Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these were some of the more welcome changes following the end of the Second World War , which were transforming life for people living in the countryside . |
| 2 | Elizabeth Addams lived next door , Thomas Addams was still at work in his smith 's shop , Thomas Burge had taken over as the Bristol carrier , and the Clement family were producing cloth for all they were worth in workshops at the end of the street . |
| 3 | The former soldiers were demanding payment for taking early retirement under Chamorro 's plan which drastically reduced the size of the army . |
| 4 | Dr Norris said the doctors were demanding protection for all health care ‘ homicide ’ . |
| 5 | No longer were people in small communities sharing the necessities of life , but they were using money for everything . |
| 6 | Just 20 years ago , half of us were eating bacon for breakfast before starting work in the morning . |
| 7 | It was that in no way was I going to bring a coffin from Stoke-on-Trent to Llandderfel on the roof-rack of a Metro and that they were driving north for the weekend and would stop off and pick it up on the way home . |
| 8 | In half-a-dozen cases during 1989 , the court made it much harder for blacks , Hispanics and women who were seeking compensation for job discrimination . |
| 9 | They were compiling information for a guide to the Great British pub-goer . |
| 10 | Then at the end of the quarter you were getting dividend for twenty people . |
| 11 | This will act as a yardstick by which industry and local authorities could check they were getting value for money , he said . |
| 12 | And at the end of the day you would be into relating what people do in their job descriptions to whether you were getting value for money from those members of staff . |
| 13 | Members of suitable quality were needed , but members must feel that they were getting value for money . |
| 14 | We were expected to put our hands in our pockets and shell out regardless of whether or not we were getting value for money . |
| 15 | Fortunately , his fame had not yet reached the gutters so the winos were not aware that they were providing material for a movie star 's performance . |
| 16 | It was as though he were dictating material for a paper in one of the journals or addressing a class of senior students . |
| 17 | Mr Lang said a minority of parents were undermining schooling for all children through allowing truancy , failing to teach the difference between right and wrong and leaving education to schools . |
| 18 | Both had undergone extensive cosmetic surgery following their escape and , at the time of their re-arrest , they were attending hospital for follow-up treatment . |
| 19 | When Ian Thomson and the current editor of The Ley Hunter , Paul Devereux were doing fieldwork for their book The Ley Hunter 's Companion , they visited the crypt and found that the needle of their compass maintained a strange rhythmic ‘ jigging ’ motion . |
| 20 | If you were giving outline for building , it would be different . |
| 21 | Delays for defendants in trials on indictment were giving cause for concern in 1975 , when the James Committee reported , but at that stage over 70 per cent . |
| 22 | States used them to discover whether schools were giving value for money . |
| 23 | No longer did the garrison feel that their sufferings were taking place for the amusement of the crowd . |
| 24 | Since , when he became Minister of Internal Affairs in the 1860s , Valuev was not to be noted for liberalism , it appeared that the new reign and the effects of the war were creating enthusiasm for change in places where it tended , under normal circumstances , to be rare . |
| 25 | Worries that the relocated employees faced were finding employment for relocated spouses and ensuring that the relocation did not affect children 's schooling . |
| 26 | Astrologers ( not including medium Jeanne Dixon ) were predicting re-election for President John F Kennedy right up to the time of his assassination . |
| 27 | She had been his nurse when he was a little boy , she had told Sally-Anne when they were preparing dinner for him one evening . |
| 28 | A party meeting was to be held on the following Monday and the Whips were making preparation for a vote to be taken . |
| 29 | Sycorax was lying in the common pit , alongside the cadavers of islanders who had also been caught in the fighting , and were awaiting return for burial under the terms of the peace . |
| 30 | By introducing a per capita tax , it was the government 's aim to draw every adult 's attention to exactly how much their local services were costing and to encourage them to assess whether they were receiving value for money . |