Example sentences of "[v-ing] for their " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will be competing for their business with already existing companies there which offer complete financial services . |
| 2 | The females evolve to be larger and brighter coloured than the males , and control harems of dull-coloured egg-sitters , competing for their domestic skills against other acquisitive and territorial females . |
| 3 | And while the fashionable ammonites and graptolites were competing for their place in the spotlight , the minor characters in the stratigraphical play were doing exactly the same thing . |
| 4 | THERE is a burst of late season sailing activity with the Ruffian Class competing for their Northern Ireland title at Carrickfergus Sailing Club and the GP14 Class holding their Autumn Open at East Down Yacht Club . |
| 5 | So dairy farmers look likely to be gainers under the new regime , particularly as several new groups will be competing for their milk . |
| 6 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 7 | The Reverend Foster 's beady eyes fixed on the children fumbling for their donations as if they were a parcel of juicy worms to be swooped on if they tried to wriggle away . |
| 8 | The House of Love admitted it themselves , apologising for their shyness , because after all , this was the biggest gig yet . |
| 9 | Software602 sales manager Jan Muhlfeit said that the teenagers , all aged between 16 and 18 , had written a letter to the Alliance apologising for their actions — they claimed they did not know that they were doing anything wrong . |
| 10 | It will require a miracle for Bedford to retain their status , even allowing for their few plus points — a top New Zealand coach , the arrival of a useful looking New Zealand scrum-half , and the fact that if the three national divisions are expanded , as proposed , next season , only one team will be going down from the First Division . |
| 11 | Taking fish the size of Neon Tetras as a benchmark , and allowing for their growth : |
| 12 | In part this is due to a desire to avoid a rigidly causal account which will straitjacket capitalist societies into a single position , not allowing for their diversity and variation . |
| 13 | BUT EVEN allowing for their rise in public stature , Leeds ' artful loons are wary of any form of bandwagon jumping . |
| 14 | BUT EVEN allowing for their rise in public stature , Leeds ' artful loons are wary of any form of bandwagon jumping . |
| 15 | one quarter of wheat for every virgate of land , in return for their having housebote and paling for their corn , and for collecting dead wood for their fuel in the King 's demesne wood … and from every house a goose and a hen every year . |
| 16 | Swan 's ‘ guest ’ ( ie , unpaid ) lecturers are academics singing for their supper and for the chance to revisit sites and monuments , or sometimes visit them for the first time . |
| 17 | It 's not all going according to plan , however , and most days they wind up literally singing for their supper . |
| 18 | DEC already has the incomplete version 1 of the OSF operating system out on its MIPS line , and it 's this that customers are using for their own early development work . |
| 19 | One of the reasons why it is harder to run classes in Ipswich is not so much the diversity of entertainment provided but the overlapping of cultural activity , The WEA offers a broad cultural front , and a Branch in a village is the fount of all learning , but in a large town the musicians … artists and dramatists … historians and archaeologists have respective organisations catering for their taste , even the natural scientists do … |
| 20 | Thiercelin and Lefevre found themselves received at their billet with almost embarrassing cordiality , the householder , Herr Bauer , and his wife insisting upon catering for their every need , whilst regaling them with complaints of Hapsburg perfidy and the brutality of their Russian allies . |
| 21 | A lot of mums , however , still lay out their twenty-year-old 's washed and ironed clothes on the bed for them each morning and continuously clean up after them , catering for their every need . |
| 22 | Heather Welford takes a lighthearted look at baby personalities with tips on catering for their needs |
| 23 | LeCoz noted that ‘ museums everywhere , even one as well known as the Orsay , are always in need of financing for their projects . ’ |
| 24 | Within Japan , larger firms have a tremendous advantage because there are so many small component suppliers who rely extensively on subcontracting for their existence . |
| 25 | For example , many schools , colleges and environmental groups have spent time in remote islands , producing for their own use reports which contain botanical information which remains rather inaccessible . |
| 26 | He wanted the contras to be seen to be dying for their cause , emphasizing both how desperate it was , and how just . |
| 27 | A propaganda of peace based on the readiness of objectors to undergo hard labour was likely to meet with derision , if not anger , at a time when hundreds of thousands of young men were fighting and dying for their country in far more appalling conditions . |
| 28 | The peers of these teachers and the relatives of the boys were dying for their country — all the more need to help its future generation . |
| 29 | There were now far fewer people about : many streets were deserted but for groups of tethered goats fattening for their slaughter on Idul-Zuha . |
| 30 | Owners of deaf white cats report that their pets are brilliant at compensating for their genetic disability . |