Example sentences of "and be [v-ing] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | National coach David Tillotson said : ‘ We have made significant progress this year and are aiming for a place in the top two at Barcelona . ’ |
| 2 | Turkish maritime experts are warning of the dangers of an increase in oil and gas traffic through the crowded Bosphorus and are calling for a revision of the 1963 Montreux Convention , which guarantees freedom of navigation through the waterway . |
| 3 | Scottish fishermen 's representatives are opposing an all-out ban and are calling for a series of restrictions on imports until there is a balanced supply at the markets . |
| 4 | Many investors have profits to take and are looking for a reason to sell . |
| 5 | Wivenhoe Town have never won the competition and are looking for a first success to complete a meteoric rise to the summit of the Essex non-league football hierarchy . |
| 6 | It is important , however , to remember that people receiving such a therapy are seriously ill , and are hoping for a chance of improved health or longer life . |
| 7 | And are hoping for a Twickenham meeting with either Kidderminster Carolians or Hitchin in the finals . |
| 8 | But we 're now reasonably confident that we will continue to increase over the next few years and are budgeting for a modest growth . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm a 27 year old male on kidney dialysis and am looking for a computer to use at home with the long-term objective of working in computer programming . |
| 10 | The Defa studios in the East Berlin suburb of Badelsburg are no longer the crumbling , work-shy , institutionalized dump they were two years ago when we began this project and were looking for a home for it . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Microsoft ( who , incidentally , were then engaged in legal battle with Apple ) had bought a PostScript clone vendor , Bauer Technologies , and were looking for a font technology for OS/2 's Presentation Manager . |
| 12 | It was that sort of occasion 500 women , many of them wearing posh hats and even posher outfits that they 'd bought for weddings and were longing for a chance to wear again . |
| 13 | After an amazing cross country round yesterday with her agile horse Knockdrin Vina finished in first position with 49 points after the dressage , and is hoping for a clear round today to win the £1,500 national championship and title . |
| 14 | The basis of the traditional antipathy of churches to gambling is that it can encourage greed , become addictive and is looking for a reward that has not been earned either by virtue or by effort . |
| 15 | The teenager said she has now given up smoking and is looking for a job . |
| 16 | Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment , has proposed a tough set of targets for more than 300 environmental initiatives and is pushing for a commitment to a number of green taxes . |
| 17 | She found him another job and is paying for a private nurse . |
| 18 | The foundation has appointed more trustees and is advertising for a new chief executive . |
| 19 | The company has just cancelled its contract with BASF for chrome tape and is opting for a cheaper brand of conventional ferric oxide tape . |
| 20 | He avoids racial slurs — although at one point in an interview he referred to blacks as ‘ gang-bangers ’ — and is running for a Republican seat on the city council of Aurora , a Denver suburb . |
| 21 | Supporters of both sides could enjoy such matches and the crowd two years later back up in Scotland was enormous and was hoping for a repeat of the excitement . |
| 22 | He confesses that at the age of 40 he had reached ‘ the proverbial midlife crisis ’ and was searching for a different way of life . |
| 23 | She had innate sense of good movement and was searching for a system embodying those principles which fulfilled her concept of the art of movement and teaching its technique . |
| 24 | He had just won the Cannes Palme d'Or for Mission , and was looking for a new challenge . |
| 25 | She had just arrived and was looking for a cheap hotel . |
| 26 | He was born to be King and was looking for a princess . |
| 27 | He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced . |
| 28 | Earlier that year he had met a merchant from London who had money to spare and was looking for a likely speculation and Harry , being in the right place at the right time for once , had sold him the idea of investing in a privateering cruise to the Americas . |
| 29 | I currently had a Cavalier SRi and was looking for a GSi . |
| 30 | Well , she was actually called Marian Evans and was looking for a masculine name to writer under . |