Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] for the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE than 300 Whitbread Inns are competing for the Grants of St James ' Wine Awards . |
| 2 | Now the Australians are bidding for the Olympics in the year 2000 , the plan being to hoist the Olympic rings at the SCG . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | POLICE are searching for the owners of four stolen paintings . |
| 5 | This is the unemployment , sometimes called frictional unemployment , which occurs because workers are searching for the jobs which suit them best . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | And we have that purpose if we know in advance that we are looking for the answers to certain questions , or that we will be asked to carry out certain tasks as a result of viewing . |
| 9 | The students do not conduct the experiments with a detached eye ; rather , they are looking for the results predicted in the textbook . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're headin' for the guys who 're doin' all the shootin' up ahead … the ones we hid from in the tunnel back there … they must be friends of his … maybe cops or somethin' … if Angel One did n't want them to find us … ’ |
| 11 | They work for those and algebra just follows , so it just follows the normal rules that we 're using for the numbers that we know . |
| 12 | They 're heading for the courts . |
| 13 | WE 'RE HEADING FOR THE ROCKS |
| 14 | Now hopefully , Dick said they 're palletizing while they 're waiting for the containers they 're also palletizing the rest of that stuff . |
| 15 | In fact its name still adorns the large office block in Paddock Wood — they 're waiting for the Friends of Felix Dhjerzinsky to come and remove it — but below is enscribed the new and politically squeaky-clean name of ‘ English Hops ’ . |
| 16 | Supposing you run out of hotplates and there 's no space to heat up the gravy , or will the sprouts get cold while you 're waiting for the potatoes to cook ? |
| 17 | He 's he 's not come yet so erm Perhaps while while we 're waiting for the others I 'll just say a few words about the building , because erm from out here you can see er quite clearly that the central portion of the building is the oldest erm from if you look at the state of the stonework . |
| 18 | Perhaps they 're waiting for the police to lose interest . ’ |
| 19 | I think the only danger of looking at E D P , is that if we 're doing for the guys in the office , then what do we do with the supervisors ? |
| 20 | we 're assuming for the purposes of the argument that you have n't , I mean it 's got ta be , you 've got other defences altogether er and indeed terms of which I have n't made my mind up yet , but with judgement and your duty of care erm may themselves solve this particular problem |
| 21 | but of course we 're assuming for the purposes of the argument that er , that erm , your that is a matter of Eng English law , the matters of which you make complaint are a defence or set off |
| 22 | You 're working for the Israelis now , are n't you ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ At the moment we are waiting for the Americans . |
| 24 | Mr Heseltine and Michael Howard , the environment secretary , have both written to their German opposite numbers , and are waiting for the Germans to react . |
| 25 | The Health Authority say they are waiting for the results of national pay talks before coming to an agreement with their clerical workers . |
| 26 | Yeah , what have they , those people who are waiting for the police to check it out , the is it ? |
| 27 | Those in work are paying for the pensions of those past retirement age at the current time , rather than for their own pensions in the future . |
| 28 | Every hour we are paying for the services of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , at an annual salary of £63,047 . |
| 29 | Certainly , some tough market-building decisions are looming for the Germans — in particular , attempts to create European regimes for road transport and the insurance business that will hurt German interests . |
| 30 | 12–12:30 is a little early for me — it 's my first time in london so i guess i will go for a sight-seeing or something … except to see me around 13:00–13:30. anyone know if the shops are open in newcastle on sunday ? we are going for the newcastle-scousers game . |