Example sentences of "[verb] compete for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to compete for Great Britain and myself . |
| 2 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 3 | When the effect of an additional task is to disrupt rather than facilitate performance then the two tasks are said to compete for the same " functional space " within the hemispheres . |
| 4 | As she was seeing things in the wake of her Paris win , she plans to compete for three or four more years before having a second child and giving up the tournament scene . |
| 5 | And from now until September he will be concentrating on his athletics training as he may be selected to compete for Britain in the Paralympics in Barcelona . |
| 6 | GRANNY Mary Farley is to be crowned carnival queen — because local girls could n't be bothered to compete for the title . |
| 7 | But when funding stays level and subjects begin to compete for resources , the system breaks down . |
| 8 | The cells seem to compete for survival factors released by target cells that the nerve cells contact ; about half get enough to survive , the rest kill themselves . |
| 9 | ‘ Competitive bidding ’ includes any mode of sale whereby prospective purchasers may be enabled to compete for the purchase of articles , whether by way of increasing bids or by the offer of articles to be bid for at successively decreasing prices or otherwise . ’ |
| 10 | Unless groups wishing to compete for leadership have the freedom to organize and formulate alternative programmes , the presentation of alternatives would be impossible . |
| 11 | Players from around the world , both famous professionals like Omar Sharif and amateurs like compete for major cash prizes around scattered tables . |
| 12 | Ancient dolphins might have competed for resources with seals , giant penguins , and other sea birds . |
| 13 | Since all members of a meritocracy are socialized to compete for the top jobs and instilled with ambition , failure could be particularly frustrating . |
| 14 | For too long , inflights coasted along in a crappy state for several reasons : first , the implicit assumption that if you wanted your duty-free goods sold on board then you took an ad in the mag ( so , if you 're making money anyway , why bother to make it good ? ) ; second , the mags did n't even have to compete for ad budgets with proper media , since duty-free is usually handled by a separate division with a separate ad spend ; and last , nobody cares if nobody reads it . |
| 15 | We 'll have to compete for . |
| 16 | As the teachers will have to compete for jobs on the open market , it will be important to offer them guidance on how teaching posts are obtained in the UK . |
| 17 | They would have to compete for the reduced number of jobs . |
| 18 | Those creatures that are best adapted to the environment ( the ‘ fittest ’ ) survive and reproduce and so , too , do those that are adapted to compete for mates . |
| 19 | To some degree , the MDC has been placed in a particularly onerous position because of its having to compete for industrial and commercial investment with surrounding new towns and the local enterprise zone and Freeport . |
| 20 | Their low cost means that a secretary can have a computer to herself instead of having to compete for time with many other users from other departments in the company . |
| 21 | This stage involves ambivalence , love and anger competing for priority . |
| 22 | Male common toads do compete for females , and in general , the biggest males ( those with the deepest voices ) are the most successful . |
| 23 | Males in nature do compete for females , in diverse ways : obvious physical fighting , and subtle invisible competition among sperms within the female reproductive system . |
| 24 | Griffiths believed that a greater diversity of service options would develop if the independent sector , voluntary organizations and private companies were encouraged to compete for contracts for domiciliary and residential care services : indeed , there is evidence from initiatives in services for people with mental handicap that having a multiplicity of different service providers stimulates creative innovations in services in a way which monolithic public sector services seem slow to do . |
| 25 | The leaflets , softer in tone than much of the BMA campaign , suggest that hospitals that fail to compete in the new NHS market could go bankrupt ; GPs will be forced to compete for patients , with those that take on more having less time for patients ; while ‘ opted out ’ hospitals may drop some specialist services if they are not financially viable . |
| 26 | They are going to have to compete for jobs , even in the UK , with their contemporaries who have trained elsewhere in Europe and who are competent to work in English . |
| 27 | Only the firsts are allowed to return to compete for class placements . |
| 28 | All of these elements had to compete for a limited number of unfilled vacancies in Mendeleev 's Periodic Table , like contestants in a game of cosmic musical chairs . |
| 29 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 30 | In 1987 , the service had to compete for the hospital 's laundry contract for the first time and in 1993 , it will have to submit another tender . ’ |