Example sentences of "[v-ing] for a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commonly , sales forecasting for a period of up to one year ahead is differentiated from sales and market forecasting for longer periods . |
| 2 | There are over 600 multinationals in a ‘ billion-dollar-club ’ and a host of smaller fry all competing for a share of the market . |
| 3 | Competition in the British market for water today is a reality with some forty plus rivals complet competing for a share in this growth area . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 5 | Let us now consider the requirements of a multiprogramming system , where we have a number of programs occupying main storage and competing for an allocation of time on the processor . |
| 6 | ‘ So , perhaps a really cynical person would conjecture that you need the money that caddying for a golfer like Harley , who is obviously back in form and on the verge of some big wins and big money , would bring . |
| 7 | While his friends were earning their few pennies for a week 's work as paper-boys and butcher 's assistants , Dave was caddying for a round at Hollinwell , the championship course near his home . |
| 8 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His mouth opened slightly , her tongue touched his upper lip once , then slipped away again ; she kissed him quickly on the cheek and turned , walked to a doorway , fumbling for a key in a small purse she took from her old fur coat . |
| 11 | That is why Alan Yentob , controller of BBC1 , felt duty bound to reply , publicly apologising for an episode of Casualty which featured a riot . |
| 12 | Representatives of 11 Somali factions meeting in Bahr Dar in north-western Ethiopia on June 6 reached an accord , mediated by Ethiopian government representatives , allowing for a ceasefire to be implemented with the help of the UN and other international organizations . |
| 13 | You are now equipped to play the game : what is the ideal position for each of these machines allowing for you , the craftsman , to work around them and allowing for a board of a chosen dimension to go across that production set-up ? |
| 14 | Allowing for a level of coding somewhere between the highly specific and detailed CODOT scheme and that of OPCS , in which are sometimes to be found rather heterogeneous categories . |
| 15 | These rosy expectations were not , however , to be fulfilled and even allowing for a degree of misfortune , Carter 's record of achievement as president was slim . |
| 16 | Allowing for a degree of non-anomalous unusualness in the sentences ( such sequences are , for various reasons , rather difficult to construct ) it seems that we have got from John 's mouth to the mouth of the river without encountering zeugmatic incompatibility . |
| 17 | ( 1988 , Chapter 6 ) address these issues , suggesting that pension rights should be jointly held by husband and wife for the duration of the marriage , allowing for a split on divorce . |
| 18 | While the really poor live in privately-owned , deteriorating homes — and about 90 per cent of the houses in Britain are still privately-owned — the new council houses are occupied by those who will pay up to twice or three times as much in rent , even after allowing for a subsidy of at least 8s. 6d. a week , and often far more , out of the general rates and taxes . |
| 19 | In future it is hoped that information will be posted at the nearest car parks , as well as at the crag , allowing for a change of plan before walking to the climbs ! |
| 20 | Even allowing for a difference in the extent of lateralisation of executive aspects of speech , revealed by the Wada test , and receptive aspects , tapped by the dichotic listening technique , this figure of IS per cent is too high to accord with the evidence from brain damaged populations . |
| 21 | Allowing for a margin of error in fuel reserves , and for a certain degree of defensive manoeuvring to avoid missile sites and aircraft intercepts , 2000 miles was the maximum distance the Foxbat could cover without re-fuelling . |
| 22 | In a broad programme of work , a variety of methods or types of activity can be reasonably expected ; planning will begin to lay out the sequence in increasing detail , even when allowing for a number of variant paths or for the switching of the course according to observed student response : improvisation or student decision-making works best when possibilities have been foreseen and prepared for . |
| 23 | The findings also reportedly indicate that even Europeans , who are judged to be two to three times more interested in Unix than Americans , reject the notion of Unix on the desktop , reckoning MS-DOS and Windows are sufficient , allowing for a move to NT where necessary down the road . |
| 24 | The strips are simply nailed and glued to the roof , allowing for an overlap between layers . |
| 25 | Support for students will rise by £134 million in the next three years , allowing for an increase of 6,000 students next year and 8,000 in 1991-92 . |
| 26 | In October parliament approved a revision of the 1990 budget , allowing for an increase in income from $252,000,000 to $285,000,000 and in expenditure from $300,000,000 to $347,000,000 . |
| 27 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 28 | From the statement " It has been raining for an hour in Chicago " , for example , we are able to infer , using our knowledge of the real world , that the streets of Chicago are wet . |
| 29 | Moreover , just as the connection between certain looks and shame is one which we learn solely by experience , ‘ without which … we should no more have taken blushing for a sign of shame than of gladness ’ , so is the connection between certain visual experiences , and distance and size . |
| 30 | Indeed , Sally O'Brien 's has built up a reputation as an excellent venue , catering for a variety of musical tastes and keeping Omagh to the forefront when it comes to live music . |