Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vickers ' Challenger 2 was competing for the contract with the United States Abrams M1A2 and France 's Leclerc . |
| 2 | Dozens of street musicians have been competing for the title of Britain 's best busker . |
| 3 | Brewers have been competing for the title of Best British Beer at the industry 's own version of the Oscars . |
| 4 | Farmworkers have been competing for the title of Britain 's best ploughman , and a place in the world finals in New Zealand . |
| 5 | Six countries — Thailand , India Pakistan , Cuba Italy and Belgium — are competing for the site of the $50 million research programme . |
| 6 | Let us suppose your agency is competing for the account of a new skin care range . |
| 7 | The parents moved in couples , greeting one another with false enthusiasm and competing for the attention of the staff . |
| 8 | On and off for I , 500 years it has been served by a community of canons ; but an eighth-century archbishop implanted monks in its precinct , and the canons failed to depart — so that from that time on for many centuries there were two communities competing for the use of the church , and from about 835 for the golden altar which is one of the supreme glories of Carolingian art . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not only are we investing in capital equipment and premises , we are also building for the future by investing in people . |
| 11 | A DRY four-hour Sunday drive from Cork to Tullermeny , a small village 70 miles from Dublin , sees Bono apologising for the lack of splendour in the unceasing and somehow dainty countryscape . |
| 12 | The goodwill in this case maybe calculated on two to three years ' purchase of so-called absolute net profit ( ie net profit after allowing for the salary of a fully-qualified manager for each shop ) . |
| 13 | Thus all references to sets of conditions are to be understood as allowing for the possibility of one-member sets . |
| 14 | The van der Waals equation is where a is a constant which corrects for the attractive forces between gas molecules and b is a constant which corrects the volume of the gas by allowing for the part of the volume occupied by the gas molecules . |
| 15 | Punjab had been under president 's rule since May 1987 and its assembly , suspended at that time , had been dissolved in March 1988 [ see p. 36692 for constitutional amendment passed at that time allowing for the continuation of president 's rule for three years ] . |
| 16 | From the outlet , fit the first bracket 1m along , against the string line ( allowing for the thickness of the gutter ) and fit the first length of guttering to the outlet and the supporting bracket . |
| 17 | When you come to think about it , how amazing it is that a singer whose recording career lasted only seven years ( where Decca is concerned ) could produce enough material to fill ten CDs even allowing for the addition of much off-the-air material , and excluding Das Lied von der Erde , the Klemperer Kindertotenlieder and Mahler 's Second , and Brahms 's Liebesliederwalzer , the last three just issued on three further discs in Decca 's Historic series . |
| 18 | Even allowing for the cost of the curtain tape and cotton required , I calculated that I would be overcharged by £80 . |
| 19 | The parliament of the Czech Lands in mid-April approved a new restitution law allowing for the return of property in the Czech Lands confiscated between 1945 and 1948 . |
| 20 | But the second part of the subsection , which seeks to reproduce the essence of the previous law — allowing for the substitution of ‘ violence ’ in place of ‘ breach of the peace ’ — is potentially confusing , because it contains both subjective and objective requirements as alternatives . |
| 21 | Its objectives were to oversee a ceasefire and to bring to an end the civil war , thereby allowing for the formation of an interim government and the holding of free elections . |
| 22 | ‘ Even allowing for the journey from the airport , you ought to have been here long before now . |
| 23 | Chief among the proposals was a clause allowing for the removal of the heads of the armed forces , something forbidden under the 1980 Constitution approved by the military . |
| 24 | The gallery , a relatively small space , allowing for the hanging of twelve to fifteen paintings , will be run by Christophe Lázar , who originally came to Colnaghi 's after eight years in private banking at Schroders in New York and investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston in London . |
| 25 | In December 1991 the Legislative Assembly had sanctioned constitutional changes allowing for the abolition of the army [ see p. 38672 ] . |
| 26 | Section 7–4 examines the implications of the taxation of intermediate goods , allowing for the interdependence of industries ( via the input-output table ) , and describes a simple hierarchical model of production . |
| 27 | In December a number of PFLP detainees were released [ see p. 37136 ] , and on Jan. 20 , 1990 , Badran issued a circular to all government departments allowing for the re-employment of any civil servant who had been discharged since the April 1989 riots on the strength of the country 's martial law regulations . |
| 28 | The latest capital spending review could result in a near 20 p.c. cut in total investment to $6½ billion ( £3.7 billion ) against $8 billion ( £4.6 billion ) last year although after allowing for the purchase of Petromed in Spain the figure is nearer 7 p.c . |
| 29 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 30 | ‘ Even allowing for the subject under exposition that evening , ’ he said , ‘ I would hardly think that the two were connected . ’ |