Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | City were looking to make the effort for a promotion spot when entertaining a side from the bottom half of the table , after being held to a draw last week . |
| 2 | The clergy were beginning to pay the price for assessing their own tax in their own assembly . |
| 3 | Just as education , literacy and communications were beginning to prepare the workers for new radical organizations their attention and savings were captured by opportunistic entrepreneurs with a very different set of values . |
| 4 | Fortunately for the British government even Eisenhower and Dulles were beginning to accept the need for a summit , not least because they were anxious not to lose the propaganda initiative to the USSR . |
| 5 | On April 6 Parys had claimed at a televised meeting with army officers that politicians were preparing to use the army for " political intrigues " , offering officers promotion in return for their support . |
| 6 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 7 | We were trying to equip the pupils for life . |
| 8 | At the same time the Government was seeking to limit the opportunities for Members of Parliament to make representations to Ministers on behalf of those refused entry . |
| 9 | It would seem , therefore , that Bukharin was attempting to set the drive for industrialisation within the wider socio-political framework of the worker-peasant alliance upon which NEP was founded , rather than within merely narrow ‘ economic ’ guidelines . |
| 10 | You never knew these days when a casual remark was going to provide the justification for someone stalking you with an automatic rifle . |
| 11 | He had n't explained whether he actually believed in the existence of God , or what he was going to seek the reason for in his meeting with the almighty . |
| 12 | The impact of war on ordinary lives was beginning to create the conditions for a mass peace movement . |
| 13 | On that day , Hope asked if Hall was intending to lay the estimates for the offices during that session . |
| 14 | ‘ I was intending to ask the committee for something towards my purchase . ’ |
| 15 | Soviet accusations followed that Washington was trying to create the basis for a military alliance through strengthening mutual dependence between its regional partners in an arrangement over which it presided . |