Example sentences of "[coord] is [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rover has launched a Metro special offer this month and is hoping for an improvement . |
| 2 | After an amazing cross country round yesterday with her agile horse Knockdrin Vina finished in first position with 49 points after the dressage , and is hoping for a clear round today to win the £1,500 national championship and title . |
| 3 | But Ian Shiels , who works in the warehouse and has been responsible for football activity in the past , is aware of this and is hoping for better things to come . |
| 4 | He has already complained to the local government ombudsman and is hoping for an investigation into alleged maladministration over the closure of Hustledown . |
| 5 | He has already complained to the local government ombudsman and is hoping for an investigation into alleged maladministration over the closure of Hustledown . |
| 6 | Novella no longer needs to feel gratitude that in her case she has a father who has allowed her to teach in his place ; she has parted the curtain and is speaking for herself — in as many tongues as she pleases . |
| 7 | Now he 's sueing the Ford motor company in America and is calling for improved safety in all vehicles . |
| 8 | Louis Gerstner was by no means the first , and IBM Corp has been actively hiring executives from outside the company since the beginning of the year , Associated Press reports : it says that IBM has hired about 30 outside executives in the past two years and is searching for 50 more ; incomers include Robert Howe , 48 , general manager , IBM Consulting Group , former head of worldwide financial services practice at consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton ; Michael Cannon , 40 , vice-president , personal systems storage devices , Adstar , former senior vice-president , worldwide operations at Syquest Technology Inc ; John Osborne , 39 , sales director , Personal Software Products , former vice-president of sales and marketing at Zenith Data Systems Inc ; Jon Cornell , 53 , assistant general manager , original equipment manufacturers sales and marketing , IBM Technology Products , former president , Harris Corp ; John Singleton , 56 , general manager , business development , Integrated Systems Solution Corp , former chief executive , Security Pacific Automation Co ; and Clare Thain , 43 , advertising and promotion director , IBM US , who was formerly the managing partner at Ronald James Direct . |
| 9 | Twenty-three year-old Allen Taylor is ‘ sick and tired ’ of the continuing attacks on his parents ' house and is appealing for help . |
| 10 | Michael , who works at the Visitor Centre , Barlaston , is taking part in a 24 hour demonstration of his skills in aid of Comic Relief between noon on 11 and 12 March and is appealing for sponsors . |
| 11 | , Aware is holding its annual Daisy Day from September to and is appealing for volunteers to help sell Michaelmas Daisy and viola plants in aid of the organisation . |
| 12 | But the hospice also wants to extend its service and is appealing for people to undertake regular giving so it can support more ill people and their families . |
| 13 | Griffin is hoping to run in the London Marathon and is aiming for the Olympic marathon in Barcelona . |
| 14 | Sparc Technology currently employs 30 to 40 people and is aiming for between 50 and 60 by the end of the year . |
| 15 | The current NCT representative on the ( wait for it ) West Midlands Regional Health Authority 's Health Promotion Group 's Ante-Natal Care Action Group ( what a mouthful ) is about to retire and is looking for someone to take over . |
| 16 | The basis of the traditional antipathy of churches to gambling is that it can encourage greed , become addictive and is looking for a reward that has not been earned either by virtue or by effort . |
| 17 | It proposes certain amendments as part of that codification process and is looking for comments on the format of the codified documents , and on various changes in principle or emphasis in ISAs4 , 10 , 23 and 26 . |
| 18 | Tivoli has around 100 customers worldwide and is looking for an OEM deal in the Far East around the end of the year by which time its internationalisation efforts should be complete . |
| 19 | Olivetti has configured the Active Badge to be MS-DOS- and Windows-compliant and is looking for software developers interested in developing applications for it . |
| 20 | It has 100 or so customers worldwide and is looking for an OEM deal in the Far East by year-end , when its internationalisation efforts should be complete . |
| 21 | It expects to leverage off Borland Japan and is looking for additional Japanese distributors . |
| 22 | Noblenet Inc , the Natick , Massachusetts-based developer of EZ-RPC transport-independent remote procedure call software , is trying to make it big and and is looking for OEMs to sell its distributed computing technology . |
| 23 | Omron sold 6,000 Lunas in FY91 and is looking for other OEMs . |
| 24 | With the merger of DCM Services Ltd and Kode International Plc 's Kode Computers Ltd now complete , the company has broadened its range of consultancy services , and is looking for acquisitions in the UK . |
| 25 | DataFocus says the look-and-feel technology just is n't there yet and is looking for partners to help master the problem . |
| 26 | Bristol , which hopes to grow to 10 or 12 people by year 's end and is looking for qualified X-Windows and Motif programmers , says it now has a positive cash flow . |
| 27 | Founded in 1981 by Beth Grossman and Don Skirving ‘ on a shoestring , a friendly bank manager , and a cold market ’ , the company now employs 24 people , has a projected turnover of £2,75m for the current year to August , and is looking for larger premises to cater for an expanding stockholding . |
| 28 | I know that the Labour party thinks that it has lost the election , and is looking for an excuse . |
| 29 | The 27-year-old teacher is joining 29 other riders on a 650mile charity trek across Romania and is looking for sponsors . |
| 30 | The teenager said she has now given up smoking and is looking for a job . |