Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent wave of lawlessness , in which more than 150 people were reportedly murdered , had been fuelled by fierce fighting between rival student groups competing for scarce dormitory spaces at Dhaka University . |
| 2 | Article 6 assumes a series of delimitation agreements between adjacent States allowing for bilateral relationships within the overall multilateral regime . |
| 3 | Over the past ten years , three styles of traditional Japanese hotels have increased their public profile to westerners — the minshuku ( private homes offering lodging service ) , the pension ( usually at resorts catering for sporting activities ) , and the traditional ryokan . |
| 4 | When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers . |
| 5 | After all , with the sunset of Empire and most departmental requests becoming for economic intelligence , you need trained minds who understood international banking , surely George could see that ? |
| 6 | A similar course , however , was being pursued by the varied groups pressing for such things as nursery schools , a national health service , ‘ new towns ’ and National Parks . |
| 7 | Stratford 's claims are also being supported by other groups pressing for alternative rail link routes including the socalled RACHEL plan which extends the Channel Tunnel all the way to London and has attracted the support of a major American bank . |
| 8 | Seeing the poverty around him while he was growing up , he joined in with the political groups agitating for social change . |
| 9 | Of the 1,185 candidates competing for 349 seats ( polling was not scheduled in 11 constituencies in Nagorny Karabakh and the neighbouring Shaumyan district because of security concerns ) , 921 were CP members . |
| 10 | All the picturesque seaside towns with ruins of old castles or monasteries to visit , busy shops catering for local needs , and few tourists . |
| 11 | One of the solictors acting for another trustee says that it appears Mrs Hilali has been living the good life . |
| 12 | In this sense the scene is clearly one of hazard problems looking for improved GIS rather than for GIS looking for good problems , as is all too often the case . |
| 13 | At times I had spent hours roaming around pastures looking for poisonous plants but that was pointless with Billings 's calves because they had never been out ; they were mere babies ofa month old . |
| 14 | The agreement purported to grant a term of uncertain duration which , if valid , now entitles the tenant to stay there for ever and a day at the 1930 rent of £30 ; valuers acting for both parties have agreed that the annual current commercial rent exceeds £10,000 . |
| 15 | He is now concentrating on providing M&A services to Japanese clients looking for acquisitions in Europe , Japanese clients looking for domestic acquisitions and European clients looking for Japanese acquisitions . |
| 16 | He is now concentrating on providing M&A services to Japanese clients looking for acquisitions in Europe , Japanese clients looking for domestic acquisitions and European clients looking for Japanese acquisitions . |
| 17 | It would follow that journalists writing for American publications have considerably more latitude in criticising public figures so long as their articles are not reprinted in Britain . |
| 18 | British manufacturers looking for new product lines are being targeted by former US funeral company director . |
| 19 | There are now 10 homes caring for 163 people , and the funds raised during the evening went towards the building of an 11th home , for 12 young people with profound multiple handicaps . |
| 20 | Greater peace could be found on a boating pond in Regent 's Park than at the populated end of poor Loch Morar in summer , with speed boats raping its once enigmatic waters and queues of cars waiting for senior citizens in their caravans to unblock the single track road where they have parked in a passing place to brew up a cuppa . |
| 21 | JOBS have become the battleground of the recession , with demands growing for existing ones to be saved and new ones created . |
| 22 | Through this mini trespass the RA are hoping to encourage hundreds of members to stage a mass trespass on the moor on September 29 , as part of Forbidden Britain Day — an annual event with nationwide protest walks calling for greater access to the countryside . |
| 23 | Words calling for sustained effort ( " search " , " meditate " , " examine " ) are used in the Bible to describe the way the scriptures must be read for maximum benefit . |
| 24 | This could result in one or more candidates surviving for each anaphor . |
| 25 | Tsu Ma was some fifty ch'i back , his mount straining , its front legs fighting for each ch'i of ground . |
| 26 | The principal aim of the Juvenile ‘ Rules ’ was to continue ‘ the supervision of the boy or girl , when placed , with a view to his or her further education , both technical and humanistic ’ and to bring to bear on the life of the adolescents ‘ all the influences making for industrial efficiency , for enlightened citizenship and self-realisation ’ . |
| 27 | The elections were duly held in May 1950 with more than 2,000 candidates standing for 200 positions . |
| 28 | The teachers had been trained at two training colleges in Kemmendine , those for primary schools studying for one year and those for middle schools for two years . |
| 29 | Other opposition parties preparing for multiparty politics included the Mozambique 's People 's Progressive Party ( PPPM ) , headed by Padimbe Kamati Andrea , which held its constituent congress in Maputo in mid-July . |
| 30 | Indeed the political parties preparing for those elections are in the process of selecting the candidates er there will in fact be an extra constituency in the East Midlands as a result of this particular order in council er and indeed the political parties at some stage will have to select new candidates for the six extra seats across the united kingdom . |