Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [art] [noun] [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 | Vickers ' Challenger 2 was competing for the contract with the United States Abrams M1A2 and France 's Leclerc . |
| 7 | In a multiprogramming computer system , then , we have a number of processes competing for the resources of the computer , such as main storage areas , processor time , and access to transput devices . |
| 8 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 9 | Dozens of street musicians have been competing for the title of Britain 's best busker . |
| 10 | Brewers have been competing for the title of Best British Beer at the industry 's own version of the Oscars . |
| 11 | Farmworkers have been competing for the title of Britain 's best ploughman , and a place in the world finals in New Zealand . |
| 12 | The new knowledge is acquired through changes in the prices of resources and of products , brought about by the bids and offers of the entrepreneur-producers who are eagerly competing for the profits to be won by discovering where resource owners and consumers have ( in effect ) underestimated each other 's eagerness to buy or to sell . |
| 13 | Six countries — Thailand , India Pakistan , Cuba Italy and Belgium — are competing for the site of the $50 million research programme . |
| 14 | Let us suppose your agency is competing for the account of a new skin care range . |
| 15 | The parents moved in couples , greeting one another with false enthusiasm and competing for the attention of the staff . |
| 16 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Not only are we investing in capital equipment and premises , we are also building for the future by investing in people . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Now I can not bear the darkness and have to keep on relighting the candle , fumbling for the matches in the total darkness . |
| 27 | Without conscious thought she found she was pushing her hands inside his shirt , fumbling for the buttons in a frenzy of haste which made him smile against her lips . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That is why Alan Yentob , controller of BBC1 , felt duty bound to reply , publicly apologising for an episode of Casualty which featured a riot . |
| 30 | 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 . |