Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Southern member states are pushing for this to happen straightaway without having thought through the format of the export document required by the Regulation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ari Vatanen has come second and Colin McRae sixth … a good performance … but the British fans were hoping for more as Tim Russon now reports |
| 4 | Maybe scum gangs were uniting for some big upward raid , eh ? |
| 5 | Now Charlie who has set a host of records in recent months is heading for another one — the highest number of winners in the newly formed Irish jump season . |
| 6 | Fireworks are what youngsters are waiting for all year round when they remember , remember the fifth of November . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the mid-Eighties , when Bacons were selling for half a million dollars , he did it again by selling a Bacon Pope belonging to Dufferin for over $1 million . |
| 9 | The Federation of European Wholesale and International Trade Associations is calling for all references to traders ' responsibility to be removed . |
| 10 | As the temperatures fall , council workers are preparing for another winter gritting the roads . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Campaigners are calling for more safeguards , especially with further privatised jailsbeing planned . |
| 13 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 14 | Is Mr Walker saying , Chairman , that the District Council planning officers are asking for this higher roof , but |
| 15 | Rare , even bizarre , circumstances aside , it never profits a monopolist to do more when customers are signaling for less , or less when they are signaling for more ’ . |
| 16 | The upshot is that holiday/tour organisers who book hotels in this country are imposing stringent contract conditions on the hotels and may in some cases be looking for some performance guarantees or such-like so that they have some redress if your shortcomings result in them having to pay up to their customers . |
| 17 | New uses are emerging for that space and new governmental and administrative forms and processes are being created which facilitate its reordering in a way which is analogous to the use of enclosure to expel a surplus peasantry , of the New Poor Law in England to dispose of a surplus of rural proletarians , of clearance to reorder the Highlands of Scotland for capitalist sheep farming , and of the Poor Law , eviction and the failure to relieve famine which was intended to transform the congested districts of Ireland from peasant to large-scale landlord-led capitalist farming . |
| 18 | Matters are made worse if different selectivity processes are operating for each subgroup . |
| 19 | The players are hoping for another lift from the supporters , who gave their team a tremendous welcome and out-sang Liverpool 's followers at Highbury . |
| 20 | Examples are searching for all occurrences of a given pattern or even comparing two students ' work where copying is suspected . |
| 21 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 22 | Police are looking for any links with today 's fire . |
| 23 | Police are appealing for any witnesses to the attack to come forward . |
| 24 | ‘ The police are appealing for any person who was in the area at this time and may have witnessed the incident to contact them . ’ |
| 25 | Police are appealing for any witnesses to the attack . |
| 26 | Police are asking for any witnesses to come forward if they saw suspicious activity near the garage at any time on Saturday night . |
| 27 | As the scheduled tour dates approach , legal fees are mounting for all sides of the Barnes dispute . |
| 28 | Real wages were rising for those in , work , and living standards improved markedly in the Midlands and the South-East , serving both to diminish the political impact of unemployment and to increase the differentiation of the country . |
| 29 | It was not that both sides were preparing for some future war to deter the other side . |
| 30 | The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers is going for another plant-in on land adjacent to Port Meadow in Oxford . |