Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer did the garrison feel that their sufferings were taking place for the amusement of the crowd . |
| 2 | British footie fans were combing Europe for new styles a decade ago , says Peter Hooton ( above ) , who documented the rise of the humble sports shoe via his fanzine , The End |
| 3 | States used them to discover whether schools were giving value for money . |
| 4 | That evening the Parsons were meeting friends for an early meal before going on to the opera . |
| 5 | Mr Lang said a minority of parents were undermining schooling for all children through allowing truancy , failing to teach the difference between right and wrong and leaving education to schools . |
| 6 | A Scottish Office spokesman dismissed recent reports that private organisations were preparing plans for private prisons as pure speculation . |
| 7 | Secondly , although a number of regions were providing courses for trainees which had had initially beneficial effects , there was a general shortage of such courses and also of the skilled resources necessary for the development of well-founded schemes . |
| 8 | At that time a variety of the women 's presses were mooting ideas for conventional anthologies of Black writing in the UK . |
| 9 | Dickens declared that : ‘ Long before Henry VIII broke with Rome numerous developments were preparing Englishmen for some sort of religious and ecclesiastical change or crisis . ’ |
| 10 | Dr Norris said the doctors were demanding protection for all health care ‘ homicide ’ . |
| 11 | A party meeting was to be held on the following Monday and the Whips were making preparation for a vote to be taken . |
| 12 | While in 1965 at the Spencer Churchill sale top examples were changing hands for around £600 , and in the 1970s in the low thousands , the prices at the Castle Ashby sale shot up into the hundred thousands for the first time as new collectors , both Greek and American , competed against each other . |
| 13 | In the great hall henchmen were laying tables for the banquet and the air was thick with the tangy wholesome odour of cooking from the kitchen which made both men 's mouths water . |
| 14 | The former soldiers were demanding payment for taking early retirement under Chamorro 's plan which drastically reduced the size of the army . |
| 15 | The militants were publicizing demands for political status to be conferred on their imprisoned leader Patricio Baquerizo whom they wanted released . |
| 16 | With the fiftieth anniversary of the historic ‘ December Ninth ’ approaching , students were laying plans for large-scale rallies to remind the government of their traditional role as remonstrators and revolutionaries . |
| 17 | As early as 1967 an inner group of ministers was examining proposals for the modernization of Polaris to prolong its credibility into the 1990s . |
| 18 | A commoner function for assemblies was coordinating plans for war . |
| 19 | If the operative part could properly be controlled by the recitals , I think there would be much reason to say that the only thing contemplated by the recitals was giving time for payment , without any relinquishment , on the part of the judgment creditor , of any portion of the amount recoverable ( whether for principal or for interest ) under the judgment . |
| 20 | But he warned that poorly constructed facilities were presenting problems for the industry in the future . |
| 21 | Worse still , the camps were breeding grounds for fever , and Battle in 1809 suffered severely from a typhoid outbreak which began in its barracks . |