Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [v-ing] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new method involves candidates literally wrestling for power in a knockout tournament . |
| 2 | There were so many loose ends , so many clients still waiting for attention , and she could not let them down . |
| 3 | But the famous Bongs ! will have a hollow ring for millions of soccer fans anxiously waiting for news of their teams . |
| 4 | In LFAs , grants would be available for farmers not qualifying for farm investment aids . |
| 5 | The male is now primarily involved in breaking up quarrels between females and in repelling approaches by other males either bidding for access to the harem through the formation of a two-male team or , more dangerously , seeking a fight for total replacement . |
| 6 | Among the different groups now contending for influence , the most important are the democratic reformers , the men and women who stood in recent local elections on platforms that broadly advocated multi-party politics and bolder economic change . |
| 7 | Cash help for surgeons still waiting for keyhole training . |
| 8 | We cut off down through a sloping jumble of gritstone boulders , rabbits everywhere starting for cover , all thankfully too fast for Bill or Eddy . |
| 9 | His public pronouncements are unequivocal in this respect , and although it is clearly not possible to accept such public pronouncements as the definitive expression of a man 's innermost beliefs and convictions , and although it is also evidently the case that to be published in L'Humanite and Ce Soir inevitably necessitates obedience to the party line , nonetheless the consistency and vigour with which Nizan presented an entirely positive view of developments within the Soviet Union are an instructive antidote to those critics desperately searching for evidence of Nizan 's growing anti-Stalinism/anti-communism during this period . |
| 10 | Perestroika is struggling ; there are groups everywhere clamouring for independence . |
| 11 | If our democracy is to retain popular support and respect , it seems vital that the 60pc of voters regularly voting for change are given some opportunity to bring their ideals and values to bear on society . |
| 12 | Little boys of seven , bandy-legged as old men expertly running for cover , little girls of five or six remembering , more often than not , to pick up the new baby and last year 's baby , to grab the two-year-old , the three-year-old before they ran off too . |
| 13 | The number of Poles officially looking for work shot up from 9,600 in December to 220,000 last month . |
| 14 | Three of the four students not looking for employment and without plans to continue their studies would be travelling overseas for a time before commencing job search . |
| 15 | He came after me with his arms wide , still dazzled and dazzling in his private powerful light ; those pale jeans already crumbling for want of their accustomed humidity . |
| 16 | Ignorant at first of the monetary value of these , nine of us including the donor , spent two evenings lightheartedly preparing for sale the 500-odd prints , many by ‘ Spy ’ , ‘ Ape ’ , or ‘ Max ’ . |
| 17 | The sort of behaviour that , in sunny costa del bovver , labelled the British as a nation of hooligans and had the Tories publicly screaming for passport controls and privately considering drowning every male working class child at birth . |