Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hot water cylinder is , in fact , used as the ‘ heat sink ’ for many solid fuel boiler systems allowing somewhere for excess heat to be dissipated ( sometimes a bathroom towel rail is used for the same purpose ) . |
| 2 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 3 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 4 | The unexplained gap between the pay of 26-year-old men and women was 51 per cent allowing only for educational background and employment experience , or 38 per cent allowing also for information on job characteristics . |
| 5 | CYCLING organisations in Wales are gearing up for National Bike Week , which begins on Saturday . |
| 6 | ULSTER spacers have been shy about signing up for inter-galactic travel . |
| 7 | To be worth singling out for special attention , a semantic relation needs to be at least systematic , in the sense that it recurs in a number of pairs or sets of related lexical units ( it will be recalled that the expression lexical unit is used to refer to a lexical form together with a single distinguished sense ) . |
| 8 | Lancaster 's objections to the regime , however , were concerned just as much with domestic affairs : he criticized the queen for her greed and acquisitiveness , singling out for special mention her appropriation of the lordship of Pontefract which had been held by Earl Thomas in right of his wife , He complained that the treasure left by Edward II had been ‘ wastede and born away withouten the wille of Kyng Edwarde his sone , in destruccioun of him and of his folk ’ , and proposed that Mortimer ‘ shouldd dwelle oppon his owen landes ’ . |
| 9 | It was originally founded as the Deaf Friends ' Club for the oral deaf who desired to have the opportunity of meeting together for social intercourse and mutual improvement . |
| 10 | She had just emerged to frown at the Manport , wearing a plain dark coverall that made no concession to dressing up for important company . |
| 11 | prospecting ( looking out for new selling opportunities ) |
| 12 | This applies also to the British Council , our arm of cultural diplomacy , which is facing unprecedented demands from the newly liberated countries which are looking out for English language teachers . |
| 13 | But he was advised to start looking around for other work . |
| 14 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 15 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 16 | Now , she wondered if this very languor , passing almost for bad health , did not protect her ? |
| 17 | Is a search still going on for missing material ? |
| 18 | I said , well she 's er she 's going in for medical secretary . |
| 19 | The government ended up both being unpopular and paying more for local government . |
| 20 | We 're going mainly for wild water buffalo , banteng and seladang , " said the senator , his resonant Southern drawl sounding loud in the stillness that lay over the river . |
| 21 | In the diary Mr Springhall reports how the emigrants ' luggage was searched going aboard for intoxicating liquor , and how the ‘ stress of weather ’ kept the ship in port before before setting sail . |
| 22 | Some church leaders ( and lay people ) are already doing it regularly — guiding individuals in their praying , Bible reading , daily living — others , already over-busy , might well groan at the thought of the faithful queueing up for individual direction . |
| 23 | Long before the century closed , pressures were building up for constitutional change and for more profound changes in the social and economic system itself . |
| 24 | She was holding on for dear life , leaning into him , lifting on tiptoe so that he could gather her close , hold her tightly in his arms , while his tongue slipped into her mouth , while his hand swept up her ribs and lightly cupped her breast … |
| 25 | It was in this way that Maurice , with the two of them clinging on for dear life , put out on the tide . |
| 26 | Buying just for financial gain should be despised . |
| 27 | Snuffling around for untapped niche markets , Unipalm Ltd , based in Cambridge , has come up with Mail-it , a Microsoft Windows-to-Unix connectivity E-mail package . |
| 28 | And it 's now , the C E C is now , and the General Secretary is now , rightly so , calling loudly for proper accountability from all levels , er of the Party organization . |
| 29 | If you are aiming almost for pure comedy , then your detective will need only the smallest core of toughness or commonsense . |
| 30 | In many places the Trust is resisting the urge automatically to replant and is aiming instead for natural regeneration by creating the right conditions for species such as birch , ash and beech to self-seed . |