Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great majority of them are looking for the theatre of books , and it is not there . |
| 2 | There are currently 79,000 children and young people being cared for by the local authorities in the U.K. and half of them are looking for foster homes . |
| 3 | Little wonder , really , that right now the two of them are looking for the time of their life with someone of their own age . |
| 4 | All three of them are looking for work in large towns . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of them are planned for areas in the South Downs , which we really do n't want . |
| 6 | Foreign Minister Levi told the Knesset ( parliament ) on March 18 : " Those who carried out the murder and those who sent them are destined for a painful punishment . |
| 7 | Where an employer seeks to impose new terms , he necessarily faces the problem of the previously bargained contract of employment and must initially show a sound good business reason to justify the changes when dismissals resulting from refusals to accept them are assessed for their fairness . |
| 8 | Many of them are farming for little more than the subsidies . |
| 9 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |
| 10 | Let me tell you about the Barking women most of them are dead , some of them are working for local authority . |
| 11 | A few weeks of war and from what the psychiatrists are saying more than half of them are shattered for life . |
| 12 | Outlaws from the forests to the south , grown over-bold ; let them be taken for that , and they might yet make another and a better attempt . |
| 13 | What had they been looking for ? |
| 14 | As they go to the polls the voters know what package of compromises they are voting for . |
| 15 | natural and I 'm and I never was , but I like to know what I 'm voting for and I like to tell the people who I 'm responsible for what they are voting for . |
| 16 | They are scripted for NCR System 3000 , Sun , HP DECstation and IBM hosts . |
| 17 | All theoretical treatments of the quantised Hall effect proposed so far require there to be no dissipative scattering if they are to account for the values of h/Ne 2 at the plateaux . |
| 18 | They are overcharging for fitting childrens ' safety seats . |
| 19 | At present , road blocks can only be set if the police have reasonable grounds for believing a serious offence is about to be committed , or if they are searching for someone who intends to commit an offence . |
| 20 | Now they are searching for the fourth sister Pamela , who walked out at the age of 15 after a row with her father . |
| 21 | They are searching for passengers who made the first ever trip with them to Jersey 40 years ago . |
| 22 | They are searching for passengers who made the first ever trip with them to Jersey 40 years ago . |
| 23 | Whilst they are searching for the relevant information , their inventories of unsold goods will start to build up . |
| 24 | At present they are manufactured for Canon under licence by Sussex-based Audio Electronics , but eventually they may be made in the UK by Canon itself . |
| 25 | Only among the over-75s are men more likely to be caring than women ( 10 per cent compared with 6 per cent ) , mainly because of the care they are providing for a disabled spouse ( Evandron , 1990 , pp. 6–7 ) . |
| 26 | This means they take no risk when they stock it , as they are reimbursed for any copies left unsold at the end of the week . |
| 27 | It seems that this perception is a common one amongst black kids , whether they are headed for a sports career or not . |
| 28 | They do n't want them arrested for doing what they are trained for , so they do n't arrest agents of Argentina . |
| 29 | Another implication of this advice is that teachers need not begin keeping cupboards full of evidence from every pupil over three year periods in case they are selected for a random sample check on teacher assessments . |
| 30 | Schedules are handy reference points , ways of showing clients what they are getting for their money , and the bases on which the media people actually go out to buy time and space . |