Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Potten et al have recently reported that in vivo bromodeoxyuridine labelling indices for the rectal mucosa were lower than those for the rest of the colon , which were fairly homogeneous . |
| 2 | The government was also pursuing plans for the increased privatization of state-owned enterprises . |
| 3 | ‘ But clearly , although they are not producing computers for the same sector of the market place , they are both manufacturing plants . ’ |
| 4 | We 're building shops for the new town . |
| 5 | In August 1899 , Joseph revisited his Valley of Winding Waters for the first time in twenty-two years . |
| 6 | ‘ Trading conditions for the coming year remain uncertain as clients ’ spending plans still have to be made known , ’ said Ball . |
| 7 | As one commentator noted wryly , there are more companies announcing Pentium-based machines then there are actual processors : a couple of dozen manufacturers spread their wares and Intel topped the whole thing off by announcing prices for the first time , and they are not cheap — 60MHz Pentiums cost $878 , while the 66MHz chip is $965 in quantities of 1,000 . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister would be most welcome to visit the Wallsend part of North Tyneside where he would have an opportunity to visit Swan Hunter and see a dedicated work force , a dedicated management and , above all , the pride of the people in Wallsend in building and refitting ships for the Royal Navy . |
| 9 | Bully Boy 's owner , Ron Taylor , who is involved in various interests in Lambourn , admitted to having ‘ a nice punt ’ on the six-year-old , who was tackling fences for the first time . |
| 10 | Senior civil servants , the privileged connoisseurs of prime-ministerial style and procedure , tend not to be purist about the operational implications of Cabinet conventions , except when routinely deploying them in the occasional public lecture or dismissing requests for the early declassification of harmless material . |
| 11 | The minutes of a meeting in 1909 record that one antivivisection activist , a Mrs Cowan , had produced a circular recommending prayers for the sudden death of persons making experiments on animals . |
| 12 | John Taylor introduced Harriet to leading members of the Unitarian religious movement , and shortly thereafter she began writing articles for the Unitarian magazine , Monthly Repository . |
| 13 | Climate Changer is an intriguing choice , since its business to date has been developing applications for the air-conditioning industry — its previous link to OCT had been as a large user of the machines . |
| 14 | The flood of money disappearing into China is causing problems for the Taiwanese economy . |
| 15 | I have already suggested that in speech we normally plan at the point of utterance and that is evidenced in those typical features of speech which appear so surprising and , indeed , shocking to people inspecting transcripts for the first time . |
| 16 | The principal organizations promoting holidays for the working class in the early inter-war period were fired by motives very different from those of Billy Butlin . |
| 17 | I am enclosing tickets for the new play and as they are in the front stalls , I may see you as I come on , ; but do not expect me to salute you , you understand , as I shall be taken up with my part . |
| 18 | ‘ One suggestion is to develop our expertise in species management and to support countries establishing systems for the sustainable exploitation of wildlife . ’ |
| 19 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 20 | Concurrent verbalisation was found to reduce balancing times for the right hand but not the left hand . |
| 21 | The French authorities did something to safeguard communal property among their Moslem subjects in Algeria , even though Napoleon III ( in the Senatus-Consulte of 1863 ) found it inconceivable that individual property rights in land should not be established formally among the members of Moslem communities ‘ where possible and opportune ’ , a measure which actually had the effect of permitting Europeans for the first time to buy them out . |
| 22 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |
| 23 | Greece and Turkey will become cheap manufacturing bases producing goods for the Middle East and North Africa ; |
| 24 | Certainly no impression from visits to primary schools in Africa has been borne more strongly on me than the importance of providing opportunities for the professional growth and survival of teachers in schools . |
| 25 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 26 | Locating resources for the broad range of anticipated interests has brought about federation with various institutes and libraries in Berlin . |
| 27 | Russianization was pointless while they kept the lower orders in their place and went on providing generals for the Russian army . |
| 28 | DOTING couple Alf and Jean Smith are on speaking terms for the first time in TEN YEARS . |
| 29 | You should read this section if you are installing FMS for the first time , or are not sure if you have sufficient global sections and global pages available . |
| 30 | According to Reuter , he is known on Wall Street for his prowess as a cost-cutter and an asset-seller , a reputation that is likely to cause consternation among IBM employees already facing lay-offs for the first time in the company 's history . |