Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARE HOTELIERS GEARING UP FOR THE NEW EC FIRE SAFETY DIRECTIVE ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's probably only one of the local kids sneaking in for a look around , ’ Jessamy tried to reassure herself . |
| 3 | COMPUTER scientists and entrepreneurs are worried that delays by the British government in responding to the Alvey report on advanced information technology may be harming Britain 's chances of joining an elite of computerised nations lining up for the 1990s . |
| 4 | More innovatively , companies signing up for the programme will be legally committed to going through a conciliation process to sort out unforeseen interoperability problems . |
| 5 | As a former Cabinet minister , George Younger is entitled to ennoblement in the Dissolution Honours , but with 10 fellow Conservatives queuing up for the Lords John Major may decide that Younger should be the one to miss out . |
| 6 | He spent 1990 watching his paymasters demolish the investment bank that he had spent the previous seven years building up for the Pru 's assault on Wall Street . |
| 7 | ‘ Three weeks sitting in for the regular breakfast show jock on a commercial station there , while he takes over your show here . |
| 8 | The company spent some two years casting around for a successor to its best-selling computer and finally came up with a machine called Lisa named after the daughter of the company 's founder Steve Jobs . |
| 9 | Customers signing up for the Electronic Interchange With Standard Edifact , EIWSE , service will receive their electronic phone billing into either the electronic mailbox or , if they have X400 service , directly into their computers , Raes said . |
| 10 | THE death of a father-of-four , mown down as he cycled home from the shops , has brought tragic memories flooding back for a young mother . |
| 11 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 12 | And seen gillies going out for the Stenness Hotel s with sailing boats , I 've seen eight leaving there in the morning I went to school . |
| 13 | Gliders lining up for a competition launch |
| 14 | After that , a top executive tends to get stale , in Pearce 's opinion , because ‘ you 're seeing the same problems coming up for the second , third or even fourth time and you begin to think you 've done it all before . |
| 15 | So we 'll have groups of teams coming along for an hour at a time and hopefully we 'll , you know , keep the impetus going through the day by doing that . |
| 16 | Film scripts specified free-spirited nymphets in mini-skirts , and there were younger actresses with more malleable identities queuing up for the parts . |
| 17 | It may involve additional cost if you 're going to have the er chefs coming in for a Saturday . |
| 18 | We 'd get Cypriot narcotics cops stopping by for a free cup of coffee or to make a call to their relatives in England on Uncle Sam 's nickel . |
| 19 | I looked hungrily around , drinking in the sights of London : the beaver hats , lined with green velvet , of the wealthy merchants , the shabby caps of the artisans and , above all , the ornate head-dresses covered in clouds of gauze of the court ladies stepping out for a morning 's shopping . |
| 20 | Crowds waited outside the venue to catch a glimpse of pop stars turning up for the awards ceremony , being televised on ITV by Carlton tonight . |
| 21 | There were at least two world champions lining up for the start and many seasoned and experienced drivers . |
| 22 | Frank was mentioned as one of the players lining up for the attacker spot — but Olsen chose Mjelde from our local league — top scorer this year in Norway — for the reserve spot after Fjortoft . |
| 23 | And he said , ‘ What entered your head anyway , to be marrying a foreign woman when there 's hundreds of thousands of good Irish women going round with their tongues hanging out for a husband . ’ |
| 24 | There are countless individual stories encapsulated in the photographs of migrant workers arriving at Continental stations or commuters pouring into the London termini , of the Jews being herded on to trains headed for the death-camps , or of armies departing for half a dozen different wars — the brave , cheerful , youthful faces of a nation 's young men heading off for the rendezvous with destiny . |
| 25 | Over the years , the numbers turning out for the clash have dwindled and the match is now normally 18 a-side . |
| 26 | Certainly the constant parade of young men calling round for a chat and tea , if there was any , or to take the girls out for the evening were friends who happened to be boys . |
| 27 | The heating pipes coming through for the the central heating and the hot water . |
| 28 | She sat again at the dinner table and saw in the candlelight Hilary Robarts 's dark , discontented eyes staring intently at Alex Mair ; watched the planes of Miles Lessingham 's face fitfully lit by the leaping flames of the fire , saw his long-fingered hands reaching down for the bottle of claret , heard again that measured rather high voice speaking the unspeakable . |
| 29 | But by portraying those of us who have sought conductive education for our children as unthinking lemmings dashing off for a dose of Hungarian miracle water , Dr Oliver 's polemic does us — and conductive education — less than justice . |
| 30 | For Scottish students staying on for a sixth year , a CSYS course ( if available ) , will provide an excellent introduction to the kind of study undertaken at university . |