Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Iago seems to be acting wholly for the others ' good , since , as he challenges us to deny , ‘ this advice I give is free and honest . |
| 2 | She 'd explained that he 'd be staying away for the two nights , which he 'd never done before ; she only hoped she 'd explained it well enough . |
| 3 | Finally , former world champion Hans Neilsen will be riding again for the Oxford Cheetahs . |
| 4 | After the fourth session of the Hague peace conference on Sept. 26 , attended by the Foreign Ministers of all the republics , Lord Carrington said that the ceasefire seemed to be holding sufficiently for the conference to carry on and to accelerate its work . |
| 5 | I hope this excluded ‘ young ’ Winston Churchill who seems to be doing more for the miners than the opposition parties put together . |
| 6 | And it is a good thing that someone sensible should be doing so for the subject has got into the hands of theorists of the most tiresome sort . |
| 7 | There are many who have already started to vote , or will be doing so for the first time soon , with no first-hand experience of what Labour governments were like . |
| 8 | Most of them were married , with children : they seemed to be set fair on the roads they would be travelling now for the rest of their lives . |
| 9 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 10 | She goes to boarding school in Sanderstown , but , ’ with a smile , ‘ always seems to be coming home for the holidays . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ Our position is that we will not be making public statements about who we may or may not be putting forward for the mayor and deputy mayor 's position . ’ |
| 12 | Many entrants to nursing will be leaving home for the first time or changing their location . |
| 13 | I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses . |