Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's very annoyed because his lack of education has prevented him from becoming a candidate for Swansea West in the general election . |
| 2 | At the February 1990 meeting Ordóñez and Douglas Hurd , by then UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs , also agreed to co-operate in preventing Gibraltar from becoming a base for drug trafficking and its burgeoning offshore finance companies from becoming a centre for money laundering . |
| 3 | The similar move by Singapore followed allegations that the country was becoming a centre for trade in endangered species . |
| 4 | Bar-Belle Aviation are also hoping to establish their own airfield with a 1,000 metre grass runway ‘ somewhere ’ in Oxfordshire , with a view to basing most of their fleet as well as it becoming a centre for warbird and historic aircraft . |
| 5 | Yes , I wanted to emphasise the way some men feel constrain before , not because I want to suggest it 's now becoming a problem for men and we should be worrying about them , but because you asked what prospects there were for doing something about it and I think if something 's to be done about it , and it 's a problem of everyone devising new standards of behaviour , it 's very important that quite large numbers of men should be prepared to play a part in trying to work out what these standards should be , and there is quite substantial interest in trying to do that , both at the level of the teaching staff at the university and at the level of the undergraduates . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've also found ourselves looking at other aspects , like eldercare , which is increasingly becoming a problem for people who work . |
| 7 | Yeah , I 'm rather concerned that this kind of thing seems to be happening rather a lot , I mean this is so reminiscent of what happened in the , the four maisonette in in Fern Hill where we had empty blocks left for a long time erm becoming a magnet for vandalism and all kinds of everything ! |
| 8 | Tutor Dr Malcolm Chase said Teesside was one of the focal points of the Victorian economy becoming a magnet for immigrants from every corner of Britain and Ireland . |
| 9 | At the February 1990 meeting Ordóñez and Douglas Hurd , by then UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs , also agreed to co-operate in preventing Gibraltar from becoming a base for drug trafficking and its burgeoning offshore finance companies from becoming a centre for money laundering . |
| 10 | Home ownership is becoming a reality for people with a learning difficulty in the USA , as Terry Philpot discovered |
| 11 | MP for Peterborough ( 1624 , 1625 , 1626 , 1628 ) , he resided in Drury Lane ( becoming a JP for Middlesex and Westminster ) and Chiswick ( 1624 ) . |
| 12 | Although UPH agreed to purchase the site in November 1988 and did not complete the purchase until August 1989 , we have learned that the idea of it becoming a site for Telecom 's HQ was first mooted as early as April ‘ 89 . |
| 13 | And then there is Euro Disney , which is fast becoming a synonym for Eurodisaster . |
| 14 | The cause of the crash was a long way from BCCI 's original aim of becoming a bank for Muslims which would link the developing world and transfer wealth from the west to the Third World . |
| 15 | Glasgow is rapidly becoming a Mecca for buyers of figurative painting . |
| 16 | In that pensive pucker of Brother Yeremi 's lips Lexandro sensed that he himself was now becoming a focus for Valence 's hypocrisy … |
| 17 | He contended that pleasure could only arise from the satisfaction of an impulse and that therefore there could be no pleasure , and no possibility of satisfying a desire for pleasure , unless there were impulses towards things other than pleasure . |
| 18 | Anyone interested in purchasing a Wedghog for £1 should contact Sue Meaken on Barlaston extension 2572 . |
| 19 | They scanned the misty water , keeping a watch-out for driftwood which might foul up the engine . |
| 20 | Keeping a look-out for stress |
| 21 | It was the clubs which had to be dragged screaming into the national club competition , the All Ireland League , two seasons ago after dithering and delaying a decision for years . |
| 22 | " The opening of the road for friendship and co-operation between us and the Soviet Union , " he said , " is directly related to opening a road for peace and unification of the Korean peninsula . " |
| 23 | From now on , they 'll be acquiring a taste for school food — the next step is for the orphans is to start attending lessons as if they were English boys and girls . |
| 24 | The damage inflicted is particularly severe since Fonseca and Williams ( 1988 ) suggest that professional development teachers have been the most effective agency for stimulating a desire for change in schools . |
| 25 | At one point it would have been reasonable to assume that Durham SC were staging a convention for knee and ankle supports as nearly 80 combatants rolled up for battle . |
| 26 | The official honours went to Laurel Garrard driving a Daf for Marathon Haulage , part of a three-truck convoy carrying textile plant from Nottingham to Greece on the 02.30 departure of the European Endeavour to Zeebrugge . |
| 27 | I remember one particularly seedy dive called the Dugout which we left with our clothes reeking of marijuana and our ears ringing with reggae but our hearts full of joy for the privilege of gaining a hearing for Christ . |
| 28 | A customer capable of signing a cheque for £100,000 is unlikely to balk at the extra £10,000 or so , and Aston 's aberrant mid-'80s profitability was due in no small part to the fact that Gauntlett made his car more expensive , in real terms , than it has ever been . |
| 29 | They would in fact be applying a test for review not dissimilar to the one about to be examined . |
| 30 | EC stocks were reported as amounting to 100 days of consumption , implying a need for action . |