Example sentences of "is [v-ing] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Focos is currently Fulbright Fellow in Sweden , and is completing research for a book on Zorn . |
| 2 | The company is understood to have abandoned development of the Repository altogether , and the switch of strategy leaves the whole AD/Cycle concept in complete disarray , though the company says that it is reaffirming support for the AD/Cycle tools available : to do anything else would leave the company open to all manner of retaliation from AD/Cycle International Alliance Members . |
| 3 | Pantograph car 167 was first to leave Blackpool in 1962 , but is returning fully-restored for the Centenary in 1985 . |
| 4 | The prisoner is serving life for blasting his former girlfriend to death with a sawn-off shotgun because she knew too much about his underworld dealings . |
| 5 | Dryden , 55 , is serving life for the murder of council planning boss Harry Collinson . |
| 6 | A 33-year-old man is serving life for the killing . |
| 7 | Dahmer is serving life for murdering 17 men , including 15 butchered in Milwaukee , Wisconsin . |
| 8 | John Shaw is serving life for manslaughter . |
| 9 | The correspondence has even led to romance — the daughter hopes to marry a man who is serving life for shooting his wife.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 10 | Christie will be bridesmaid when Anna Moore , who has served ten years of a life sentence , marries a loyalist killer , Bobby Corry , who is serving life for killing three people in a pub bombing in 1972 . |
| 11 | Sex symbol Bo — who once appeared in a Tarzan film — is seeking help for zoo animals left homeless after the destruction caused by Hurricane Andrew in Miami . |
| 12 | In the first case a woman is seeking compensation for the death in 1962 of her 10-month-old daughter from leukaemia ; the girl 's father worked as a fitter at Sellafield for nearly 30 years and has since also died of cancer . |
| 13 | ‘ He is seeking compensation for the distress and inconvenience . ’ |
| 14 | One of Britain 's leading space engineers is seeking backing for a rocket plane which would fly from London to Sydney in just one hour . |
| 15 | She is seeking funding for a range of projects from tailoring and knitting bazaars to poultry raising . |
| 16 | Finally , the college is seeking funding for general SVQ programmes in business administration , care , and technology for unemployed workers . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , in Eritrea , to the north , a de facto ceasefire is holding between the government and the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) , which is seeking independence for Eritrea . |
| 18 | The IBOA is seeking parity for the Bank Official Grade under three headings : — Parity of Pay with Bank Official Grades , Parity of Career Prospects , that is a direct progression to the top of the SBO Scale , Parity of Pension Entitlement . |
| 19 | They say Mrs Aquino is seeking revenge for the murder of her husband Benigno ‘ Ninoy ’ Aquino , at Manila airport in 1983 . |
| 20 | Mrs Amin , now living at Gilmore Place , Edinburgh , is seeking decree for the return of £36,593.33 withdrawn from building society accounts . |
| 21 | But none the less the community is expressing support for the FDR-FMLN in ways which it is really surprising to see . |
| 22 | The aim of RE according to the phenomenologists is promoting respect for , and understanding of , religion and its significance for behaviour in such a way as to leave intact pupils ' integrity — it is not educating into religion in any way , but educating about religion understood as more than information because involving a positive and creative approach to pluralism . |
| 23 | A whole city is turning Japanese for a week , to celebrate its links with the land of the Rising Sun . |
| 24 | Not surprising , when the corner-shop grocer is selling cabbage for 40% of the supermarket price . |
| 25 | Tony Dallimore is Windsurfing Manager for the RYA . |
| 26 | Thereafter , the scenery deteriorates as a bleak moorland is crossed to the end of the road at Red Point where there is parking space for cars and a cairn and view-indicator nearby . |
| 27 | Edward Hirst , whose 11-year-old son is undergoing treatment for leukaemia , said : ‘ Our message to the Government is ‘ Come and have a look at the work that is done here ’ . |
| 28 | Coppice worker Bill Foreman , who is harvesting wood for a river stabilisation project , and his dog Meg in the woodland he manages near Sproughton |
| 29 | The US Congress is considering legislation for limited tort reform , he added , but that is not expected to progress before the end of the year . |
| 30 | The British public is increasingly distrustful of industry on environmental issues and there is rising support for the idea that " the polluter pays " , according to Bob Worcester , chairman of market research firm MORI , which has been tracking attitudes to the environment since 1969 . |