Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 .
2 The reason for this is that the sub-continent 's representatives will still be competing for a one-day pot in Sharjah until the 20th .
3 Asif and Trevor Penney , the newly-qualified Zimbabwean , will be competing for a middle-order place , though the first chance is likely to go to Paul Smith if he has shaken off last year 's injury troubles .
4 As employers find themselves competing for a falling number of young workers , there is a real opportunity to change out-dated and discriminatory attitudes towards older people .
5 Obviously , the fewer carp competing for the available food the better the chance of reaching a worthwhile size .
6 Scotland at their best and Ireland should now reach the semi-finals and Wales , competing for the first time , could join them .
7 I have no doubt that there will be special preparations and allowances made by police and spectators for the Marathon , in which I will be competing for the first time tomorrow .
8 SOUTH AFRICA , who will be competing for the first time , are to stage the 1995 Rugby World Cup .
9 This time an overseas crew from South Africa is competing for the first time .
10 London will again fill one of the places with Glasgow , Manchester and Birmingham competing for the other spot .
11 Sheffield Steelers are sweeping the opposition aside in their bid to gain league entry , while Trafford Metros , Medway Bears and Streatham Redskins are competing for the other vacancy .
12 ‘ Indeed , there is an increasing number of countries competing for the limited funds available for re-investment and will be glad to welcome new entrants .
13 What it will not do of course , is reconcile needs competing for the same resources .
14 It wo n't be competing for the same resources .
15 ( The more lenders there are competing for the same customers , the hard for each has to work to attract a given number of customers — and an obvious way of attracting customers is by cutting rates . )
16 This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house .
17 CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship .
18 CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship .
19 Harry Holmes senior was competing for the last time , having raced thirty-seven times between 1933 and 1969 .
20 One boy , Dai Knoyle , was caddying for the great rugby player Barry John and took him back to his house to change .
21 Willie had caught the bug , and his first top professional tournament duly arrived with a trip to Turnberry for the News of the World PGA Matchplay Championship , caddying for the legendary Scot Eric Brown .
22 He said there were three er , down there canvassing for the main parties and er , well quite a lot of people there and of course rich pickings for , providing they can get anybody to stop and talk to them do n't know , they 'd drive around
23 I encountered an old lady of a more awkward sort while canvassing for the Tory candidate in Crosby — a by-election subsequently won for the SDP by Shirley Williams .
24 Yesterday we observed that Mr Jeffrey Archer ( whose idea of canvassing for the Tory Party has revived the lost art of burlesque ) had bet £10 that the Tories will win with a majority of 27 seats .
25 Nathaniel Sherman stumbled slightly at the entrance of his hut , and his wife heard him cursing and fumbling for a long time with the flap fastenings .
26 POOR U.S. unemployment figures plus big falls by Wellcome and BAT sent shares tumbling for a dismal end to the week .
27 Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows .
28 Poland restored relations on Feb. 27 , calling the rift a mistake , apologising for an anti-Semitic purge in March 1968 and offering to restore citizenship to about 30,000 Jews forced to emigrate at that time .
29 Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised .
30 ( China , while not using its veto , nevertheless abstained , thus breaching for the first time the unanimity of the five permanent members of the Security Council in supporting resolutions on the Gulf crisis .
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