Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly , employers are looking for higher levels of skills . |
| 2 | The 22 NorthEast Rotaract Clubs are looking for worthwhile charities to support in their September fund-raising week . |
| 3 | The judge 's ruling comes at a time when many legal experts are pressing for young children to be allowed to give evidence in court . |
| 4 | All 3 political groups are pitching for increased spending , Labour is likely to propose a budget around £320 million , the Liberal Democrats around £314 million and the Tory group up to £310 millions , all of them well above Government guidelines of £306 million . |
| 5 | Environmental groups are campaigning for more money and importance to be placed on the needs of cyclists , with a target of doubling cycle use over the next five years . |
| 6 | In nature , many animals are competing for limited resources . |
| 7 | Particularly acute problems appear to be found in the area of raising seed-corn capital ( pre start-up capital , less than £250,000 , the riskiest type of venture capital ) and that venture funds are looking for shorter term returns ( BEQB 1990 ) . |
| 8 | Among Max 's other hobbies are going for long walks , travelling in the car and sitting on the fax machine , which always gives him a surprise when it starts working . |
| 9 | When speakers are looking for different ways of accomplishing the same goal ( in Coveney 's example , successfully requesting information ) they are not limited to the various possibilities in the linguistic system for constructing formal interrogatives . |
| 10 | What matters most are the attitudes of teachers to parents and parents to teachers — whether there is genuine mutual respect , whether the parents understand what the schools are doing for individual children and ( whether ) teachers realise how dependent they are upon parental support . |
| 11 | Tory backbenchers are looking for strong measures to boost the economy and hope a one per cent cut in interest rates will cushion predicted cutbacks in public spending . |
| 12 | Opposition parties were calling for fresh elections , and criticizing President Slobodan Milosevic for his handling of the military campaign . |
| 13 | The union has managed to keep the strike going even though Siberian miners are pressing for political changes only , while miners in the Ukraine , where living conditions are particularly wretched , also want large wage rises . |
| 14 | Alarm-bells are sounding for Russian book dealers . |
| 15 | Fireworks are what youngsters are waiting for all year round when they remember , remember the fifth of November . |
| 16 | The waste-to-energy companies are pressing for financial support to allow them to take advantage of new waste management regulations due to come into force next year . |
| 17 | Pink-browns or lightly frosted tones are flattering for older women or anyone with a lined mouth . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Federation of European Wholesale and International Trade Associations is calling for all references to traders ' responsibility to be removed . |
| 20 | As the temperatures fall , council workers are preparing for another winter gritting the roads . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As athletes prepare for the Olympics , sporting organisations are looking for big sponsorship deals to pay for the trip to Barcelona . |
| 23 | Conservationists are fighting for tighter controls because new Government figures show that 38,000 acres of open countryside were swallowed up by developers in England , every year , for the 5 years between 1985 and 1990 . |
| 24 | Road hauliers are calling for urgent talks over new speed limits for trucks . |
| 25 | Volume reductions in carbonates of approximately 40% were detailed by Dunnington ( 1967 ) and Park & schot ( 1968 , p. 72 ) ; similar calculations are lacking for other sediments . |
| 26 | As the article by Dr Stuart Nelson in this issue ( p11 ) points out , most SMEs are looking for immediate benefits by improving their products and processes with existing technology at low risk . |
| 27 | Room maids told us guests were asking for lighter duvets , and suggested we improve signs as guests were constantly asking for directions . |
| 28 | The return departure from the Harbour will be quite late so the organisers are asking for intermediate stops at Guildford , Woking and Clapham Junction on the return run to enable passengers to detrain and catch the last suburban services home . |
| 29 | As budgets contract , appetites are expanding for old favourites such as oxtail soup and casseroles . |
| 30 | Campaigners are calling for more safeguards , especially with further privatised jailsbeing planned . |