Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adj] [noun] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The judge 's ruling comes at a time when many legal experts are pressing for young children to be allowed to give evidence in court . |
| 2 | Mr Williams was walking in the countryside , listening for odd songs , looking for that magic to be found in a new song . |
| 3 | But the big ITV stations are lobbying for all restrictions to be lifted , which would pave the way for a Great North TV spanning the country . |
| 4 | JOBS have become the battleground of the recession , with demands growing for existing ones to be saved and new ones created . |
| 5 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 6 | ( For RSFSR legislation see p. 38273 ; Moldava 's Supreme Soviet passed a privatization law on July 4 providing for non-transferable bonds to be distributed to citizens in proportion to how long they had worked . |
| 7 | Peru had strongly denounced the US invasion , and had joined Venezuela , Colombia and Mexico in calling for early elections to be held . |
| 8 | AN ‘ ABHORRENT ’ motion calling for married couples to be given preference in a housing waiting list has been thrown out by councillors . |
| 9 | After calling for non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf , they cursed the Saudi Arabian government for inviting them there in the first place , and took a side-swipe at Israel for having occupied the West Bank in 1967 . |
| 10 | Scientists from Lancaster Moor Hospital and Lancaster University , who discovered the link , are calling for more studies to be done to see if other childhood cancers have increased in the 4,000-5,000 children born between 1950 and 1990 to mothers in the target group . |
| 11 | In June 1988 it reported , recommending the removal of any improper restrictions upon the right of individual Tatars to return to their native land and calling for more attention to be paid to their cultural needs , but also rejecting the Tatars ' call for the reestablishment of their autonomous republic . |
| 12 | Environmentalist Darryl D'Monte is calling for big technology to be supplemented by smaller schemes . |
| 13 | The Amir addressed the country on Jan. 20 appealing for an end to the pro-democracy agitation and calling for national issues to be resolved through political dialogue and consultation . |
| 14 | The county 's family health services authority is asking for unwanted items to be handed in so that they can be disposed of safely . |
| 15 | No but as erm Mrs has mentioned to me , when it comes to er converting an existing garage into a den or a study and then asking for another garage to be built . |
| 16 | In soliciting response to analysis and subsequent proposals produced out of higher level partnerships , it would be asking for local ideas to be contributed to the whole . |
| 17 | And adults do not need to be on the verge of shouting or crying for these mechanisms to be involved . |
| 18 | After the worst year on record for cruelty to sheep and cattle — the RSPCA is now campaigning for that loophole to be closed . |
| 19 | Some disagree with this line of thinking — notably Ichiro Ozawa , the secretary-general of Japan 's ruling party , who has been arguing for Japanese soldiers to be sent to the Gulf in a non-combat role — but they have not had much luck making their case . |
| 20 | They admit arranging for 5,000 dollars to be handed over in envelopes but say they were merely responding to UEFA instructions to cover the officials ' expenses . |
| 21 | Where there are insuperable difficulties in arranging for that evidence to be questioned it should not be admitted in evidence , or the hearing authority should exclude it from their consideration . |
| 22 | Mother and Father , through their church , were arranging for Jewish children to be taken in by local families . |