Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] their [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , most appointees on public bodies are given their jobs for a set number of years , so it could be some while before changes filtered through . |
| 2 | Oldham are to continue their search for a replacement for the injured Jon Hallworth after also hearing that any move for Grobbelaar — rated at around £400,000 — would be beset by complications . |
| 3 | The earliest the matter can be raised again is in January when the new Congress returns , and although if the benefit is reintroduced it may well be retroactive to1 January , potential donors are biding their time for the moment . |
| 4 | The Miami Cubans are flexing their wallets for the return to a country whose people are healthier , better educated and less racially divided than when the exiles left . |
| 5 | People are saving their resources for other basic needs . |
| 6 | Several chandlers are revising their catalogues for the new year . |
| 7 | Yes , I think that the crucial thing that 's emerging , especially from the area of artificial intelligence , is that we 're beginning to understand that what the name of the game is getting people to express their intentions , and for a long time we 've been , as it were , stuck in languages that do n't really help you to do that and we 're really beginning to understand now that erm what people are doing when they program indeed , I mean as it were the ace programmers , are expressing their intention for whatever 's to be done in the task the computer 's to perform clearly . |
| 8 | Do n't think they 're getting their value for money off this tape . |
| 9 | I think they like to hold that position that they 're doing their bit for the school . |
| 10 | A couple are suing their bank for half a million pounds because they say it bungled advice on small business and forced them into debt . |
| 11 | Police are renewing their appeal for help from the public . |
| 12 | If choreographers are to justify their reasons for creating a ballet , they should use or create a style of movement appropriate to and expressive of the characters in the story being told and their moods , emotions and actions . |
| 13 | At its worst extreme , and particularly where the panel is a voluntary committee , all of whom are giving their time for nothing , the selection may well be made without all the panel having interviewed the candidate . |
| 14 | No one wants to see students forced to abandon their studies for financial reasons and no one wants to see students in hardship , but I do not believe that students are abandoning their studies for financial reasons . |
| 15 | North Staffs are continuing their search for a mainline diesel but a recent visit to MC Metals in Glasgow to examine their ‘ Peaks ’ found a disappointing collection of cannibalised , sorry looking , Sulzers . |
| 16 | Mina and Kāli are taking their offering for the festival to the house where the dhāmis have been dancing at night . |
| 17 | Christian women who are studying their traditions for new interpretations are not helped by secular attempts to dismiss such traditions altogether . |
| 18 | Sealink and P&O , with an estimated 80% share of the short-route ferry market , are pinning their hopes for the future on large capacity super-ferries and changes in manning procedures introduced after the last seamen 's strike . |
| 19 | They are backing their crusade for the safari park monkeys with a ‘ Now You See Them , Now You Do n't ’ poster . |
| 20 | By Anne Harrison TWINS Keith and Brian Simmons are raising their glasses for a special birthday toast . |