Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and erm and then obviously that 's something round in the region of what we 're looking for . |
| 2 | We get a lot of what we 're working for , right now . |
| 3 | Part of what we are striving for as a necessity of our being is simply survival in physical and mental health . |
| 4 | Even with minerals and lost objects we have a reasonably clear idea of what we are looking for and the dowser can be proved right or wrong . |
| 5 | Much of the difficulty of identification is caused by an almost complete ignorance of what we are looking for . |
| 6 | They invited the Spanish and local press to watch us train , which is exactly the opposite of what we were hoping for . |
| 7 | drawing up a list of questions in advance , is advised for standard interviews , so that comparison between candidates is easier and the interviewers have a clear idea of what they are looking for ; |
| 8 | The most interesting condition occurs under item 9 ( Liability of seller ) : Under the Trade Descriptions Act , SLAD may not stipulate the period of time of this warranty , but it recommends that its members guarantee the authenticity of what they are selling for a period of six years . |
| 9 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 10 | Moreover , agents of the process may be genuinely unaware of what they are doing for as long as they see good professional practice as unitary , consensual and unproblematic . |
| 11 | ‘ In order to get that Job , Scott , you have to clarify one thing in your mind — a picture of what they 're looking for as an anchorman . ’ |
| 12 | Mining company employees made no attempt to inform local residents of what they were prospecting for . |
| 13 | Vivienne Westwood , current British Designer of the Year , had a very clear idea of what she was looking for : ‘ Something unorthodox that people have n't seen before . |
| 14 | Her own college , at first encounter , struck her as somewhat dimly conformist , with long brown corridors and an unexpectedly high proportion of young women apparently wrapped up in the triumphs of yesteryear on the hockey field or in the prefects ' Common Room , but even there she had discovered part of what she was looking for : in the persons of Liz Ablewhite ( now Headleand ) and Esther Breuer ( still Breuer ) she had discovered it , and rediscovered it there each time she met them , which was , these days , on average once a fortnight . |
| 15 | The knack in dowsing is to be in the right frame of mind , not caring too much what answer you get , but at the same time having a clear idea of what you are looking for , otherwise you are opening yourself up to a very wide ‘ waveband ’ and things will get very confused . |
| 16 | ( 1 ) A clear understanding of what you are looking for : |
| 17 | As we suggest in more detail in Chapters 2 and 3 , you will be able to find materials more easily and see the best arrangement for them when you have formed a sense of what you are looking for . |
| 18 | It should be said , nevertheless , that powerful search techniques , across such large databases , will still only contribute effectively to your essay-writing or research if you maintain a clear sense of what you are looking for and why — a guiding principle which is itself independent of the technology . |
| 19 | Waiting can be quite constructive if you have a clear idea of what you 're waiting for . ’ |
| 20 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 21 | a little portion of what I 'm paying for the heel . |
| 22 | A soldier should be married , gave him a sense of what he was fighting for . |
| 23 | So the point about the royals , erm , getting involved with these things is there 's always gon na be people that disagree with what they 're lobbying for . |
| 24 | Well I hope you get on well with what you 're doing for your scenery . |
| 25 | ‘ Would I be right in saying that we have n't provided you with what you were looking for when you came here ? ’ |
| 26 | And I like the job , the women are great and I believe in what we 're fighting for . |
| 27 | And it 's only because they have no rights in what they 're negotiating for . |
| 28 | Our methods should be appropriate to what we are looking for , and we should be clear what our motive is . |
| 29 | When light dawns as to what we are fighting for and why it is so difficult to achieve , sometimes we can break off and laugh with relief and take the steps to reconciliation that , again and again and again seem to be necessary . |
| 30 | All the individual professionals , managers and planners , together with the local people the service was designed to serve , shared a common vision as to what they were aiming for , often based around the concept of providing a more ‘ normal ’ home life for patients who had previously lived in an institution . |