Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I have been serving the Turks , and am looking for better employment . |
| 2 | People are looking for tastier beef and that comes from the Hereford cattle . |
| 3 | Particularly acute problems appear to be found in the area of raising seed-corn capital ( pre start-up capital , less than £250,000 , the riskiest type of venture capital ) and that venture funds are looking for shorter term returns ( BEQB 1990 ) . |
| 4 | One is , none of the departments are resourced to give this a lot of attention , and secondly we have been waiting for further guidance from the Government on the outcome , particularly from local government , in respect of agenda twenty-one . |
| 5 | Some of the group are aiming for further education in business administration , or in other areas such as leisure and tourism . |
| 6 | Experts on the effects of head injuries are calling for better treatment for victims . |
| 7 | Neil Fairbrother 's side took just five bonus points , and the Red Rose skipper will be hoping for better luck in the four-day match against Sussex at Old Trafford on Thursday . |
| 8 | I 'm hoping for brisker trade on the road . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Those which have high clock-rate designs will add more superscalar capabilities and those with high-degree superscalar implementations will be working for higher clock rates . |
| 10 | Nursery units will also be welcomed at Springfield school , Darlington , and Evenwood , Teesdale , where parents have been campaigning for better nursery provision . |
| 11 | The police are hoping for better behaviour at the team 's parade round Swindon tomorrow night . |
| 12 | The German economy and the Bundesbank — independent , I am told — are screaming for higher interest rates . |
| 13 | The firm is looking for further growth , especially overseas , chiefly by acquisition and joint venture ; now with several clients in Australia and elsewhere in the Far East , the London office is feeling the lack of branches in that area , despite its comparative strength in the USA . |
| 14 | Special needs is one of nineteen national priority areas that will receive 70 per cent funding from the DES , as is training for further education ( FE ) staff with special needs responsibilities . |
| 15 | Anyone who simply returns to the same repetitive activity is heading for further trouble — especially if their technique is at fault . |
| 16 | ’ Everybody in the sixth form is aiming for higher education of one sort or another , it 's just as academic as anywhere else really . |
| 17 | The society is calling for higher income support , more incentives for parents to return to work and restoration of benefits to unemployed 16- and 17-year-olds . |
| 18 | A charity is calling for tougher action in the fight against solvent abuse . |
| 19 | Coun John Elders is calling for tougher action after drunken teenage vandals rampaged along the promenade at Seaton Carew , near Hartlepool , wrecking seafront chalets . |
| 20 | NOERC is calling for further electrification schemes , the adoption of the Continental loading gauge , a more flexible attitude towards the provision of regional freight depots through the use of grants payable under Section 8 of the Railways Act 1974 , and an early decision on the provision of regional inland customs clearance facilities to complement those at British Rail 's main Tunnel freight assembly point at Willesden . |
| 21 | Despite some degree of battlefield success at Dezful — in the course of which Iraq captured a number of British-made Chieftain tanks which it put on display before foreign journalists at al-Amarah in the central sector just as Iraq 's own armour , mainly Russian in origin , was gathering for further fighting at Ahwaz — Dezful did not fall either and the Iranians were far from having been routed . |
| 22 | He expressed Yugoslavia 's wish for closer economic ties with the EC , and was looking for further aid . |
| 23 | As he was a very intellectual artist , he was the ideal figure to take over from Metzinger the task of transmitting the principles of Cubism to the other painters ; and since he joined the group at a moment when the movement was striving for greater definition , his influence and importance can not be overestimated . |
| 24 | Sophie was asking for better proof . |
| 25 | That is why , when the French economy was screaming for lower interest rates , President Mitterrand increased them the other day . |