Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the seller knows the number of companies who are competing for the order , their likely stances , the criteria used by the buying organisation when deciding between them , the degree of pressure on key members of the decision making unit , and any formula they might use for assessing price acceptability , an accurate assessment of the power balance should be possible . |
| 2 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 3 | At least six types of microfloppy , as the discs are called , of varying size and format are competing for the market . |
| 4 | Six countries — Thailand , India Pakistan , Cuba Italy and Belgium — are competing for the site of the $50 million research programme . |
| 5 | I am allowing for the fact that , in a substantial number of cases , investigations could not be concluded , and many complaints were withdrawn . |
| 6 | Bello Bouba said that he was returning to join his " fellow countrymen who are struggling for the institution of a real democracy " . |
| 7 | I am applying for the post of … |
| 8 | Eighteen companies are bidding for the contract to remove the red star from the dome of Hungary 's Parliament , writes Michael Simmons . |
| 9 | Eighteen companies are bidding for the contract to remove the red star from the dome of Hungary 's Parliament , writes Michael Simmons . |
| 10 | Now the Australians are bidding for the Olympics in the year 2000 , the plan being to hoist the Olympic rings at the SCG . |
| 11 | This frequently turns out to be a manifestation of the fact that Satanists are praying for the breakdown of Christian marriage . |
| 12 | If , while we are praying for the Lord to do a new thing , we are failing to take action in areas where his intentions are perfectly clear and his resources for their implementation guaranteed , then he is unlikely to respond to our appeals to do more . |
| 13 | A number of board members are pressing for the directors ' new suites , now being readied at the top of a spanking new building on Washington 's H Street , to be exempted from the Bank-wide policy of no smoking that begins on July 1st . |
| 14 | Partly I am mesmerised by its spinach-green tanks and cowling , its red pulleys , dogs and levers , its greasy leather belts , its twitching , glittering blades , stink of hot oil , petrol , exhaust … and partly I am praying for the chance that something — I 've no idea what , but just something — may go wrong … so that I , Jimbo , the firstborn , may step into the breach and save the day . |
| 15 | She told The Universe , the Catholic weekly : ‘ I am praying for the family and I feel very sorry for them . |
| 16 | A charter of Charles the Bald in 875 exempted the peasants of St-Philibert , Tournus , in Burgundy from market dues " whether they are trading for the abbey or for themselves " . |
| 17 | I am ordering for the week . ’ |
| 18 | " I am looking for the Reed Girl . " |
| 19 | Three hundred police are hunting for the person who has now killed seven back-packers , including two Britons , in Australia . |
| 20 | He and his crew are searching for the Land Where the Sun Goes at Night . |
| 21 | POLICE are searching for the owners of four stolen paintings . |
| 22 | Police in Thailand are searching for the driver of a bus which crashed , killing a student from Oxfordshire . |
| 23 | POLICE are searching for the driver of a crashed car who ran off leaving his passenger trapped in the wreckage . |
| 24 | ‘ We are searching for the Christ Child , ’ said the second king . |
| 25 | This is the unemployment , sometimes called frictional unemployment , which occurs because workers are searching for the jobs which suit them best . |
| 26 | FlexiLoan has been developed for customers who are looking for the freedom to spend , without the rigidity of a fixed loan . |
| 27 | They are looking for the souls of their mothers and their fathers , their women and their children , gathering in the heavens — awaiting human form , and union … |
| 28 | the japanese say they are looking for the instructions they can work a solar car but ca n't put up a tent for eats … its what you fancy … at night its noodles … come daybreak its what 's left … |
| 29 | HOUSE builders in the North West are looking for the Government to do more to stimulate sales and economic growth . |
| 30 | ‘ The figures we found are not significantly different to those anywhere else where people are looking for the problem . ’ |