Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restaurant chain TGI Friday 's is using it for its first UK ad campaign , launched this month . |
| 2 | These are claimed by the purchaser of an industrial building who is using it for his or her own trade or leasing it to another for that person 's trade , at the rate of 4% per annum on cost . |
| 3 | The system is using it for itself , but you can not run away from the fact that it has helped a lot of women to pursue careers rather than to sit down and nurse babies . |
| 4 | Tank manufacturer Vickers , for example , is using it for a major contract in Africa . |
| 5 | MIPS is preening itself for getting the R4400 upgrade out in the timeframe it predicted it would a year ago . |
| 6 | Shares of the £11 billion company , privatised in 1986 , had already started to slide last night and the market is bracing itself for big falls today . |
| 7 | ENGLISH football is bracing itself for an invasion of South African soccer talent . |
| 8 | The print industry is bracing itself for industrial action from next Monday , Printing World reports . |
| 9 | RAF fear : The RAF is bracing itself for compulsory redundancies after the news that 2,200 jobs must go . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Belfast is bracing itself for a vicious war between rival republican terror groups over drugs . |
| 11 | PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino of the Philippines is bracing herself for a legal battle over her decision not to allow the remains of the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , to be returned home from Hawaii for burial . |
| 12 | ‘ Cup places are up for grabs and I 'll be watching carefully tomorrow to see if any player is saving himself for the semi-final , ’ said Malone . |
| 13 | SunSoft is selling it for $295 single-user . |
| 14 | He apologizes and hands me a note : Sir Thomas Fairfax is expecting me for dinner at Folly Farm . |
| 15 | ‘ Grandfather is expecting us for tea in the summer-house . ’ |
| 16 | The Wantage white horses swim club are off to the Palace tomorrow … that 's the Crystal one … world number one Mark Foster is coaching them for the day … |
| 17 | Put into plain English , these are who is doing what for whom , and to whom are they answerable , what assumptions are being made , and in what environment is this happening ? |
| 18 | She will think she is losing me for ever . |
| 19 | The honourable gentlemen is asking me for procedural advice across floor of the house , which he knows that I do not volunteer . |
| 20 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 21 | Sedgemore has improved so much since entering top grade rugby that club coach Alex Evans is tipping him for international honours . |
| 22 | Under a previous agreement , Unir is implementing it for iAPX-86 . |
| 23 | DESPITE a memorable victory over Ukrainian side Karpaty Lvov in the European Cup Winners Cup on Wednesday , Shelbourne midfielder Paul Doolin is taking nothing for granted as his former club Derry City visit Tolka Park this afternoon . |
| 24 | Hooper is taking nothing for granted as Souness contemplates his line-up for the vital clash , his latest worry being Michael Thomas ' ankle injury which makes him doubtful with Steve McManaman . |
| 25 | Hooper is taking nothing for granted as Souness contemplates his line-up for the vital clash , his latest worry being Michael Thomas ' ankle injury which makes him doubtful with Steve McManaman . |
| 26 | ‘ Jim Wilson , the ship 's chandler , is storing them for you until you get settled . ’ |
| 27 | GRAHAM GOOCH is preparing himself for one last big effort as an England Test captain on a foreign field . |
| 28 | It is more likely that the Secretary of State for the Environment is preparing us for what used to be called ribbon development and pock-marked urban sprawl stretching from Stratford to Southend , with unfettered market forces destroying the flora and fauna and every living thing that gets in its way . |
| 29 | But , with the polls pointing to a hung Parliament , the Whitehall village of permanent civil servants is preparing itself for what one source described as the ‘ nightmare scenario ’ of neither Mr Kinnock nor Mr Major having enough MPs to form a Government or to push a Queen 's Speech through the Commons on May 6 . |
| 30 | No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors . |