Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] for [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In Ambleside there are several lodging houses , but it is a matter of surprise to the writer that there are not a greater number , as during the travelling season , when all such houses are full , more are enquired for by those who wish to see the country apart from the bustle , not to speak of the expense , of an inn . |
| 2 | There may be other occasions but these three are vouched for by several different would-be passengers . |
| 3 | ‘ Let them put it on you and you are done for at last — food for the cannons , and the swamp-fever , and the hulks . |
| 4 | Further losses from the ecosystem occur as crops and/or animals are harvested and exported ; and such cumulative losses , unless they are compensated for with artificial fertilisers , often lead to farm abandonment . |
| 5 | So you want it arranged in some form that makes it easy to retrieve ( find ) the specific item you are looking for at any given moment . |
| 6 | Volume numbers of Unix-based PC 's are n't there yet and Motif ca n't give us the cash returns we 're looking for with this product ’ . |
| 7 | It was just one of those situations where you find just the sound you 're looking for at that particular time . |
| 8 | Whatever your ideas on style and whatever your budget , you will find what you 're looking for at Allied . |
| 9 | so what you 're looking for in any formula shush daddy 's talking Matthew ! |
| 10 | Erm wh what they 're looking for in this answer is erm Because it 's the angle in the semicircle angle B is ninety degrees . |
| 11 | Also it is a common feature of course that you need to order the resources , that you have the resource in terms of people or the economy or the armed forces , you need to order those resources to try to achieve your ends erm and we 'll look at that later , the aims that you 're going for in foreign policy so they 're common , that you 're in the same environment , that you 've got to m er whatever the resources you have you have to try to organize them to achieve your ends and so on . |
| 12 | The budget figure is what 's been agreed with and it 's a straightforward month by month , seasonally adjusted erm budget which comes to the end result figure that we 're aiming for for this year . |
| 13 | But they 're asking for for thirty six , |
| 14 | But have a look at the rule and you 'll find that it bloody well states exactly what they 're asking for in that motion . |
| 15 | Three fundamental changes are called for in this regard . |
| 16 | A further 25,000 are cared for in homes run by voluntary organizations and 78,000 are cared for in private residential care . |
| 17 | The retreat will open from Tuesdays to Sundays and bookings are invited for up five nights . |
| 18 | Small parties seem to serve their members better when food patches are found for in larger units only a few of the animals present could then be fed ( Dunbar 1977 ) . |
| 19 | The molecules that control transcription are themselves proteins which are coded for by other genes . |
| 20 | Please can I have my twenty five I 'm owed for like two weeks ? |
| 21 | Most management agreements are signed for between three and five years . |
| 22 | The small , frightened freedoms that we enjoy are underpinned by a global system that requires that they be paid for by rigorous and intensifying dispossession of the poor of the earth , the destruction of the resource-base , the ousting of indigenous peoples who happen to occupy the last remaining deposits of ‘ raw materials ’ to which the global market now stakes its superior claim . |
| 23 | If UK exports or capital inflows into the UK are paid for in foreign currencies , then UK residents will sell these currencies in foreign exchange markets to purchase pounds , since only the latter can be spent in the domestic economy , and so the demand for pounds will rise . |
| 24 | If UK imports and capital outflows from the UK are paid for in foreign currency , then domestic residents have to obtain foreign currency with pounds , and so the supply of pounds will increase in foreign exchange markets . |
| 25 | All public services are paid for by individual citizens , either directly or through their taxes . |
| 26 | Special diets are catered for with advance notice . |
| 27 | By extrapolating broad social trends such as the long-run shift in industrialised societies from employment in agriculture and manufacturing to employment in service industries he paints his picture of the future where all our material needs are catered for by 10 per cent of the labour force , and the remainder are employed in the service sector , many of them in education and subsidised by the government . |
| 28 | Investments in the shares of one company by another company are accounted for in different ways , depending on the type of relationship between the investor and the invested . |