Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [verb] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no more resources than Charles Surface , he entertained London society with great panache and little regard for mounting debts . |
| 2 | The water authority will reject applications for the use of septic tanks when absorption tests are unsatisfactory or where the siting of the tank could result in pollution to a spring , stream or well used for drinking purposes . |
| 3 | Put together , they could be said to constitute more than the ‘ perhaps one or two opportunities ’ the discussion set out to find , but an outline strategy for reclaiming a grossly under-used source of much-needed brain-power in the boardroom : a strategy that now calls for sharpening and refining . |
| 4 | Based on beer and widely used for preserving and pickling , malt vinegar is also available as a strong , colourless , distilled vinegar which is particularly useful for preserving foods that have to last a long time . |
| 5 | There was a cloakroom too , if she remembered rightly , with a nice rosy brick floor that really paid for doing . |
| 6 | Where the fore wings are markedly larger than the hind pair there is a corresponding greater development of the mesothorax ( Hymenoptera , and also Diptera where the hind wings are reduced in size and not used for flying ) . |
| 7 | He had the worst of all Test baptisms , in 1975 ; went further into his shell when heavily criticised for touring South Africa in 1982 ( a £25,000 libel settlement from the sun a compensation ) ; and found country captaincy too much first time round . |
| 8 | The copy master and the backup copy remain the property of the Publisher and they must be returned to the Publisher 's appointed representative when not required for making licensed copies . |