Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a sense Lecercle ( whose own name doubtless encouraged him to consider the surplus meanings language provides ) is sticking up for parole , the language as she is spoke ( or written ) . |
| 2 | Mr Vecchiotti is looking not for masses of assembly-line workers , but for a few skilled and adaptable engineers . |
| 3 | Finally , he is looking out for support material for Christian detached youth workers . |
| 4 | THE BRITISH government is looking eagerly for signs of economic recovery but is may not have noticed that the quickest way of discerning increased industrial activity is not to look at it , but to listen . |
| 5 | A spokesperson for the gallery told The Art Newspaper that Assistant curator Marla Prather is filling in for Ms Rosenthal , but the former positions of Messrs Cowart and Moffett remain unfilled . |
| 6 | At the moment he 's searching around for sponsors . |
| 7 | THE on-going ferry price war is paying off for P&O who today claimed a massive 96pc rise in tourist vehicle trade on its Larne-Cairnryan route . |
| 8 | Another slice of the Maxwell empire is going up for sale . |
| 9 | well he said the house is going up for sale , I think he thinks I 'll be patient in that direction , it 's not that , it 's just that if it was a nice house , a normal house where the kids can play out on a nice day and just hang the washing out , I could be getting on with it |
| 10 | More of a knock at the back door than a storming of the castle gate perhaps , but something is going right for Jon Solly . |
| 11 | Chelsea did n't deserve maximum points but very little is going right for Leeds this season . |
| 12 | He 's waiting outside for Patrick . ’ |
| 13 | Do you know it is , it 's a little tiny but it 's going on for ages and ages . |
| 14 | and who 's going in for emergency surgery and whose chances of coming out are virtually nil anyway . |
| 15 | The record card for such a client was scribbled over with the comment of dealers : " He 's about to buy a house ; has no funds ; he 'll see how the shares he already has do ; he 's going in for Rolls Royce , so has no money ; he 's still waiting for share certificates — once these have arrived he will think about further investment . " |
| 16 | The council says that it is speaking up for smokers . |
| 17 | In fact : a full-length cinema-scope colour spread of BB on her stomach at the water 's edge displaying a bottom ‘ as bare as a censor 's eyeball ’ said Time ; BB rescued from the sea in a clinging wet dress ; her wedding night concealed behind some strategically tossed bed linen ; and her breasts showing in faint outline through the sheet she is holding up for modesty 's sake ( they were never seen unveiled ) . |
| 18 | Manager Malcolm Crosby wants to accept a £750,000 bid from Premier League Southampton — but his chairman Bob Murray vetoed the move and is holding out for £1 million . |
| 19 | MONEY and securities broking is doing well for MAI , the financial services and media combine run by the Labour peer , Lord Hollick . |
| 20 | The Ikon Gallery , whose lease is coming up for renewal in February 1993 , is studying the possibility of taking over a Victorian school next to the International Convention Centre . |
| 21 | It is thought that there might , it might have remained in the hands of some diplomats who were transferring it , and there were two of these issues , there is one in a private collection at present , so this is a second one , and number eight which is coming out for sale , but the number seven did change hands er a couple of years ago , so at about fifty five thousand pounds I believe . |
| 22 | And you never know when your husband is coming home for dinner , or if he 's coming home alone , or with his secretary or with a friend — I mean , you have nothing in your life to plan , not even that night , let alone the next day or the weekend . |
| 23 | LEPINE CONTINUES shooting about the classroom , and then returns to the lectern where Maryse Leclair is crying out for help . |
| 24 | The country is crying out for leadership and all Mr Smith has to offer is a talking-shop for academics and political has-beens . |
| 25 | Pininfarina , just across the aisle from Italdesign , is crying out for Vauxhall to take a similar level of interest in its Lotus Carlton-powered Chronos , making a second show appearance but this time as a fully engineered runner . |
| 26 | Peter Jones , of the ISO in Geneva , said : ‘ The US is crying out for copies of the draft standard . |
| 27 | The country is crying out for economy ; why not an enquiry into the Liverpool Police Force ? |
| 28 | The information industry is crying out for simplification and struggles desperately under the burden of its own complex , often incomprehensible jargon . |
| 29 | Time is running out for sentence appeal |
| 30 | Time is running out for Rev Michael Prentice and his flock . |