Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right okay can you go into the , just log the data okay last week we were looking at test for structural change and we said that the Chow test is the most commonly used test for structural change in actual fact Chow developed two tests erm , the parameter constancy , I E structural change , fir the first one is where you remember what the , the principle behind the Chow test that you split the whole sample into two sub periods , right and you see whether the , some of the res residual sum of squares from each sub sample , right , is significantly different from the residual sum of squares from a single estimation over the who whole sample period , right if they are significantly different that suggests that the parameters that are estimated over the full er sample period , right , are n't as good estimates as the unrestricted estimates when we are allowing two different sets of parameters just to be estimated . |
| 2 | The most noteworthy consequences of such an attitude was that at the same time as growing numbers of Latin Americans , particularly young people , were looking to Marxism for some kind of solution , the orthodox Communist parties were widely perceived to be inert and impotent . |
| 3 | Some of the German soldiers who were acting as escort for the Poles , began to unsling their rifles apprehensively . |
| 4 | He bent and twisted himself before it , jerking suddenly this way and that , as if he were lying in wait for disease , determined to pounce on it before it could strike . |
| 5 | We then came back to London where fortunately no journalists or television crews were lying in wait for us , because the mission had been unofficial . |
| 6 | In addition it was assumed that if there were insufficient jobs in Britain , other economies , such as those of America and Australia , were waiting for labour for their own development . |
| 7 | He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it . |
| 8 | We had to wait awhile ; the troops there were drilling in preparation for being shipped to some Godforsaken town in the Low Countries to wage one of Fat Henry 's futile , forgotten wars . |
| 9 | But lots of things were falling into place for me . |
| 10 | Well we were talking about timing for people , you 're the same time in your car as you are in |
| 11 | Oh I see I thought you were talking about toxophily for a minute . |
| 12 | They were fighting for justice for the workers , a fine cause but one that had already proved useless in Russia , where the same old bureaucratic hierarchy held sway as it did in Spain . |
| 13 | It has been conjectured that the archers and many of the foot-soldiers who fought at Hastings and feature in the Bayeux Tapestry were fighting in return for pay . |
| 14 | So it was n't the bicycle people that , that the two , that they were laying in ambush for , must of been the car thieves they were laying in ambush for . |
| 15 | So it was n't the bicycle people that , that the two , that they were laying in ambush for , must of been the car thieves they were laying in ambush for . |
| 16 | I was dying of jealousy for guys whose faces were just cratered with seeping yellow pus . |
| 17 | The justiciar , Geoffrey FitzPeter , who had taken the cross , was absolved as he was dying in return for a 2000 marks ' subsidy for the Holy Land . |
| 18 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 19 | Endill was wandering about hunting for his friends when he heard Matron 's voice behind him . |
| 20 | I was living on adrenaline for the first couple of weeks . |
| 21 | Easter had been set as the tentative date to ‘ roll-in ’ the first aircraft and everything was looking on course for this . |
| 22 | I was looking for space for something , I 've forgotten what it wa Oh I had a big spreadsheet |
| 23 | And I did n't want to have that 'cause I was looking for respect for me but also for my area of work and it was an absolutely deliberate act . |
| 24 | One of his name and style was acting as deputy for the absentee archdeacon of Buckingham ( the brother of the future Pope Adrian V ) in Chesham on 11 May 1280 . |
| 25 | v. Perry , the wife 's contention was that her husband , in obtaining her consent to the giving of the security , was acting as agent for the bank . |
| 26 | In neither case was there any explicit finding that the debtor was acting as agent for the creditor . |
| 27 | ‘ Mrs. Perry contends that Mr. Colin Perry , in his dealings with her in relation to the execution of the charge , was acting as agent for the bank in obtaining Mrs. Perry 's consent to the giving of the security . |
| 28 | ‘ In both cases it is an essential first step for the wife to be able to show that the husband was acting as agent for the creditor in procuring her signature . |
| 29 | With respect to Lloyd L.J. , when the creditor is content to leave it to the debtor to obtain the surety 's signature in circumstances in which it should have been aware that undue influence might come into play , it is not necessary to establish that the debtor was acting as agent for the bank . |
| 30 | Unknown to the defendants Y Bank was acting as agent for Z Bank , the plaintiff . |