Example sentences of "he is [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the completion of the acquisition of Framlington 's private client fund management business in January and the recruitment of five new investment managers in Liverpool , he is looking for increased investment revenues in this year . |
| 2 | He is calling for good conditions for traders at the new pitches in Tarleton Street , Williamson Square and Paradise Street . |
| 3 | He is to ask for all-party support of the event at next week 's council meeting . |
| 4 | He is to ask for all-party support at next week 's council meeting . |
| 5 | NICKY MASON , ranked No.5 , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory over the Soviet Union at Worthing on Thursday night that he is pushing for regular inclusion in the England team . |
| 6 | He is pushing for initial funding of $A5 million rising to $A15 million in three years . |
| 7 | He is aiming for full employment by Keynesian means , redistribution of wealth through jobs , not taxes . |
| 8 | Lenders to the bidder who require the target and its subsidiaries to provide authorised financial assistance under CA 1985 , s155 ( see para 22.1.7 below ) , without the prospect of minority opposition , may prefer a Court Scheme for this reason , as may the bidder if he is paying for costly bridging finance in the interim . |
| 9 | He is applying for judicial review of a decision by the council 's professional conduct committee to prefer the less serious charge of breach of proper professional standards , which leads to an admonition . |
| 10 | Jon Stratton has suggested that he is needed for ideological reasons too ( 1983 ) : in Stratton 's view , the ‘ romantic ’ image of the creative artist is no false veneer nor confined to ‘ mass culture ’ , but part of a larger tradition , within which the dialectic of ‘ romanticism ’ and commodification is basic to capitalist culture as such ; thus it implicates the ‘ individualism ’ of , say , Beethoven as well as that of pop stars and composers . |