Example sentences of "[to-vb] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the patient is likely to continue coughing for some time after the antibiotics have been stopped , and the sputum that is produced when the patient coughs will be found to contain numerous pus cells on microscopic examination . |
| 2 | By identifying cash deficits at the planning stage a firm will be in a good position to arrange financing for the deficit . |
| 3 | Net it out , semi-anaesthetise it with M5222 or similar , then with the Koi in the bath , gently run your fingers from pelvic fins to vent checking for congestion . |
| 4 | ‘ Frank Strandli ( 21 ) is leaving Leeds to try qualifing for a place in the WC squad . |
| 5 | ‘ She never knew ’ , said Gran , ‘ that Jake 'd leave him to come looking for her , and ne'er see him grown . |
| 6 | ‘ It was kind of you to come looking for me , anyway , ’ said Twoflower . |
| 7 | No one was going to come looking for her . |
| 8 | By morning , if anyone troubled to come looking for her , they would probably find her poor , frozen body rooted to the spot by a cage of spindly icicles . |
| 9 | It will not be long before they are obliged to come looking for me . |
| 10 | You really need n't have troubled yourself to come looking for me . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was about to come looking for you , darling . ’ |
| 12 | It would be highly intelligent to take in the situation instantaneously and choose to stand waiting for death ; but that would be not a reaction but a deliberate act . |
| 13 | Forget junk food : soon we 'll be forced to clear the rest of the rainforest , just to provide grazing for the cattle needed to clothe the queue outside London 's posey Friday-nighter Glam . |
| 14 | There is enough rain in this region to provide grazing for cattle and good land to grow crops . |
| 15 | It is to use the DMS-100 system from Northern Telecom Ltd to provide switching for its telephony customers , and according to TeleWest , the value of the agreement may reach £50m over five years . |
| 16 | When he had departed for Benghazi he had left Lord Jellicoe in charge at Kabrit , and on 20 May Jellicoe wrote to MEHQ asking for an order to be issued to the Commando to release the men . |
| 17 | Public spending has to be at the level the taxpayer can afford , but through our prudent management , we are able to increase spending for 1992-93 by more than the rate of inflation , allowing significant improvements in health , education , law and order , transport and the environment , amongst others . |
| 18 | If we are to encourage reading for information , education , and enjoyment , then libraries themselves — the stock , the staff , and accommodation — need to be informative , educative , and enjoyable . |
| 19 | ‘ But what is wrong with the old vision for full employment , for accountable public ownership , for good quality health , welfare and education services , for a fairer distribution of wealth , and to provide housing for all ? ’ |
| 20 | It is difficult to assess at this stage what the repercussions of these provisions on this sector will be , but it is important to oppose yet another Tory move to minimise statutory responsibility to provide housing for people without homes . |
| 21 | It was the public sector which was to provide housing for the locally employed work force . |
| 22 | On May 1 he questioned the need for Israel 's request for US$400,000,000 loan guarantee to provide housing for Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 23 | In late July 1990 Housing and Construction Minister Ariel Sharon presented the Cabinet with a US$13,500 million five-year programme to provide housing for Soviet immigrants . |
| 24 | A statute created an obligation on the defendant council to provide housing for homeless persons . |
| 25 | Resentment among the locals grows at their inability to find housing for their children in their village . |
| 26 | But these were succeeded by bright little bandboxes of social aspiration ; newly painted doors , carriage lamps , an occasional hanging basket , the front garden paved to provide standing for the car . |
| 27 | The electricity generated in this new hydro-electric scheme will be sold to the National Grid ; power to service the site and to provide floodlighting for the spectacular gorge and falls will also be produced by what will be one of the largest electricity-generating waterwheels in Europe . |
| 28 | To secure backing for the budget from the Radical Liberals , the Centre Democrats and the Christian People 's Party , he was obliged to abandon plans to reduce direct taxes ( although corporation tax was reduced ) . |
| 29 | The managing director of the International Monetary Fund , Michel Camdessus , agreed on Aug. 17 during a three-day visit to Tallinn to provide backing for Estonian economic reforms with financial credits and other support worth up to US$40,000,000 . |
| 30 | The first elected council contained such active and progressive members as Sidney Webb , eager to encourage housebuilding for the working classes . |