Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It argues that if child support was received in addition to income support the resulting higher incomes would mean that more lone mothers would remain longer on benefit rather than looking for paid employment . |
| 2 | She has sought to highlight the positive ethical and aesthetic implications of Victorian science as they appear in literature ( rather than looking for further ammunition for what she calls the sterile and artificial battle of literature against science ) . |
| 3 | The project , established in tandem with a similar effort mounted by the US Administration 's Environmental Protection Agency , aims to encourage business to monitor its entire production process rather than looking for piecemeal solutions . |
| 4 | The Bank of England has , for many years , sought to make this a continuous operation and it seeks to buy stock approaching maturity rather than waiting for legal redemption dates . |
| 5 | The animal can anticipate them , rather than waiting for direct evidence . |
| 6 | Since talking still seemed better than asking for written answers , it was decided to interview the parents in small groups , using a modification of the nursery from which is given in the SOED 's Using Ethos Indicators in Primary School Settings . |
| 7 | Mr Blunkett says : ‘ A modest but proper wage would be paid and schemes would be specifically developed rather than substituting for existing work . |
| 8 | Peeling is more effective than washing for certain residues , but it will not remove pesticides like Alar . |
| 9 | Usually he would choose the next direction without hesitation , but sometimes he would wait , head cocked , as if listening for far-off sounds . |
| 10 | He stared down at her for a few seconds , almost as if searching for some clue hidden in her expression . |
| 11 | If searching for last-minute presents , look no further than What 's Cooking . |
| 12 | The Law Society 's rules of professional conduct do provide exemptions for this , but even so , a conveyancer should not be too quick to use those exemptions if acting for both sides might conceivably lead to a compromise or a difficult situation . |
| 13 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 14 | You waited outside in the street for up to two hours , and then , when you got to the box office , the passes were heaped in no known order , and Tory office girls scrabbled through piles of them as if digging for hidden bones . |
| 15 | Rainbow , looking towards my mirror as if hoping for some kind of guidance , is pulled backwards through the kitchen door . |
| 16 | He and Gros pulled every string , while canvassing for suitable volunteers from the Foreign Legion and the Field Service . |
| 17 | But 70-year-old Mr Lowes , who unearthed the historic treasures while searching for lost tools on Home Farm , at Hoxne , Suffolk last November , is totally relaxed about the whole thing . |
| 18 | A post mortem examination on an Oxford University student , who collapsed while training for next month 's boat race , has revealed he died fron natural causes . |
| 19 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 20 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 21 | However , they will have to satisfy unemployment benefit officers that part-time work is not their usual pattern , and they are just doing it while looking for full-time employment . |
| 22 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 23 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 24 | The appeal of microcomputers is particularly strong for those who have already defined their needs but are faced with the prospect of months ( or even years ) of delay while waiting for in-house programming resources to be made available . |
| 25 | While waiting for these elements to become commercially viable partly accounts for the delay , IBM also has reason to be cautious about allowing its mainframe customers to run existing transaction processing applications on smaller — and far cheaper — RS/6000s . |
| 26 | There was an inquiry about this in 1867 , when Richard Colwell was said to have left wheat at the mill for three weeks , while waiting for enough water to work the mill . |
| 27 | • Check your child 's breathing , giving artificial respiration if needed , while waiting for medical aid . |
| 28 | While waiting for this money to come through , he asked the owners if they would allow him to order goods for the coming summer season . |
| 29 | It is true that Act 1414/1984 , while providing for administrative sanctions , does notprovide for a system of civil sanctions for the protection of workers who are wronged by failure to apply the equal treatment principle as defined by Article 3 of Act 1414/1984 and the Directive . |
| 30 | While begging for this help , the Collective Ghost clutches at an adventurer ( treat as an attack ) . |