Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [noun] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appearing in court for the Corporation of Lloyd 's , Stephen Ruttle said : ‘ Mr Cameron- Webb is marginally short on merits . |
| 2 | The Notes to Rule 9.1 expand on some of the circumstances in which persons will be deemed to be acting in concert for the purposes of Rule 9 ( see paras 8.4.5 and 8.4.6 below ) . |
| 3 | A few months ago they had a row , and Steve stormed off and went nightclubbing in London for the weekend . |
| 4 | Blame for the attack was put on pro-government " death squads " operating in retaliation for the killing of government supporters by the JVP . |
| 5 | Lying in wait for the industry are further pressures from environmental issues such as the level of nitrates in water and continuing EEC attempts to tackle the problem of its Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 6 | Taken in by the image of yourself they present you with , wrote Harsnet , instead of waiting in patience for the beginning , instead of waiting and then beginning , though beginning , having begun , he wrote , is not everything , is far from everything . |
| 7 | Then back to England at the end of the war , waiting in Bombay for the boat , no black out this time ! |
| 8 | He was in the main street before nine o'clock and many of the shops were not yet open ; assistants were waiting in doorways for the boss to arrive with the keys . |
| 9 | ‘ The taxpayer here has carried on marketing activities outside Hong Kong resulting in agreements for the sale or sub-licensing of intellectual property rights also exercisable only outside the colony . |
| 10 | The World 's top three-day eventers are getting in shape for the Badminton Horse trials next month … and they chose Oxfordshire for their last-minute preparations . |
| 11 | I 'd got Nicola to say five o'clock because I knew the pool would be busy , with businessmen and secretaries dipping before heading home and a fair smattering of kids getting in practice for the school team . |
| 12 | Then they lunched , visited the extremely hard-working Swiss masseurs , and spent the remainder of the day resting in preparation for the rigours of the following morning . |
| 13 | ‘ … free People today announced what they are demanding in exchange for the release of Liam Shakespeare . |
| 14 | Paul , on the other hand , is an improbably fresh-faced 22 , who might just have to start shaving in time for the return of Halley 's comet . |
| 15 | Later in 1947 he joined the Nobel Division of Imperial Chemical Industries as a mining engineer specialising in explosives for the mining , quarrying and oil-prospecting industries . |
| 16 | Which is ironic , since we have met up at the Wardour Street , a company specialising in neurotechnology for the consumer . |
| 17 | Which is ironic , since we have met up at the Wardour Street , a company specialising in neurotechnology for the consumer . |
| 18 | Redwood City , California-based Ross Systems Inc , specialising in applications for the VMS world , has introduced Renaissance CS , its Digital Equipment Corp VAX/VMS-based suite of financial applications and accompanying development environment adapted for use with client-server architectures . |
| 19 | The first trap is a sentimental romanticism that turns our attention away from the present battle and leaves us wallowing in nostalgia for the past . |
| 20 | Arriving in mid-August for the Museum of Flight at Santa Monica , California , was the Yak-3 , described as ‘ on indefinite loan from the Soviet Union ’ . |
| 21 | In any case , he added , people did not show up for the political meetings , only arriving in time for the drinking afterwards . |
| 22 | ARRIVING in time for the Christmas market is a double video pack , Great Warplanes of the RAF . |
| 23 | It 's all very well putting in applications for the bank to loan you large sums of money , but it is quite another thing to have them accepted . |
| 24 | Mr Davis has spent thousands of pounds fighting in court for the gypsies ' rights to stay . |
| 25 | ‘ Hurry up — I gather people are standing in line for the loo . ’ |
| 26 | Most importantly we are investing in management for the future . |
| 27 | Our costs are : 1 ) secretarial and postage — the distribution of information to members ; 2 ) production and distribution of publicity material , eg at bike events ; 3 ) subscriptions to organisations working in Scotland for the interests of cycling ; 4 ) travel expenses to our Council meetings , which are held four times a year . |
| 28 | Our costs are : 1 ) secretarial and postage — the distribution of information to members ; 2 ) production and distribution of publicity material , eg at bike events ; 3 ) subscriptions to organisations working in Scotland for the interests of cycling ; 4 ) travel expenses to our Council meetings , which are held four times a year . |
| 29 | Our costs are : 1 ) secretarial and postage — the distribution of information to members ; 2 ) production and distribution of publicity material , eg at bike events ; 3 ) subscriptions to organisations working in Scotland for the interests of cycling ; 4 ) travel expenses to our Council meetings , which are held four times a year . |
| 30 | The following day the IDA advised Raybestos to cease dumping in Ringaskiddy for the moment . |