Example sentences of "[v-ing] for an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Total revenue would increase by S$1,900 million , to S$17,200 million , allowing for an overall surplus ( that is , surplus minus net lending and plus net capital receipts ) of S$3,500 million , or 5.3 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 3 | Some of his actions , in particular the unexpected introduction of a constitutional amendment allowing for an elected Vice-President and the subsequent appointment of Moudud Ahmed to that post , caused some disquiet among party members . |
| 4 | The curiously-named ‘ master break ’ jacks provide a feed to additional power amps etc. , the return socket catering for an incoming signal which will bypass the DSP 's preamp , to be fed straight to the power amp . |
| 5 | Eminent scientists are clamouring for an outright ban on all chlorine substances . |
| 6 | Here the helicopter spotted a crowd gathering for an illegal rave in Buckinghamshire . |
| 7 | It can be used to find missing people and in the Thames Valley area the system spotted party-goers gathering for an illegal rave in Buckinghamshire . |
| 8 | For years before that , however , football enthusiasts in Glasgow had long been agitating for an international match against the deaf footballers of England , without success . |
| 9 | Do n't try and make me out to be some kind of embittered nut compensating for an unsatisfactory sex-life . ’ |
| 10 | The palate aching for an absent flavour . |
| 11 | In the meantime , a leading US food manufacturer is pressing for an exclusive deal with Staley to help it challenge rivals which already product diet cakes and desserts based on Simpless and other formulations . |
| 12 | Opposition parties had also been pressing for an early poll , especially in view of the poor performance by ANAP in local elections since 1989 [ see p. 36528 ] . |
| 13 | He is pressing for an early meeting with Home Office Minister Peter Lloyd , who has been sent a copy of the survey . |
| 14 | The fact that the assassination coincided with the release in Lebanon of the British hostage John McCarthy [ see p. 38405 ] fuelled speculation that it had been sanctioned by opponents of the Iranian government critical of its current conciliatory attitude towards the West [ see pp.38212 ; 38309 ] and of its role in pressing for an early resolution of the hostage crisis . |
| 15 | We are therefore pressing for an immediate reduction in the stock of debt for those countries . |
| 16 | Because of its concerns about the consultants ' figures , convention officials have been pressing for an urgent meeting of a joint Scottish Office-COSLA working party on finance since early February but that has not taken place . |
| 17 | Agreements not infrequently will provide that the mere fact of the presentation of a petition for a bankruptcy order by a creditor , or a partner applying for an interim order under s253 of the Insolvency Act 1986 , or a partner entering into a compromise for the benefit of his creditors generally , or even the circumstance of a partner being unable and having no reasonable prospect of being able to pay his debts , should make the power exercisable . |
| 18 | the election for which you are applying for an absent vote ; |
| 19 | The Ffestiniog Railway Trust acting on a High Court judge 's advice is currently applying for an Amending Order from the Ministry of Transport for the transfer of the WHR Company to the Ffestiniog . |
| 20 | Puffer , a nineteenth-century female psychology graduate thinking of applying for an academic post , is told by her college president , ‘ the rumor … concerning your engagement may have … affected the recommendation I sent ’ . |
| 21 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 22 | If such covenants are mixed with negative covenants , which appear on the Register , or if they are contained in a document that is bound up in the certificate , they will be apparent , and a conveyancer acting for an original covenantor who is selling should peruse these covenants , providing in the contract for a covenant of indemnity against breach of any positive covenants by the buyer ( see below ) ; ( see special condition K , 34 ) . |
| 23 | For years , American X-ray astronomers have been pushing for an Advanced X-ray Astrophysics facility ( AXAF ) which would have better sensitivity and resolution of detail , than all other X-ray telescopes presently planned . |
| 24 | So Clemente and his FA were taken aback when England returned from the Swedish disaster and began pushing for an away fixture at anywhere in Spain that could be called ‘ cool ’ . |
| 25 | The British Antarctic Survey forms a key component of the Natural Environment Research Council , and we 're now looking for an experienced Electron Microscopist to manage the new SEM facility at our Cambridge headquarters . |
| 26 | If anyone is looking for an experienced goal scorer he fits the bill . |
| 27 | Speculation that the Prime Minister is looking for an experienced figure to act as an advisor follows Norman Lamont 's devastating resignation speech last week . |
| 28 | Good Evening : Six hundred travellers ' vehicles heading for Stonehenge for the Summer Solstice have been banned from there , so farmers here have been warned that they 're looking for an alternative location . |
| 29 | At the moment we are looking for an alternative night shelter , which is going to prove expensive ’ . |
| 30 | The Clearing System is designed to help people looking for an alternative place . |