Example sentences of "which [pron] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against both Yeovil and Scarborough we are prepared to accept a David and Goliath situation in which everyone is pulling for little David . ’ |
| 2 | You just get a feeling that one actor is going to give you that certain something which you 're looking for . |
| 3 | You can use a submersible pump , which you 're using for a fountain or cascade to empty most of the water , but only do this to the level of the pump intake — then it 's a matter of bailing out with a bucket . |
| 4 | Your branch recently contacted the Parish Council about a sealed item which you are holding for us . |
| 5 | the election for which you are applying for an absent vote ; |
| 6 | It was enough that the girl had made the shoes which she was wearing for this special occasion , she certainly had no place in this night of Emily 's triumph . |
| 7 | Advice on ISDN2 , which we are considering for telephone system . |
| 8 | Erm elsewhere in my statement I have indicated an appropriate provision of employment land which is related to the population size which we are suggesting for the new settlement . |
| 9 | We have already seen how naturally the need to fit a certain number of half wavelengths into an interval leads to discreteness and it is some way of introducing a radical discreteness into mechanics which we are looking for . |
| 10 | A contact in Spain has managed to acquire a scarce publication which we were looking for , and has given the Library a copy . |
| 11 | They are considering now short-term leases rather than sell on the market as it is at the present , and they are including the clinic in the buildings for which they are looking for alternative uses . |
| 12 | On this occasion , some of their bags were contained in the white diplomatic bag belonging to the Foreign Office , which they were using for convenience to contain their consignment — — and , as I have explained to the House , that was the commencement of the error in question which , of course , we very much regret . |
| 13 | For example , it included costs which ought more properly to have been included in their bill relating to the divorce proceedings , in which they were acting for the father . |
| 14 | So although there is not as yet any definitive question , any definitive answer to this same question which was raised by Mr a couple of years ago , it is under consideration and we would hope that the sort of answer which he is hoping for might be forthcoming from that source . |
| 15 | The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 . |
| 16 | Understandably nervous , and no doubt a little distracted and distraught both with his loved one 's untimely departure and that which he was planning for himself , he resorted without a thought to his habitual method of calming himself down , and lit a Marlboro . |
| 17 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |