Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day began with the men 's semi final , 28 qualifiers competing for eight places in the final . |
| 2 | The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group . |
| 3 | Simply to maintain current patterns of expenditure will require considerable expansion of the budget , without allowing for technological changes in service provision . |
| 4 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
| 5 | The Lake District 's Herdwick sheep are threatened by the reduction of an EC subsidy concession allowing for late lambing in the cold climatePHOTOGRAPHS : DON McPHEE Tyson Hartley … |
| 6 | Now , with the completion of these treatment plants and THORP , BNFL is seeking to vary discharge authorisations , but even allowing for projected increases in some contributions , the overall total dose resulting from the discharges will remain very low . |
| 7 | But while much of Africa is clamouring for multi-party elections in the hope of replacing indifferent or corrupt governments , the prospect of political freedom is met with apprehension in Uganda . |
| 8 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 9 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 10 | For example , the mental-health establishment , behaving as though it has sniffed bad news , is publicly agitating for full-fledged inclusion in the benefits programme . |
| 11 | Now the government understands that they have to do things for culture ’ , compensating for neglected priorities in the past . |
| 12 | There was seating for 27 passengers in the lower saloon , with seats for three in each corner and two and one turnover seats for the rest , upholstered in UndergrounD Group style grey moquette . |
| 13 | Another manufacturer bidding for top spot in the microcar sales league is Mazda who have just launched a radically new gull-wing doored sports coupe onto the domestic Japanese market . |
| 14 | Ireland have just named their panel of 16 and a study of the 20 nations who will be in Nairobi , bidding for three places in the World Cup proper the following year , emphatically illustrates the mountainous task confronting the Irish . |
| 15 | Ireland have just named their panel of 16 and a study of the 20 nations who will be in Nairobi , bidding for three places in the World Cup proper the following year , emphatically illustrates the mountainous task confronting the Irish . |
| 16 | Bureaucrats , members of the royal family , intellectuals of various persuasions , city dwellers and the peasantry all seemed to be pressing for radical changes in the structure of the Russian polity . |
| 17 | Invited the Lord President to take soundings among Government supporters with a view to determining whether it would be possible to persuade those who were in favour of the abolition of capital punishment that in the interests of securing the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in the 1947–48 Session they should refrain from pressing for this change in the law ; |
| 18 | Such realities , as pressing for some heads in the suburbs as in the inner city , presented an agenda which primary orthodoxies addressed only partly , if at all . |
| 19 | Most of those pressing for more individuals in the stockmarket have an interest in doing so . |
| 20 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 21 | She looked across at him as if giving him a final appraisal and checking for further clues in his face , in his clothes . |
| 22 | Checking for residual defects in the authors ' clinic in Budapest |
| 23 | Other cases are known to Amnesty International , where asylum seekers travelling without valid travel documents have been prevented by airline personnel , sometimes with the knowledge of Immigration Officers , from applying for political asylum in this country . |
| 24 | According to my constituent , simply applying for extra amounts in loans , either under the Government 's student loans scheme or from the bank , defeats the object , because the students then get themselves further into debt . |
| 25 | Furthermore , there is great danger that people from such backgrounds will be deterred from applying for educational courses in the future . |
| 26 | Although Sulivan bought an estate at Ponsbourne in Hertfordshire , he spent most of his time in London , living for many years in a house in Queen 's Square . |
| 27 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 28 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 29 | He then paid tribute to the Alresford Society , pointing out that when they started pushing for environmental improvements in the 1970s , it was before conservation had come into fashion . |
| 30 | The two men also have been at odds over Israel 's Middle East policy , with Mr Levy pushing for greater flexibility in talks with the Arabs and against straining relations with the United States . |