Example sentences of "is [v-ing] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current expenditure continued to grow in real terms , that is allowing for the effect of general inflation , but capital expenditure fell sharply ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a:5 — 6 ) . |
| 2 | Keegan 's club is building for the future on the back of 30,000 gates every home match , but the Newcastle boss refuses to discuss transfer targets and would n't comment on the Ferdinand situation yesterday . |
| 3 | ‘ Maybe , if the game was against Australia or New Zealand Alan Tait would have been preferred , but Mal Reilly is building for the future and now I have my chance I intend to make the most of it . ’ |
| 4 | His ankle is badly swollen and he is struggling for the weekend . ’ |
| 5 | If they are listened to at all , it will probably be in the bath , on a car stereo , or in some other environment where the music is competing for the listener 's attention . |
| 6 | Let us suppose your agency is competing for the account of a new skin care range . |
| 7 | Richard Feigen is sueing for the return of his painting , whereabouts now unknown |
| 8 | The couple rent a home in the resort Joe is appearing for the summer . |
| 9 | Rodney Klevan QC is appearing for the prosecution and Gilfoyle is defended by David Turner QC . |
| 10 | The government is committed to closing the plant by the end of this year , but the local nuclear lobby is pressing for the deadline to be extended , arguing that it is dangerous to close a reactor down quickly . |
| 11 | Coun Graham Morris , who represents Murton on Easington District Council , claims too many companies change their original schemes once they have got planning permission and is pressing for the matter to be brought to the attention of the Department of the Environment . |
| 12 | Wallsend-based shipbuilder Swan Hunter is bidding for the carrier contract which will be one of the Royal Navy 's biggest surface ships since the war . |
| 13 | The famous cantata Quando ridi , in which a lover claims he is dying for the sake of a beautiful mouth ? |
| 14 | Univel Inc president Joel Applebaum last month said in an interview that the Sun Microsystems Inc WABI Windows Application Binary Interface ‘ is not baked yet ’ : he thought it was good for the RISC environment but he 's content with the Windows system that Univel Inc is adopting for the iAPX-86 environment which it is apparently on the brink of shipping ; meanwhile , Univel says it is selling into Europe , South America and the Middle East . |
| 15 | JULIO ANGUITA , the leader of the Spanish Communist Party , is looking for the thief in Madrid who smashed his windscreen and broke into his car for the third time . |
| 16 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 17 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |
| 18 | The Commerce Department is looking for the book market to expand markedly up to 1997 , achieving average annual growth rated of 3.5% in constant dollars throughout the period . |
| 19 | ANIMAL lover Ray Mackinlay is looking for the owner of a lovable blind dog found wandering the streets of Darlington . |
| 20 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 21 | You might then telephone the agent and find out who is acting for the seller . |
| 22 | B could thus be an aide-memoire for MAS proposals if MAS is acting for the purchaser . |
| 23 | His wife is searching for the book because Ward told her he had it . |
| 24 | Mr Tom Bland who is training for the Diaconate also assisted . |
| 25 | We have completed a great deal and the team knows exactly how a thing must be done , so it is simply a question of completing the sequence , designing our record packaging , and also seeing how the market is developing for the video players and monitors . |
| 26 | SunSoft says it has n't worked out whether Solaris for the IBM Corp/Motorola Inc PowerPC RISC will be compatible with the PowerOpen environment that IBM is developing for the CPU , but says it 'll observe all binary standards . |
| 27 | SunSoft says it has n't worked out whether Solaris for the IBM Corp-Motorola Inc PowerPC RISC will be compatible with the PowerOpen environment that IBM is developing for the CPU , but says it will observe all binary standards . |
| 28 | Although this pressure for higher dividends is unsettling for the system of cross-shareholdings , it is unlikely to be fatal . |
| 29 | But all this could soon change : a committee of vetinary experts within the EEC is pushing for the quarantine laws to be scrapped : vets in France and Germany in particular say that vaccination is a more effective way of preventing rabies . |
| 30 | A consortium of China 's government ministries is pushing for the establishment of a second national telecommunications network , according to the South China Morning Post . |