Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite these finds , competition in the modelling business gets tougher every year , and agencies are constantly looking for new talent . |
| 2 | As well as spending a great deal of time servicing existing customers we are constantly looking for new opportunities in developing markets around the world . |
| 3 | They are constantly looking for these changes , especially in situations which have previously been difficult . |
| 4 | Nature , produced by Robin Hellier , has a lot of pace as did Horizon 's The Geneva event ( BBC2 , 24 January ) What the latter did not have was much patience with the aspirant but relatively unlearned student of what is going on in the world of high energy physics The main Geneva event — the identification of the W subatomic particle which , with the Z , will enable the theory that the four fundamental forces of nature can be unified within a single framework to be sustained — has yet to be announced , though it is believed imminent Horizon had been patiently filming for four years . |
| 5 | In only his second start of the season , Snodin provided the spark of midfield inspiration and stong running that Everton have been desperately searching for all season . |
| 6 | Mongolia has been desperately looking for some . |
| 7 | Reliable cause of death statistics are woefully lacking for developing countries and of less than desirable quality for many developed ones . |
| 8 | I am not looking for maximum performance or power . |
| 9 | I am not arguing for shoddy commercials . |
| 10 | ‘ It will start all sorts of speculation that we are getting back together and I am not going for that . ’ |
| 11 | But if I 've been away working for some time , it 's completely different . |
| 12 | ‘ In some areas we are already competing for that work ’ . |
| 13 | At the Poly , where we are already catering for 400 students , a new canteen designed by CCG is due to open in 1992 to serve 1000 students . |
| 14 | They have a wide range of clients , from artists and photographers to electricians , and are planning to expand — they are already looking for new offices . |
| 15 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S tour of England is under serious threat and Rugby Union chiefs are already looking for alternative opposition for their showpiece match at Twickenham on November 14 . |
| 16 | We can reveal in a world exclusive that they are already looking for more places to fly to — together . |
| 17 | The case could start a trend : two other New Mexico pueblos are already pressing for stricter water standards along their stretches of the Rio Grande . |
| 18 | These people are already preparing for that . |
| 19 | You are not aiming for some exact scientific precision ( if absolute precision is needed , you can use pen and paper ) , but you are meeting and communicating with another adult human being . |
| 20 | They are not looking for some chopped-down Open University course . ’ |
| 21 | Dr Alun Gee , NRA technical manager for the Welsh region , said , ‘ We are not looking for any relaxation in current standards ’ and the objectives will contain a ‘ no deterioration ’ clause . |
| 22 | Police say they found a hammer in the house and are not looking for any other weapon . |
| 23 | All claim that they are not writing for clever people but this does not mean that theirs is the voice of a simple , unlettered piety . |
| 24 | Will hon. Members please leave the Chamber quietly if they are not remaining for this ten-minute motion ? |
| 25 | Is this , all these wonderful protection of animals , dogs and horses and so on , and pet shops and so on , do , does the Chief Fire Officer think in his local knowledge , that most of these have been inspected by his officers , or does he get the feeling there , that sometimes the district councils are not asking for these inspections ? |
| 26 | So we 're only looking for fourteen businesses on each assignment . |
| 27 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 28 | We are very big and therefore we 're only looking for big business , is that , is that fair comment ? |
| 29 | If you get a correlation of about point seven , it means that you 're only accounting for forty nine percent , less than half , of the variants in the other var the other sets of scores Think about it , if it 's a positive , if you 've got a correlation coefficient of one , what it means is that you account for a hundred perc or or sorry , if you 're gon na make convert it to a percentage , you times it by a hundred , it 's the proportion there . |
| 30 | So we 're only asking for five hundred years . |