Example sentences of "one [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 2 | It could be argued that the proposed phonemes and ( if one were arguing for the one-phoneme analysis ) have distributions similar to other consonants , while other combinations of plosive plus fricative do not . |
| 3 | It can take time to find exactly where the records one is searching for are kept . |
| 4 | Although a two-state success/failure branch for components and systems is often used , this may be inadequate when we have to examine partial successes or failures ; this treatment for the plant might well produce thousands of sequences , so these are usually grouped into a small set of typical sequence states that will be bounding in terms of the consequences one is looking for . |
| 5 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 6 | Behaviour which is hard to explain , if one is looking for moral consistency , makes underlying sense , if one thinks in terms of power . |
| 7 | Therefore , it is said , one is looking for the actual cost of providing that benefit for the employee . |
| 8 | He must , as Ardener demonstrates , seek to sow ‘ semantic grain and grow theoretical crystals ’ which he may well appreciate no one is asking for . |
| 9 | Lot number sixty eight Lot sixty eight is another one there we are that one is showing for a hundred pounds at one ten , one twenty , one thirty bid , and s one forty one fifty sixty one seventy eighty one ninety two hundred two twenty two forty two forty bid at the back and selling for two forty , all done at two hundred and forty . |
| 10 | The gain in precision by taking two biopsy samples compared with one is striking for both methods ; this effect is because of variation between biopsy specimens within subjects . |
| 11 | This one 's going for a walk |
| 12 | ‘ This one 's waiting for a guy to come back from some big-shit business deal . |
| 13 | ‘ World Day of the Sick ’ is a special time of prayer and sharing , of offering one 's suffering for the good of the Church and of reminding everyone to see in his sick brother or sister the face of Christ who , by suffering , dying and rising , achieved the salvation of mankind . |
| 14 | At that stage in his career no one was looking for a hit-machine : the longer heads realised that it was a difficult job to scale the face of Broadway — as it was in the West End — with so few footholds and even fewer helping ropes dangling down to give you a lift . |
| 15 | Strolling rather than walking he reached the point where the footpath to Trebyan left the road ; it was by no means obvious unless one was looking for it : a ditch , a screen of willows , and a stile all but covered with ivy . |
| 16 | ‘ If there was , it escaped notice , ’ said Owen , ‘ and no one was looking for such signs , well it might pass them by . |
| 17 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
| 18 | No one was hunting for Randolph Henry Ash , after all . |
| 19 | ‘ In the fort I saw the finest set of buildings in the world — but no one was caring for them . |