Example sentences of "[n mass] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q I have a problem with fish dying for no apparent reason . |
| 2 | CCG run staff catering for the Royal Bank of Scotland at four locations in Edinburgh , and it is a pleasure to be involved with an organisation that thinks of food as an essential ingredient of daily working life . |
| 3 | For the media clamouring for every sensational scrap of information about Kylie — good or bad — the troubles she endured during this period were mass circulation manna from heaven . |
| 4 | Letting someone else decide — most often manifest in people applying for a wide range of jobs perhaps with little in , because they are unable to decide which is most appropriate for them and hoping that somehow the right choice will be made by the employers themselves . |
| 5 | At night the harbour lights up and the atmosphere becomes electric as the streets of Aghios Nikolaos fill up with people looking for a good time in the restaurants , bars and discos . |
| 6 | We had always known that there were many people looking for a historic building to restore but had not realized the extent , which was very encouraging . |
| 7 | ‘ I hate , ’ Mrs Gray burst out passionately , ‘ people looking for a certain sort of reaction from me about it . |
| 8 | Pippa Raudsepp , residential mortgage manager with independent financial advisers London & Country Mortgages , said : ‘ For people looking for a new mortgage the rates are quite good . |
| 9 | The Clearing System is designed to help people looking for an alternative place . |
| 10 | Such a financial obstacle would send most people looking for an easier option , but Dreamflight has been helped enormously in recent years by Spar supermarkets who have raised £350,000 . |
| 11 | Here were young people striving for the noblest ideals . |
| 12 | There were faces at the barrier , people craning for a last look . |
| 13 | In reality , Scotland 's premier stadium-fillers have always striven for scale on a windswept , neo-Celtic level ; grand dreams , grander schemes , the proverbial men of the people reaching for the impossible . |
| 14 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
| 15 | He arrives in Massillon , Ohio , to discover the entire town of 30,000 people preparing for the big football game the next day . |
| 16 | Afterwards , about five , when the club started to fill up with people arriving for the daily hockey and cricket matches , played always , by personal decree of the Consul-General , in the cool of the evening , he returned to his office . |
| 17 | The death on May 4th of Haruyuki Takata , an unarmed policeman in Cambodia , also led the Japanese government to order all its people working for the United Nations there back to the capital , Phnom Penh . |
| 18 | Obviously , the fewer carp competing for the available food the better the chance of reaching a worthwhile size . |