Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [n mass] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In El Salvador , US grants are building barracks for demobilised FMLN guerrillas ; in Nicaragua , General Humberto Ortega , brother of the Sandinista ex-president , Daniel , recently aroused a storm by pinning the Sandinistas ' highest military medal on the chest of the US military attacheé . |
| 2 | Others are using multimedia for building planning and maintenance ; Andersen Consulting in the US is developing a database which contains video images showing the location of power cables , water pipes and telephone lines . |
| 3 | Analysts are forecasting £40m for the full year . |
| 4 | John and Jenny have been keeping fish for nearly six years . |
| 5 | Old Fishfinger has been keeping fish for more than ninety years . |
| 6 | He claims to have been keeping fish for more than ninety years — and in some cases as little as ninety minutes . |
| 7 | At present , YTP courses are training people for jobs that are n't there or else training them in customer contact skills . |
| 8 | Afterwards he went by way of St Basil 's Terrace , looking as Sophia had done earlier at the newly done up houses with their prettily painted front doors and rather self-conscious window-boxes and bay trees in tubs , when a woman 's voice called out behind him , ‘ Good evening vicar — been getting fish for pussy ? ’ |
| 9 | Agents Constables are asking £995,000 for Bowden House in Devon |
| 10 | New York private dealer William Beadleston had been asking $725,000 for ‘ La Fleur de Barbe ’ , an oil on paper by Jean Dubuffet of 1959 . |
| 11 | I 'm cooking fish for lunch for my father . |
| 12 | Ramsay will be recruiting staff for the bigger company . |
| 13 | Shelford , the tour captain , will no longer be asking £500 for personal appearances and is understood already to have set about ‘ dismantling ’ those that had been arranged . |
| 14 | Some elderly people suffer from iron deficiency due to a very slight , and sometimes unrecognisable , blood loss from such conditions as piles , diverticulitis , hiatus hernia — and occasionally bleeding from the stomach , if they have been taking aspirin for rheumatism daily for long periods , and this may cause anaemia . |
| 15 | Dr Johnny Birks has been studying mink for many years and he admits with some reluctance that this extremely successful marten may have contributed to the vole 's decline . |
| 16 | The chairman had been introducing people for an eternity , and still no sign of him . |
| 17 | They are standing ln for the WRAC Staff Band Who are away on an important engagement in Eastbourne and Who have only recently returned from a tour in BAOR . |
| 18 | Heaven knows , I 've been telling people for years , and , strangely , it is n't entirely untrue . |
| 19 | You 've been telling people for two years that you 'll never be an investigator again . |
| 20 | Nottingham Forest 's new manager Frank Clark is demanding £5m for Keane but says Blackburn have only offered £3.5m . |
| 21 | Examples from the August bulletin include a growing North Staffordshire company involved in decorating and printing bone chinaware , earthenware , glassware and so on , which is seeking £30,000 for expansion , and a company based in the south west that has launched a range of power cables and requires £75,000 . |
| 22 | Swiss drugs giant Roche is paying £90m for the business , which includes Sanatogen vitamins . |
| 23 | ENGINEER FKI , based in Halifax , West Yorkshire , is paying £3.5m for the Forge France group of companies , the market leader in the lifting components market in France . |
| 24 | Inchcape is paying £40.4m for the holding , with an option to take its stake to 24.6% by paying another £41m by July next year . |
| 25 | MICROFILM Reprographics , the microfilming company , is paying $5.3m for the micrographic division of American Management Systems of Washington . |
| 26 | The Midland Bank , as the major sponsor , is paying £20,000 for the privilege of being two corners in the game , and having its name and logo on all the notes used in the game . |
| 27 | SO Lady Thatcher is getting £80,000 for an after-dinner speech . |
| 28 | Mintel , which is charging £1,200 for a copy of the report , estimates that £450 million will be spent on alternative medicine this year , mainly on consultation fees . |
| 29 | BRITISH officials and players will be keeping a close eye on developments when New Zealand arrive for their 13-match tour of Wales and Ireland tomorrow after hearing that Wayne Shelford , the All Blacks captain , is charging £500 for each personal appearance during the visit . |
| 30 | British Airways is charging £79 for round-trip flights ex-Heathrow to Belfast , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Newcastle . |