year-old Catherine Moore fighting for life . |