Example sentences of "were [verb] for a new " in BNC.
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| 1 | President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine denied Tory MPs were looking for a new leader , saying : ‘ We know that so long as we keep our nerve and pursue policies that are important we can come through . |
| 2 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 3 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 4 | Erm , so what were doing is were , we hope were waiting for a new prisoner to be allocated to us , erm , and perhaps we could , perhaps we could , perhaps we can write and remind you think , think we should do that ? |
| 5 | Whether they were going for a new place , or staying , the hired hands were all given the day off to attend the Hirings . |
| 6 | Mass has been offered regularly in St Gerard 's School as funds were raised for a new church centre in Hemlington . |
| 7 | Its main aims were to press for a new constitution based on a formal state treaty and to slow the moves towards a market economy . |
| 8 | In 1944 , at the Bretton Woods conference , plans were laid for a new commercial and financial system with the formation of an International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) to deal with monetary problems and a World Bank to help with economic development . |