Example sentences of "[v-ing] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , annual sales forecasting for a manufacturing activity undertaking a wide variety of large complex engineering work on a unit and small batch basis may be carried out using a combination of queuing , scheduling and inventory based methods . |
| 2 | Commonly , sales forecasting for a period of up to one year ahead is differentiated from sales and market forecasting for longer periods . |
| 3 | And with two TV networks now competing for a UK cable channel , a similar service is set to take off here by the year 's end . |
| 4 | There are over 600 multinationals in a ‘ billion-dollar-club ’ and a host of smaller fry all competing for a share of the market . |
| 5 | Competition in the British market for water today is a reality with some forty plus rivals complet competing for a share in this growth area . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 7 | The tiny racing cars , operated by two sponsored five-men teams , zoomed around a 24-yard track competing for a trophy donated by Major Marques car restorers of Sherborne . |
| 8 | This was a team event , with 7 countries competing for a trophy named after Joan Scruton . |
| 9 | ‘ So , perhaps a really cynical person would conjecture that you need the money that caddying for a golfer like Harley , who is obviously back in form and on the verge of some big wins and big money , would bring . |
| 10 | While his friends were earning their few pennies for a week 's work as paper-boys and butcher 's assistants , Dave was caddying for a round at Hollinwell , the championship course near his home . |
| 11 | See basically if a customer objects , you 're about to cover the , the fact that if the customer objects , say come back to canvassing for a minute , you get somebody , you phone somebody up and they say , urgh , urgh , and they just mumble away and they listen to you and they do n't listen to you , right , it 's a waste of bloody time , but if they talk to you and they give you objections and you deal with these objections , right , they 're bound to buy |
| 12 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 13 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 14 | The two nations are collaborating on several satellite projects , including the L-Sat communications craft that British Aerospace is building for a launch in 1987 . |
| 15 | He was fumbling for a handkerchief as she hurried up . |
| 16 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |
| 17 | His mouth opened slightly , her tongue touched his upper lip once , then slipped away again ; she kissed him quickly on the cheek and turned , walked to a doorway , fumbling for a key in a small purse she took from her old fur coat . |
| 18 | Representatives of 11 Somali factions meeting in Bahr Dar in north-western Ethiopia on June 6 reached an accord , mediated by Ethiopian government representatives , allowing for a ceasefire to be implemented with the help of the UN and other international organizations . |
| 19 | You are now equipped to play the game : what is the ideal position for each of these machines allowing for you , the craftsman , to work around them and allowing for a board of a chosen dimension to go across that production set-up ? |
| 20 | Allowing for a level of coding somewhere between the highly specific and detailed CODOT scheme and that of OPCS , in which are sometimes to be found rather heterogeneous categories . |
| 21 | Allowing for a 12% margin of error , that gave him something between eleven and thirteen hundred miles of flight at his present subsonic speed . |
| 22 | These rosy expectations were not , however , to be fulfilled and even allowing for a degree of misfortune , Carter 's record of achievement as president was slim . |
| 23 | Allowing for a degree of non-anomalous unusualness in the sentences ( such sequences are , for various reasons , rather difficult to construct ) it seems that we have got from John 's mouth to the mouth of the river without encountering zeugmatic incompatibility . |
| 24 | ( 1988 , Chapter 6 ) address these issues , suggesting that pension rights should be jointly held by husband and wife for the duration of the marriage , allowing for a split on divorce . |
| 25 | While the really poor live in privately-owned , deteriorating homes — and about 90 per cent of the houses in Britain are still privately-owned — the new council houses are occupied by those who will pay up to twice or three times as much in rent , even after allowing for a subsidy of at least 8s. 6d. a week , and often far more , out of the general rates and taxes . |
| 26 | Lay each stone carefully , allowing for a 9mm thick mortar joint |
| 27 | In future it is hoped that information will be posted at the nearest car parks , as well as at the crag , allowing for a change of plan before walking to the climbs ! |
| 28 | Even allowing for a difference in the extent of lateralisation of executive aspects of speech , revealed by the Wada test , and receptive aspects , tapped by the dichotic listening technique , this figure of IS per cent is too high to accord with the evidence from brain damaged populations . |
| 29 | Allowing for a margin of error in fuel reserves , and for a certain degree of defensive manoeuvring to avoid missile sites and aircraft intercepts , 2000 miles was the maximum distance the Foxbat could cover without re-fuelling . |
| 30 | Even allowing for a desire to please his audience , sentiments of that sort sound better news than warnings of confrontation . |