Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] for [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would actually be competing for development that Selby wants for its own population . |
| 2 | More than a museum devoted to one artist 's work ( like the Museum Picasso , or the Fundació Joan Miró ) , it will be competing for income and audiences with an increasing number of new museums in Barcelona : the stylish Centre d'Art Santa Mònica which cuts a dash on the tourist drag of the Ramblas ; a museum of contemporary art being designed by Richard Meier , to be squeezed into the dense Barri Gotic , as well as the National Museum of Catalan Art up on Montjuic , remodelled by Gae Aulenti , and currently under construction . |
| 3 | They were computerized , all young enough to be looking for promotion and supposedly as mean as hell . |
| 4 | QPR manager Gerry Francis will be looking for consistency and said : ‘ Rangers were always capable of beating the teams at the top one week and losing to the bottom side the next . |
| 5 | They may not be looking for treatment or rehabilitation but er what we can offer them is clean injecting equipment er free condoms , because H I V is transmitted sexually as well , probably more than , more often than in Oxfordshire , er and also we have been prescribing from an assessment clinic in the city centre . |
| 6 | From a personal point of view I think that charity , charitable giving by er companies whether big or small should be erm should be erm on that basis I mean they should n't be looking for acknowledgement but unfortunately in the real world companies are looking to see what we can get back in terms of the investment they make and |
| 7 | I hovered over the sideboard pretending to be looking for cutlery and strained my ears to catch the conversation . |
| 8 | For more advanced students , on the other hand , you may be looking for material where the pictures give less support and the comprehension challenge is correspondingly greater . |
| 9 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that any proposal to raise the higher rate of income tax , as advocated by the Opposition , would be damaging for morale and prosperity , because such a move would not only destroy the will to work but drive some of our best brains out of the country ? |
| 10 | If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have . |
| 11 | She 'd smell the pipe and the sherry in the lounge and know she could go to sleep , because the Guests would be staying for supper and cards . |
| 12 | I think personalised shirts , or even any shirts may be asking for trouble if we are going to mingle rather than just get herded in and out of the away enclosure . |
| 13 | Or an electric fire then you would be asking for trouble because you 'd be trying to draw out |
| 14 | If we wind the table up another 6 places , 6 more teams who could be fighting for promotion and at the Manor tomorrow , it is Oxford take versus Grimsby . |
| 15 | A report in Nezavisimaya gazeta of April 21 noted that Dudayev appeared to be hoping for support and recognition from the Islamic countries , rather than from the West , which recently had been heavily criticized in his speeches . |