Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All 3 political groups are pitching for increased spending , Labour is likely to propose a budget around £320 million , the Liberal Democrats around £314 million and the Tory group up to £310 millions , all of them well above Government guidelines of £306 million . |
| 2 | At this stage three armed groups were contending for power : ( i ) units of the Armed Forces of Liberia ( AFL ) , led by Brig. -Gen . |
| 3 | When the loyalist prisoners were campaigning for segregation from republicans ( a campaign which involved the tactic so loudly condemned when used by republicans : the hunger strike ) , DUP spokesmen were conspicuously more active than the Officials in the promotion of the prisoners , case . |
| 4 | On March 29 Moscow radio reported that almost all Ossete villages in South Ossetia had been razed by Georgian militants , and on the following day there were ominous reports from officials in North Ossetia that 12,000 armed Georgians were massing for an assault on Tskhinvali and surrounding districts still under Ossete control . |
| 5 | As England manager Geoff Cooke was naming his 30-strong squad for the five-day excursion to fitness-testing agony , the oblivious Ojomoh was packing for a Christmas holiday with his family in Nigeria . |
| 6 | A TEENAGE cyclist is fighting for his life in hospital after his bike was in collision with a car in Leicester . |
| 7 | The two nations are collaborating on several satellite projects , including the L-Sat communications craft that British Aerospace is building for a launch in 1987 . |
| 8 | Universal Pictures is hoping for the second lowest rating , PG parental guidance . |
| 9 | Mr Salmond may well be right in supposing that Labour 's Scottish high command was looking for an excuse to wriggle out of its reluctant commitments to constitutional co-operation . |
| 10 | Ari Vatanen has come second and Colin McRae sixth … a good performance … but the British fans were hoping for more as Tim Russon now reports |
| 11 | Tetbury 's one and only bookstore is n't stocking it even though nearby shops are heading for a sellout . |
| 12 | Cordless power-tools are doing for woodworkers what Fast Food did for the High Street over a decade ago . |
| 13 | An ambitious lecturer in an English Department is writing for his peer group , not for the general public . |
| 14 | A three-man delegation is heading for Geneva to deliver the Scottish FA 's appeal and Roxburgh said : ‘ It is really important to have vocal backing at Hampden , not only to stir up our guys but to put San Marino under pressure . |
| 15 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 16 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy is fighting for life in Walton Hospital today after being hit by a van as he was on his way to school . |
| 17 | A TEENAGE girl was fighting for her life last night after being kidnapped , tortured and set on fire . |
| 18 | Marine archaeology is heading for new depths with the second and perhaps most spectacular underwater shipwreck foray by a new unmanned submarine . |
| 19 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 20 | The High Elves were fighting for their homeland and the Everqueen . |
| 21 | But looking only at professional power drill sales , cordless drills are accounting for 50 per cent of the market . |
| 22 | This season 's programme resumes on January 9 and already some of the biggest clubs in English rugby are fighting for their top-class lives . |
| 23 | TOP charities are fighting for survival after a dramatic slump in donations . |
| 24 | But the Czech crisis of September 1938 , which took Europe to the brink of war , did produce the kind of public response which popular frontists were looking for to transform the political situation . |
| 25 | But the scholars agree that reliable sources are missing for the period from his arrival in Paris in 1906 until the war , and that what there is is superficial and contradictory . |
| 26 | If my right hon. Friend is looking for ways to cut down car crime , will he have a word with the producers of ’ Inspector Morse ’ . |
| 27 | It was pointed out that the Northern Ireland Council on Disability was in the process of investigating the services different agencies are providing for disabled people — not just in relation to physical access , but also in relation to access to the network of information on different services and projects which exclude disability interests . |
| 28 | Some very interesting people are coming for the weekend . ’ |
| 29 | This movement as part of the popular movement is working for a just and democratic society free from foreign intervention where the rhetoric of ‘ health for all ’ will be a reality — health as a right for all Filipinos . |
| 30 | The Scottish envoy was waiting for us , sitting on a fallen tree trunk , talking to one of his clerks who tactfully withdrew as we approached . |