Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | While you are allowing extra stitches for the cables in the tension , do not omit to allow stitches for seams when you are working out these unusual pattern shapes . |
| 2 | Tony Farrow has been building one-off yachts for 20 years and is well known for the trimaran Colt Cars GB , Geoff Panell 's Admiral 's Cup triallist Itzanotherpurla re-named Red Stripe and more recently used by the RAF as a test bench under the name of Oracle Arrow in preparation for this year 's Admiral 's Cup . |
| 3 | Hilary , who 's been producing religious programmes for BBC radio , has not yet decided whether she 'll go back to work after having the baby . |
| 4 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street 's investment bankers were starting to dry up . |
| 6 | After Sky losses of up to A$250m ( £126.3m ) , analysts are forecasting net profits for the year to June 1990 of about A$370m , which compares with a reported A$464m for 1989 , excluding foreign exchange dealings . |
| 7 | Members range from major companies who have been using home-based workers for years to self-employed solicitors , translators and public relations people . |
| 8 | Architects and developers are submitting ambitious plans for what 's become one of the most valuable stretches of land in Europe . |
| 9 | Yet Iraq has been acquiring German weapons for years and Germany is now pledging , for the umpteenth time , finally to block the holes in its arms-export controls . |
| 10 | Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim . |
| 11 | The chief inspector added that he and colleagues at the Halesowen driving school had been pressing senior officers for months to re-introduce the two-week intensive training course dropped in 1989 . |
| 12 | Mitra attacked a secret visit by Ramos to Switzerland in mid-February , hinting that Ramos had been seeking foreign funds for his campaign . |
| 13 | FOUR FUN-LOVING PHYSIOS who are into manipulating , massage and palpating muscular men are seeking hunky bodies for perfecting our techniques- Photos preferred- How can you resist us ? |
| 14 | It was translated to Russian and became a popular minicomputer product in the former Soviet Union , where more than 600 mid-range machines have been operating Pick-based applications for the past 10 years . |
| 15 | Two of the most notorious , Angelo Paccione and Anthony Vulpis , are serving 12-year terms for illegal dumping . |
| 16 | The organisers reject claims they 're building false hopes for the children who face an uncertain future at home . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's a tendency , ’ he says , ‘ to be very Pollyannaish when you 're getting million-dollar offers for five weeks of work . |
| 18 | You could also erm , start to recognize the benefit of the rural sector , and one reason why they were discriminating , L D Cs tended to want to ignore that and sort of shun it , because it 's not sort of a glamorous image they were trying to hope for in the urban sector , and , so , if they did help them , say give them units , like the repair men , units to work in , and they put them in really totally crappy accommodation , and up not where you need it , and not where people pass by with their motors and things , they , they 'd put them somewhere up on a hill , overlooking a city , so erm , to encourage the informal sector by erm , sort of on a par with the formal sector because erm , their inter- reacting , inter-relating now , like they 're providing cheap inputs for the formal industries and , and the formal industries are pro providing clientele all for the informal sector , and so it 's all inter-linked and , and it 's there now . |
| 19 | The police say the majority of people dealing in ecstasy are smart , entrepreneurial types selling to young naive people and they 're charging massive prices for what may be ecstasy , but could be something far more dangerous . |
| 20 | You 're making puerile excuses for yourself , little lad . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ They have been leading separate lives for years now . |
| 22 | I have n't been selling snide Rolexes for nothing , you know . ’ |
| 23 | I have been growing small plots for some years , but have not yet solved the problem of threshing . |
| 24 | In the USA in the 1990s there appears to be a wide recognition of the need to maintain the political system and these concerns are superseding previous motivations for partnerships . |
| 25 | Gendarmes have been teaching French schoolchildren for twenty years , and claim by teaching kids , they teach their parents as well . |
| 26 | SCIAF has been supporting income-generation schemes for AIDS sufferers in Uganda as well as training and counselling , and it is expected that demands for assistance with AlDS-related projects will increase substantially in the next few years . |
| 27 | ‘ We are considering various options for the surplus land associated with the housing stock , ’ added . |
| 28 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 29 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 30 | C&P has been spreading environmental messages for many years in many ways . |