Example sentences of "people are [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it can be said that , when people are searching for meaning , they are at the beginning of a journey , not at the end of it . |
| 2 | ‘ What we have said in the McFarlane Report is that people are calling for the earth , we ca n't give it all but we can give them a substantial part . |
| 3 | Times may be hard in those places , but note how few people are clamouring for a return to the let's-stay-poor-together socialism of the past . |
| 4 | Only six weeks after making their solemn covenant-pledge with God the people are clamouring for a replica of the old gods of Egypt . |
| 5 | ‘ The figures we found are not significantly different to those anywhere else where people are looking for the problem . ’ |
| 6 | We have the land and the right planning framework to create new communities that do offer the sorts of housing and living conditions that many people are looking for . |
| 7 | THE Property Exchange , a new company publishing a national directory of people who want to swap homes rather than sell them ( if the properties have different values , one party pays the other the difference ) says that so far most people are looking for smaller homes . |
| 8 | But a lot of people are looking for pseudo-satisfaction through lusting after this complete stranger , and you have to accept that , fight on that terrain. , |
| 9 | You may well want to change things , adding new or different information , when you have had a little more experience of what people are looking for . |
| 10 | I know people are looking for another upset here because Sutton are a decent team , but we 're not bad ourselves . ’ |
| 11 | People are looking for something new , after twenty years of hamburger joints and pizza parlours . |
| 12 | ‘ People are looking for a change of expression and mood , ’ says Steven Meisel . |
| 13 | Their job is to find out what people are looking for when they spend their money , and to advise manufacturers and providers of services what the customer wants . |
| 14 | I think there 's less risk of you being caught then — Lee 's and your mother 's people are looking for either a single man and woman or two unrelated young people ; it seems as if they think it 's inconceivable that you should have remained together . |
| 15 | People are looking for guidance . ’ |
| 16 | ’ People are looking for us down there , Curb . |
| 17 | People are looking for an answer like this . ’ |
| 18 | Drawings can be blamed when er there is actually nothing wrong and people are looking for an excuse blame from themselves . |
| 19 | Such people are looking for help , not hindrance , from the Government . |
| 20 | People are looking for tastier beef and that comes from the Hereford cattle . |
| 21 | I find many people are looking for serviceable fabrics and colours they will not tire from quickly . |
| 22 | ‘ I realised in this day and age that people are looking for something that wee bit different , and we found with the long spell of bad weather we 've had over the summer months that people want to stay inside , ’ explained Mr Nelson . |
| 23 | ‘ People are looking for something different , ’ said Steve , a chiropodist , which seems an ideal profession to be indulging in lots of ballroom dancing , ‘ but it has to be of good quality . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ People are looking for values which have nothing to do with success . ’ |
| 25 | and more and more and more people are looking for experience , they 're looking for vocations , they 're looking for er the sort of attributes which , you know , are n't actually overflowing when you 're unemployed in Wolverhampton |
| 26 | I do believe that er we go on into the nineties the European Parliament will play an increasingly important role , but this will be because countries and peoples will be asking for it to play , to control the European Commission in Brussels , to push forward the policies which people are looking for and it is after all , I think we should recall , that it is the Germans now who are calling for strength and institutions , including increased powers for the European Parliament . |
| 27 | People are petitioning for interviews but I do not wish to talk to them . |
| 28 | As anyone will tell you , it 's easy to go over the limit , especially at this time of year when people are preparing for Christmas and buying presents . |
| 29 | Well , while two hundred thousand people are heading for Silverstone , another forty thousand are expected at RAF Brize Norton . |
| 30 | A party of physically handicapped people are heading for the sun of Majorca later this month on a holiday organised by Cleveland County Council social services . |