Example sentences of "[noun pl] are [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 | Fireworks are what youngsters are waiting for all year round when they remember , remember the fifth of November . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As the temperatures fall , council workers are preparing for another winter gritting the roads . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Campaigners are calling for more safeguards , especially with further privatised jailsbeing planned . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Is Mr Walker saying , Chairman , that the District Council planning officers are asking for this higher roof , but |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Matters are made worse if different selectivity processes are operating for each subgroup . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Examples are searching for all occurrences of a given pattern or even comparing two students ' work where copying is suspected . |
| 15 | The gap in the ESP market has always been at the lower end , and a number of other publishers are catering for this . |
| 16 | Police are looking for any links with today 's fire . |
| 17 | Police are appealing for any witnesses to the attack to come forward . |
| 18 | ‘ The police are appealing for any person who was in the area at this time and may have witnessed the incident to contact them . ’ |
| 19 | Police are appealing for any witnesses to the attack . |
| 20 | Police are asking for any witnesses to come forward if they saw suspicious activity near the garage at any time on Saturday night . |
| 21 | As the scheduled tour dates approach , legal fees are mounting for all sides of the Barnes dispute . |
| 22 | Now that IBM Corp is in long-term decline , evolving into just another big company like Xerox Corp or General Motors Corp that has seen much better days , market-makers are looking for another bellwether to signal the direction of the entire market , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 23 | ‘ Now when I know the boys are preparing for another game and I 'm not there , I will miss it ; the familiar routine , meeting at the Petersham Hotel in Richmond on a Wednesday night , the late meal , the exchange of views as people come in ; the Thursday morning training , dashing round to golf or wherever in the afternoon , the team meeting in the evening , the Friday session , probably going to the cinema at night , the leg pulling , the nervous jokes on the Saturday of the game itself , the closing in from the outside world . ’ |
| 24 | The women are pushing for more sponsorship and better coverage of their sport . |
| 25 | And not all the MPs are voting for this by the way . |
| 26 | Not all the the MPs are voting for this because a lot of people ca n't have work , let alone have a pay increase . |