Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 32 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
| 33 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 34 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 35 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 36 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 37 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 38 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 39 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 40 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 41 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 42 | We find it 's also useful back information , because they will be able to act on one client and has applications for proposal we are writing for another client later on so we can use as references refer to this information . |
| 43 | Matters are made worse if different selectivity processes are operating for each subgroup . |
| 44 | Examples are searching for all occurrences of a given pattern or even comparing two students ' work where copying is suspected . |
| 45 | Their meaning is not easily grasped by those who have spent some time studying the Christian faith , and yet the church still presents these complicated extracts from the Bible and the ASB to people who may never have heard the name of God spoken reverently before , and who are searching for some germ of belief to help them understand the vacuum created by the death of the person they love . |
| 46 | When you are looking for such opportunities , however , beware of allowing visual images to blind you to potential problems . |
| 47 | Like me , you know the Abbe Gerard was murdered , and you are looking for that book , a gift from our royal master which , by rights , should now be returned to its proper owner . ’ |
| 48 | My hon. Friend will be aware that the commuters in Kent are looking for some advantages from the channel tunnel rail link . |
| 49 | First you are looking for some mystery man called Svend , then it is your sister , but all the time you are taking an inventory of my apartment . ’ |
| 50 | Police are looking for any links with today 's fire . |
| 51 | However , the system has now been operating for many years and much good work in the safety field has resulted . |
| 52 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 53 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | A first time garden is usually small and certainly the typical one I am imagining for this series is no more than 40ft x 20ft and surrounded on all sides by other houses . |
| 56 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 57 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 58 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 59 | The women are pushing for more sponsorship and better coverage of their sport . |
| 60 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |