Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | What it will not do of course , is reconcile needs competing for the same resources . |
| 3 | It wo n't be competing for the same resources . |
| 4 | ( 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 . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Around £150 for family holidays , allowing for a few days reasonably riding as part of the package . |
| 8 | On June 12 an accord was signed between the RPR and the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) allowing for the two parties to put up joint candidates at local and legislative elections . |
| 9 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |
| 10 | When it obtained the Royal Assent , the Criminal Justice Act 1988 had expanded to 173 Sections and sixteen schedules , half as long again as the Bill which had its First Reading in November 1986 , allowing for the separate provisions of the 1987 Act . |
| 11 | The engineering brief was to achieve a 10 per cent gain in performance over the already rapid Turbo R , implying a top speed target of well over 150mph and 0–60mph acceleration in just over six seconds — a tough task , even allowing for the aerodynamic gains in the switch to the coupe shape , in a vehicle weighing at least two-and-a-half tons . |
| 12 | Are we , in fact , comparing like with like , even allowing for the above factors ? |
| 13 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 14 | It was this base which , allowing for the unusual circumstances of the General Election of December 1923 , permitted Labour to form its first government early in 1924 . |
| 15 | Allowing for the inevitable delays of London traffic I rang the bell of her flat at six-thirty . |
| 16 | Taylor said : ‘ Even allowing for the big advances in modern medicine , I 've always been a big believer in waiting for an operation to be complete before making any assessment . |
| 17 | The document suggested that every school has a common aim , that of helping children ‘ to meet the basic academic and social demands of adult life ’ while allowing for the unique differences that exist between child and child . |
| 18 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 19 | When the weather calmed her master spent several days trawling for the missing anchors with grapnels in what the charts said was 30 fathoms of water . |
| 20 | It was very simple , efficient , and reliable in operation , with the minor disadvantage that the vaporizer required preheating for a few minutes before the engine could be started ; when running , it retained sufficient heat to ignite the injected fuel . |
| 21 | Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew . |
| 22 | As well as catering for the spiritual needs of the Russian settlers , monks , sometimes with lay assistants , participated in the colonial process by establishing small monastic communities which soon attracted peasants and became the focus of new communities . |
| 23 | They had begun life catering for the manic requirements of radio 's The Goon Show , which stretched ingenuity to the full , requiring anything from Major Bloodnok 's gastric eruptions to the sound of ‘ a batter pudding whizzing through the air , hitting a wall and slithering to the floor ’ . |
| 24 | He slams the company 's parking proposals as ‘ wholly inadequate ’ to catering for the extra visitors . |
| 25 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
| 26 | That means not only that the BA could save money , but that it could make a bob or two by catering for the assembled hacks . |
| 27 | The fourth aim of catering for the different levels of ability is more likely to be teacher-dependent . |
| 28 | Excuse me I 've got not exactly hay-fever but I think I 'm going to be sneezing for a few minutes . |
| 29 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 30 | Gerald was uneasy , apologizing for the contending demands of the living and the dead , but Wycliffe was too preoccupied to be reassuring . |