Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The embarrassing fact is that , to secure this bizarre deal , the department is having to pay for material not yet produced , because Dungeness B was so late in coming on-stream . |
| 2 | Also , interestingly , Labour was trying to claim for itself the new Prospective owner-occupiers with a promise of low interest mortgages for low income earners . |
| 3 | Initially concerned with the advancement of these aims through the provision of low cost holidays abroad , rapid early success led to the extension of operations to the home market with publicity material stressing the proletarian nature of the enterprise : ‘ Trips for the workers ; Holidays to suit all pockets ’ ; ‘ What Cooks have done in the way of facilitating travel for the upper-middle and middling-middle classes , the WTA are arranging to do for the masses . ’ |
| 4 | The boy 's beginning to think for himself , he thought . |
| 5 | However , if the Institute is going to plan for the needs of 2001 AD , the whole idea of space occupied by books may need to be revised . |
| 6 | The one before this one , co-incidentally , was a very broad one , which was an attempt at assessing the results of Five , which of course took place in Manila in May/June , and right after that , with the participation of some of the people who had been , in Five we tried to assess what impact , if any , their conference is going to make for the future of the world economic system . |
| 7 | On the sideborad was a large fat hen Mama was planning to roast for dinner . |
| 8 | ‘ I du n no what we 'll do , ’ Carrie replied , feeling that all her hard work and shrewdness in helping to build up the business was going to count for nothing should the threatened strike take place . |
| 9 | Yeah , you 're absolutely right very important point yeah no amount of eye contact is going to compensate for something that that does n't hold their interest . |
| 10 | FRIENDS of an Anglesey man missing in Alaska since last week are continuing to search for him . |
| 11 | This mortaring is going to continue for some time . ’ |
| 12 | Now the bell is beginning to toll for indoor athletics at the station as , at long last , new facilities are being opened , at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and soon at the big centre in Birmingham . |
| 13 | If the Formalist definition of its object was going to allow for the specificity of literary studies , the Formalists regarded it as necessarily entailing the exclusion of all mimetic and expressive definitions of literature . |
| 14 | Andrew Hemmings who manages an alcohol recovery project in Manchester for Turning Point , said people had lost heart and started to drink again because of delays in establishing whether the local authority was going to pay for treatment . |
| 15 | The train was beginning to slow for the next station . |
| 16 | The mixture of feudal service ( the vassals ' obligation ) with mercenary forces ( the count was reckoning to pay for his share of the duty ) is characteristic of the eleventh century . |
| 17 | ‘ We were scared the bell was going to ring for the end of classes , ’ says Sylvain Souillon . |
| 18 | The Minister of Constitutional Development , Gerrit van N. Viljoen , in the budget debate in Parliament on May 9-11 , 1990 , outlined a plan for a future constitutional dispensation which , according to the state-owned media , showed that " the government is striving to cater for minorities " [ usually understood in a South African context to mean principally white people , but also Asians and " coloureds " ] and " assures people that the values and aspirations of minorities will not be set aside through majority rule " . |
| 19 | Pioneer must be assuming this trend is going to continue for some time ; its Wakefield plant does not go fully on line until 1994 . |
| 20 | Note : The Social Secretary is hoping to arrange for Mr Breeze to give us a further talk . |
| 21 | They supposed that one sex was going to care for the eggs , but that selection on both sexes would make them , if possible , desert the eggs and thus force the other sex into doing the work . |
| 22 | Economists were afraid that the country was over-populated and believed that the problems of poverty and unemployment would be reduced if the surplus hands and mouths would go overseas , but it did not follow that the government was going to pay for them to go . |
| 23 | Mr Reynolds said his government was continuing to press for the negotiating between loyalist and nationalist politicians to be renewed as soon as possible . |
| 24 | You made great play on how , ooh advertising is going to pay for it all , out of a budget of about sixty odd thousand pounds you 've got fifteen hundred pounds in in advertising . |
| 25 | Still I suppose the time 's it 's the actual the calendar 's starting to tick for having this is n't it now . |
| 26 | At the same time British and European importers heard a rumour that the World Wildlife Fund was planning to call for a boycott on the use of tropical timbers . |
| 27 | Arguments can be posed for mixing or not mixing and examples of excellent practice can be found , but it is vital that whatever conclusions are finally arrived at they come from a true understanding of what day care in any particular instance is trying to achieve for its attenders and their carers . |
| 28 | Mr Skinner said Mr Lilley should come to the House to answer questions over ‘ the £4,000 bill the taxpayer is having to foot for him flying from his holiday cottage in France to come back to Britain ’ . |
| 29 | Chaillot is going to ask for the advance back . ’ |
| 30 | The inner-city schools are most likely to have larger numbers of Afro-Caribbean and Asian pupils , and the education system is failing to provide for their special needs because of underfunding . |