Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [noun] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of these students were full time or sandwich undergraduates aiming for a first degree and enrolled on a course of three or more years duration . |
| 2 | Traffic problems are the single biggest reason why people are late for work , says the report , accounting for one-third of late arrivals , with oversleeping and bus or tube problems accounting for 16 per cent and 9 per cent respectively . |
| 3 | Forest of Dean trainer Tony Meek has Lass Java and Ringa Hustle racing for a place in next week 's final … there 's £40,000 for the winner … |
| 4 | ( All but Mrs. Bowles and Mrs. Barker playing for Henley ) . |
| 5 | There is a slowly burgeoning market for this type of entertainment , with many music and arts societies looking for such a programme . |
| 6 | An international exile for over two years he is poised for a late , late charge to try for a spectacular break into the Great Britain and Ireland side heading for Minneaoplis in August . |
| 7 | The report was prepared by decommissioning and decontamination experts working for AEA Technology , the authority 's commercial arm . |
| 8 | The state-run daily al-Jumhuriya had carried on Sept. 8 a statement signed by Kurdish , Sunni and Shia intellectuals appealing for the liberalization of Iraq 's single-party political system . |
| 9 | With Monzer al-Kassar and Rifat Assad fronting for the group in Europe , it fell to Kenaan , as the man on the spot , to supervise the supply end of the business , to keep the Bekaa peaceful and productive , to suppress dissent , discourage private enterprise and mediate disputes . |
| 10 | — The 1992 Pubs , Clubs and Hotels Exhibition will be held at Gateshead International Stadium on March 3 , 4 and 5. — A show organised by clubland entertainer Terry Milligan in memory of his mother-in-law and former stewardess at Newcastle East Conservative Club , the late Katie Brown , raised £1,000 for the Fight Against Cancer Trust , based at Newcastle Freeman Hosptial. — Presentations to the winners of the West Durham Snooker League will be held at Horndale Social Club , Newton Aycliffe on Friday , April 3. — Popular organiser John Beattie is now resident at Old Shildon Social Club every Saturday and Monday night playing for dancing . |
| 11 | From the 1840s public anxiety had also been focused on prostitution , the ‘ great social evil ’ , by studies from evangelical clerics and medics , and by rescue and reform societies campaigning for a police crackdown on the London streets . |
| 12 | Both of the Bohemian 's goals were scored by John Anderson with Kevin Messenger and Robert McDowell replying for the Celtic . |
| 13 | I was told to look out for a redstart at the next bend , its black face and chestnut tail showing for brief moments as it darted into the open , out and back , fly catching . |
| 14 | The bottom club have Nigel Ogden and Martin Ruane returning for Joe Bird and Ian Robson . |
| 15 | to write to the Health and Safety Executive asking for a report on their findings of their investigation into the causes of the explosion , and erm after several letters , if you recall at the last meeting I was asked to write to MPs and so forth . |
| 16 | The Burgage is close to Cheltenham race course and race goers heading for the first day of the Cheltenham Gold Cup meeting were diverted away from the murder house . |
| 17 | The streets were full of theatre-goers , tourists and buskers and ticket touts looking for the tourist theatre-goer . |
| 18 | Domestic passenger air traffic was considerably disrupted on March 4 , 1989 , when pilots and flight attendants working for Eastern Airlines went on strike . |
| 19 | In 1910 , Tom Mann came back from Australia , where he had been engaged in political and trade union campaigning for the previous nine years . |
| 20 | Angela Sture 's photo shows husband Sten and Mike Hayward asking for permission to paddle Norway 's River Grøvu . |
| 21 | Ethnic minority groups account for 5 per cent of the population , Indians , Pakistani , Bangladeshi and West Indians accounting for just 1 per cent each of the population overall ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | Captain 's convention — ( l-r ) Naas Botha , F.W. de Klerk , Nick Farr-Jones and Sean Fitzpatrick looking for nuggets at the bottom of Shaft 14 at a reception given by the State President in the week before the Ellis Park test . |
| 23 | The London International Stock Exchange yesterday voted to bring the costly Taurus paperless trading fiasco to an end and kill the project , and the Bank of England established a task force on securities settlement following an approach by the Stock Exchange , to consider best way forward for development of securities settlement , share registration and share transfer in the UK and to identify possible alternatives to Taurus , having regard to speed of implementation , cost , ownership , governance and financing , as well as system structure , to recommend a preferred option and to make recommendations for managing its implementation and to report to the governor of the Bank of England by the end of June 1993 at the latest ; the abandonment of project , which cost the Exchange £75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 24 | The abandonment of the project , which cost the Exchange 75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 25 | Throw it in the river still bearing the noose-mark , or cart it round London and risk capture looking for a new gibbet ! ’ |
| 26 | It makes a perfect base and not just for enthusiastic golfers and golf societies looking for an ideal location . |
| 27 | Tracey said she recruited many of her adult models by trooping the disco and nightclub circuit looking for the latest talent . |
| 28 | The potential customers are hungry Phoenix developers and construction workers heading for the battered remains of Kuwait city . |
| 29 | The Galileo group of end users and system integrators pushing for a common graphical front-end on different types of computers are to meet during UniForum in San Francisco this month : a couple of the Baby Bells and Mitre Corp are said to be latest converts to the cause . |
| 30 | The Galileo group of end users and system integrators pushing for a common graphical front-end on different types of computers are to meet during the Uniforum show in San Francisco next month : a couple of the Baby Bells and Mitre Corp are said to be latest converts to the cause ( UX Nos 415 , 423 ) . |