Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last season they won the Fourth Division title and Corden believed the club were heading for second division football . |
| 2 | And despite a large membership , the club is appealing for new bowlers to join . |
| 3 | R.5(6) provides that a shareholder shall not exercise any voting rights in respect of any share held in breach of any part of R.5 — a breach could come about either because a shareholder is not permitted to be a shareholder or because a shareholder is holding for another person who is not permitted to be a beneficial owner . |
| 4 | A difficulty with conducting this type of research is controlling for outside factors , for example , international recession , or war , or a disastrous crop failure . |
| 5 | As there is no confidence in the supply of milk , the dairy processing industry is looking for new ways of selling dairy products . |
| 6 | INDUSTRY is preparing for another assault on advance corporation tax . |
| 7 | Mr Hely Hutchinson said that Headline was looking for UK-based acquisitions that offered quality and enhanced shareholder value . |
| 8 | The EC is telling farmers to grow less , while the green lobby is campaigning for radical changes in the way farmers run their businesses . |
| 9 | XSoft is looking for high-volume distribution and has cut deals with Qualix Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc to provide the software free of charge for an initial 30-day trial basis . |
| 10 | Marine archaeology is heading for new depths with the second and perhaps most spectacular underwater shipwreck foray by a new unmanned submarine . |
| 11 | The village show committee is looking for new recruits . |
| 12 | BRITAIN 'S State pensions are among the lowest in Europe , but now a new , Devon-based , pressure group called Linkage is campaigning for old folk . |
| 13 | A YOUNG north Belfast girl is bidding for instant fame , and a place in one of the nation 's most exclusive portrait galleries , after entering the United Kingdom 's longest running ‘ soap opera ’ . |
| 14 | Answer guide : This question is looking for some discussion around the realization and prudence principles . |
| 15 | Some of the group are aiming for further education in business administration , or in other areas such as leisure and tourism . |
| 16 | The song reminded me of my ex-wife , only the group were trying for wistful melancholy and my associations were screaming nightmare . |
| 17 | A POPULAR Darlington bookshop is looking for new premises . |
| 18 | The team is appealing for second-hand office furniture for their HQ , but patient facilities at the hospice will be bought using money raised by well-wishers . |
| 19 | Promoted at the end of last season to Division 1 of the West Middlesex Midweek Cricket League , the team is searching for new blood to add to the pool of players to make sure they stay there . |
| 20 | The team is caring for growing numbers ill on the South Coast , including Brighton . |
| 21 | By his side a little bird on a stand is singing , and a tiny mouse is searching for fallen bird-food . ) |
| 22 | The report in the British Medical Journal is calling for new school vaccination policies . |
| 23 | For the Newtownbreda Old Tyme Dance Community Group is looking for new members to join the dancers who meet every Thursday night . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , speculation continues that the Greek collector is looking for more aircraft for his collection and is working hard to return one of his Shacks to airworthy condition and back to the UK ! |
| 25 | The Cornell team was searching for neutral hydrogen inside other known galaxies . |
| 26 | These sites of criticism are cramping for persuasive advocacy , even if excellent use is sometimes made of them . |
| 27 | He and his wife were going for two months . |
| 28 | Here , the therapist is looking for maladaptive coping strategies which can be altered at a later date in homework assignments . |
| 29 | The Women 's Royal Voluntary Service is appealling for more people to help them with their meals on wheels service . |
| 30 | The case demonstrates the difficulties which the policy of parental choice in education is presenting for multicultural education in state schools . |