Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passenger demand forecasting for new rail services |
| 2 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 3 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 4 | Commonly , sales forecasting for a period of up to one year ahead is differentiated from sales and market forecasting for longer periods . |
| 5 | Gregarious , flocks often hawking for flying insects and spiralling up to perform aerobatics . |
| 6 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 7 | The 17th annual conference of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions , held in London in October , endorsed the use of international standards on auditing for cross-border offerings and continuous reporting by foreign issuers . |
| 8 | So often in conditions races we see just a handful of runners competing for good prizemoney , a situation which has prompted a reduction in Pattern races from 139 to 101 in the 1990-91 season . |
| 9 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 10 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 11 | The day began with the men 's semi final , 28 qualifiers competing for eight places in the final . |
| 12 | Although I came third out of fifty folk competing for established status by examination , it was no good , only one candidate was accepted . |
| 13 | The drawing of lines between right and wrong [ or duty and obligation ] is being overshadowed by the need for cooperative adjustment and common improvement among States competing for limited resources . |
| 14 | In nature , many animals are competing for limited resources . |
| 15 | Insiders put it down to the pressure of competing for six and seven figure salaries . |
| 16 | An additional problem is that Soviet organisations are automatically barred from competing for infra-structural projects sponsored by the World Bank or the Inter-American Development Bank , which require bidders to be members of these institutions . |
| 17 | Agency workers are also paid by the hour , but the larger agencies , competing for scarce labour , have increasingly started to offer fringe benefits such as sickness and holiday pay [ see Chapter 5 ] . |
| 18 | The recent wave of lawlessness , in which more than 150 people were reportedly murdered , had been fuelled by fierce fighting between rival student groups competing for scarce dormitory spaces at Dhaka University . |
| 19 | Of the 1,185 candidates competing for 349 seats ( polling was not scheduled in 11 constituencies in Nagorny Karabakh and the neighbouring Shaumyan district because of security concerns ) , 921 were CP members . |
| 20 | Some 80 local table tennis players will be competing for 13 main titles . |
| 21 | Now that the national museums no longer have their purchase grants awarded separately from grant in aid for running costs , they fear that those will be further whittled away and they will be even less capable of competing for major masterpieces . |
| 22 | ‘ In some areas we are already competing for that work ’ . |
| 23 | We may think of them as competing for various tenures . |
| 24 | There were cars in the streets and brash , noisy journalists crowded round hotel bars competing for sensational stories to wire to their papers . |
| 25 | It makes it easier , in principle , to ‘ see ’ how many hypotheses are competing for some portion of an utterance , for example , and to decide which are the most promising given the evidence . |
| 26 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 27 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 28 | The views of his Ministerial colleagues , not least the Prime Minister , will be of particular relevance whenever a subject overruns departmental boundaries and the Home Office is competing for Parliamentary time . |
| 29 | After the laying of a few ‘ experimental ’ courses with due consideration for commercial shipping , wind direction and a fleet of local Finn sailors competing for Olympic squad selection , racing , finally , got under way . |
| 30 | Higher education is also expected to rely more heavily on private sources of finance with polytechnics and universities competing for commercial , foundation and research council contracts and building up relationships with industry through consultancy and science parks . |