Example sentences of "[n mass] are [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 3,000 aircraft are scheduled for delivery . |
| 2 | Currently , practice data are standardised for age by converting list sizes to prescribing units and prescribing costs are expressed per prescribing unit rather than per patient . |
| 3 | If you dip the end of the wires in a stream where such fish are searching for food in the muddy bottom , you will hear a series of clicks . |
| 4 | Sterilised nets ( two ) , large baby-bath , supply of deep heavy gauge plastic bags , and cotton towels ( to be used wetted with pond water when fish are removed for examination ) . |
| 5 | However , when planning we need to make sure that people are compensated for disruption in a way that does not put them at a disadvantage . |
| 6 | Perhaps it can be said that , when people are searching for meaning , they are at the beginning of a journey , not at the end of it . |
| 7 | and more and more and more people are looking for experience , they 're looking for vocations , they 're looking for er the sort of attributes which , you know , are n't actually overflowing when you 're unemployed in Wolverhampton |
| 8 | Such people are looking for help , not hindrance , from the Government . |
| 9 | ‘ People are looking for values which have nothing to do with success . ’ |
| 10 | But a lot of people are looking for pseudo-satisfaction through lusting after this complete stranger , and you have to accept that , fight on that terrain. , |
| 11 | People are looking for guidance . ’ |
| 12 | People are petitioning for interviews but I do not wish to talk to them . |
| 13 | As anyone will tell you , it 's easy to go over the limit , especially at this time of year when people are preparing for Christmas and buying presents . |
| 14 | Well , while two hundred thousand people are heading for Silverstone , another forty thousand are expected at RAF Brize Norton . |
| 15 | Now , after a lull of several years , the boat people are heading for Australia again , this time from Cambodia . |
| 16 | Or if you are of a nightmare disposition , the whole thing resembles the clinical and pageless world of Ray Bradbury 's Fahrenheit 451 , a world in which there is sexual fetishism , but no books , and people are wired for sound and watch TVs implanted into the walls of their homes . |
| 17 | And people are asking for advice and blessings , telling him about the problems they trust him to solve . |
| 18 | The product 's sales are heading for £1 million a year , benefiting from ecological concern over the kangaroo skin that traditionally covers soccer boots . |
| 19 | Delegates from Canada and the USA , where bluefin tuna are caught for sport , also opposed it , all three countries and also Morocco arguing that stocks were effectively monitored by the International Commission for Conservation of Atlantic Tuna . |