Example sentences of "and [noun] [noun pl] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a slowly burgeoning market for this type of entertainment , with many music and arts societies looking for such a programme . |
| 2 | The report was prepared by decommissioning and decontamination experts working for AEA Technology , the authority 's commercial arm . |
| 3 | The state-run daily al-Jumhuriya had carried on Sept. 8 a statement signed by Kurdish , Sunni and Shia intellectuals appealing for the liberalization of Iraq 's single-party political system . |
| 4 | From the 1840s public anxiety had also been focused on prostitution , the ‘ great social evil ’ , by studies from evangelical clerics and medics , and by rescue and reform societies campaigning for a police crackdown on the London streets . |
| 5 | The Burgage is close to Cheltenham race course and race goers heading for the first day of the Cheltenham Gold Cup meeting were diverted away from the murder house . |
| 6 | The streets were full of theatre-goers , tourists and buskers and ticket touts looking for the tourist theatre-goer . |
| 7 | Domestic passenger air traffic was considerably disrupted on March 4 , 1989 , when pilots and flight attendants working for Eastern Airlines went on strike . |
| 8 | Ethnic minority groups account for 5 per cent of the population , Indians , Pakistani , Bangladeshi and West Indians accounting for just 1 per cent each of the population overall ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | The London International Stock Exchange yesterday voted to bring the costly Taurus paperless trading fiasco to an end and kill the project , and the Bank of England established a task force on securities settlement following an approach by the Stock Exchange , to consider best way forward for development of securities settlement , share registration and share transfer in the UK and to identify possible alternatives to Taurus , having regard to speed of implementation , cost , ownership , governance and financing , as well as system structure , to recommend a preferred option and to make recommendations for managing its implementation and to report to the governor of the Bank of England by the end of June 1993 at the latest ; the abandonment of project , which cost the Exchange £75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 10 | The abandonment of the project , which cost the Exchange 75m and City firms preparing for it a lot more , cost 220 direct employees and another 130 contractors their jobs . |
| 11 | It makes a perfect base and not just for enthusiastic golfers and golf societies looking for an ideal location . |
| 12 | The potential customers are hungry Phoenix developers and construction workers heading for the battered remains of Kuwait city . |
| 13 | The Galileo group of end users and system integrators pushing for a common graphical front-end on different types of computers are to meet during UniForum in San Francisco this month : a couple of the Baby Bells and Mitre Corp are said to be latest converts to the cause . |
| 14 | The Galileo group of end users and system integrators pushing for a common graphical front-end on different types of computers are to meet during the Uniforum show in San Francisco next month : a couple of the Baby Bells and Mitre Corp are said to be latest converts to the cause ( UX Nos 415 , 423 ) . |
| 15 | On extended expeditions there were occasions when he would break or lose even his spares , and I would find myself combing deserted beaches and jungle tracks looking for a small circle of glass on which , I was acutely aware , rested the success or failure of an entire project . |
| 16 | These residuals are then the new X and Y values controlling for Z , and we can fit a line to the relationship between residual Y versus residual X . |
| 17 | Between January and June agreements providing for visa-free travel were signed with Austria , Finland , West Germany and Italy . |
| 18 | The hsdR , hsdM and hsdS genes coding for R· Eco K restriction endonuclease , both with and without a temperature sensitive mutation ( ts-1 ) in the hsdS gene , were cloned in pBR322 plasmid and introduced into E.coli C3-6 . |