Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | most days you 'll find Tony Meek racing his dogs at the Oxford stadium … not tonight … because the speedway machines are there … its a gala night … the top twenty riders from the second division are racing for the Service Master Trophy … |
| 2 | HOUSE builders in the North West are looking for the Government to do more to stimulate sales and economic growth . |
| 3 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 4 | The Association is paying for the work , expected to cost in the region of £5,500 ( $9,600 ) from donations worldwide and has also launched an appeal for funds to restore the whole altar . |
| 5 | Keegan 's club is building for the future on the back of 30,000 gates every home match , but the Newcastle boss refuses to discuss transfer targets and would n't comment on the Ferdinand situation yesterday . |
| 6 | The Commerce Department is looking for the book market to expand markedly up to 1997 , achieving average annual growth rated of 3.5% in constant dollars throughout the period . |
| 7 | The second storyline is going for the wider market , and some might argue , a little too near-the-knuckle for such an early evening show . |
| 8 | Now the tobacco industry is going for the slightly more subtle form of advertising which is sponsorship . |
| 9 | Labour is working for the community |
| 10 | Today the Gloucestershire Echo was preparing for the worst . |
| 11 | The horse was racing for the first time for Epsom trainer Roger Ingram having previously run in Ireland for Joanna Morgan . |
| 12 | Those in work are paying for the pensions of those past retirement age at the current time , rather than for their own pensions in the future . |
| 13 | Relatives of a ninety-one year old widow left battered in her own home are pleading for the public to help catch her attacker . |
| 14 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 15 | Reports claimed that demonstrators in the south were calling for the establishment of an Islamic government in Iraq headed by Hakim . |
| 16 | He was talking about having her portrait painted : you do n't do that if your marriage is heading for the rocks . ’ |
| 17 | The government is committed to closing the plant by the end of this year , but the local nuclear lobby is pressing for the deadline to be extended , arguing that it is dangerous to close a reactor down quickly . |
| 18 | But the team that plays the Dutch is playing for the future — for the 1992 European finals . ’ |
| 19 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 20 | Law 's feeling for the sense of the party was less sure than usual in 1916 but , once certain of the party feeling and the national interest , he did not waver in his demand for a different sort of government . |
| 21 | At a radius r the amount of current enclosed is ( r/a ) 2I , hence the magnetic field from Ampère 's law is yielding for the flux per unit length inside the material |
| 22 | Now the 37-year-old Liverpudlian is preparing for the sell out run of the stage play Alfie at Bolton 's Octagon Theatre . |
| 23 | Bettelheim and Zelan suggest that the child 's feeling for the event and for language was so strong that she was able to invent a new word spontaneously . |
| 24 | The most difficult issue is providing for the costs of private medical care in retirement . |
| 25 | Now the council is waiting for the car parks firm to solve the crash barrier problem . |
| 26 | The National Gallery is paying for the conservation of the painting . |
| 27 | But the Queen , horrified to learn that her favourite son 's marriage was heading for the rocks , could not utter the words of comfort the agonised redhead most needed to hear . |
| 28 | They were even more uncomfortable when their father entered with Rose just as the full hall was waiting for the curtain to go up . |
| 29 | As early as 1929 , Herbert Morrison of the London County Council was pressing for the L.C.C . |
| 30 | At yet other times he would say ‘ No ’ just as the child was reaching for the attractive toy . |