Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence was fuming after Barnsley beat Boro 1–0 on Monday , and a season that promised so much is shaping up for a disastrous finale . |
| 2 | He could have destroyed Tottenham except for their world class goalie who is shaping up for a good World Cup eh Halvard ? |
| 3 | BARCLAYS , the biggest plastic card issuer , is gearing up for a blitz on card fraud in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 4 | Comedienne Marti Caine , star presenter of BBC1 's Joker in the Pack is gearing up for a hair-raising performance as the evil panto Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . |
| 5 | The sportscar firm is gearing up for a multi-million pound windfall by having replicas of the dream machine on sale in the next few weeks for at least £5,000 apiece . |
| 6 | Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson has left the world of track and field and is gearing up for a new career in motor racing . |
| 7 | THE NORTH-EAST is gearing up for a bumper celebration of European arts and entertainment . |
| 8 | He now firmly refutes suggestions that he is unhappy with the Yorkshire set-up and is looking around for a move to another county . |
| 9 | The conservative teacher who is looking only for a reasonable salary and a peaceful life . |
| 10 | I think that 's , that 's pretty consistent , probably with how bands are formed , actually , is n't it , its friends of friends , and somebody knows somebody else , and somebody 's looking round for a drummer , just happens that somebody mentions it to somebody else . |
| 11 | Long journey : Nigel Lupton , 32 , of Raby Road in Hartlepool , is training hard for a 900-mile cycle ride from Land 's End to John O'Groat 's next month . |
| 12 | Wesley is turning out for a ‘ beat the keeper ’ sideshow at a garden fete organised by Holy Trinity church on Belfast 's Ballysillan Road ( 10.30am ) . |
| 13 | Australian 250 rider David Evelyn has just collided with Cadalora in qualifying and is heading straight for a concrete wall . |
| 14 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 15 | ‘ The only problem is , my car is going in for a service , so maybe you could do me a favour and give me a lift there ? |
| 16 | And the Isle of Ely college is going out for a meal , so that wo n't be back , so he ca n't have that one , so we have n't got one ! |
| 17 | Our Dawn thinks she 's going just for a tea party when they to ask her to drink owt she just takes her time and drinks it . |
| 18 | Oh Mary 's going out for a drink as well . |
| 19 | ‘ At the rate he 's working up he 's heading straight for a crisis some time today . ’ |
| 20 | While his clients have included dealers and museums , among them the British Museum , Patrick de Bayser says he is aiming mainly for a clientèle of private collectors . |
| 21 | The UK government has deferred funding support for a major road scheme through the rainforests of the Central African Republic , and is calling instead for a thorough environmental impact assessment . |
| 22 | He is coming over for a tour which culminates in the Edinburgh Festival , and he will be promoting both this and his third Easy Rawlins tale . |
| 23 | Birmingham is crying out for a venue for mid-size bands . ’ |
| 24 | Does he agree with the Prime Minister who told me in a letter this week that even that does not justify a special economic initiative or does he agree with local industry which is crying out for a partnership with Government to take Britain out of recession ? |
| 25 | In short answers unless it is crying out for a diagram do n't bother because you 'll spend five minutes drawing the diagram , labelling it , explaining what D P and D S means and it just wo n't work it definition , application , measurement problems , contention , |
| 26 | The system is crying out for a particular simple change . |
| 27 | Mr Fallon , a champion for redevelopment of the site , said : ‘ I do n't want to see anything which would have a detrimental effect on the bus company but the area is crying out for a new development . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Fallon , who supports redevelopment of the site , said : ‘ I do n't want to see anything which would have a detrimental effect on the bus company but , at the same time , the area is crying out for a new development . ’ |
| 29 | East Stand ) Neither of them are now at leeds , one is playing in the USA and the other is dossing around for a year ( so he says ) before trying to get in with a lower division club . |
| 30 | Shadow community care minister David Hinchliffe is campaigning vigorously for a change in the law . |