Example sentences of "and [v-ing] the [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A proactive stance is essential in terms of setting and maintaining the mood for change across the various agencies of justice . |
| 2 | Politically it was the awakening of these groups which was most important , for as Professor Christie has concluded : |
| 3 | Shouting ‘ Long live democracy ’ and singing the ‘ Internationale ’ , they were in some ways evoking the spirit of ‘ May Fourth ’ and paving the way for others to take in following years . |
| 4 | But getting rid of the TV and keeping the bedroom for sex could be the best cure of all . |
| 5 | Traditionally in summer they were based ashore , living in skin tents and sod huts , hunting and fishing from skin canoes ( kayaks and family-sized umiaks ) among the ice floes , trapping fish at weirs and stone barriers in the rivers , and searching the tundra for caribou , musk oxen , smaller game , birds , eggs and berries . |
| 6 | A great deal of time and energy has gone into dealing with anomalies and revising the formula for funding so that it distributes more fairly on the basis of need . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , to be honest , by now I expected you to be shrugging your shoulders and turning the car for home . |
| 8 | And extra investment in industry will be directed to still further improving that productivity and minimising the need for manpower . |
| 9 | The tongued and grooved joints , in addition to allowing concealed fixing with neat joint lines and removing the need for grouting , negate the need for special skills thus reducing installation costs . |
| 10 | He must have then done some painting on Mr. Bellersis ' work as there are two more references to his colouring and finishing the colouring for Mr. Bellersis Also , when in London he used to visit his former teacher John Landseer and also mentioned going with him to see plates , ‘ and compositor printer at work ’ . |
| 11 | Koriyama city was able to provide the museum with a budget of ¥6,400 million ( £26.6 million ) , spending ¥4,000 million ( £16.6 million ) on the building and reserving the rest for acquisitions . |
| 12 | The allocation of discrete tasks to non-executives advocated by Cadbury , coupled with their monitoring role , is seen as divisive , robbing the board of its power to manage and creating the potential for boardroom splits . |
| 13 | Aelian King , when District Judge at Badulla , wrote that it was common ‘ for the people , at the season for ploughing and preparing the soil for sowing , to help themselves without their neighbour 's leave to the labour of their neighbour 's buffaloes , which they find roaming at large . ’ |
| 14 | Such shortcomings must be set against the big truth — that today 's CAP is a supremely insidious way of extracting $85 billion from consumers within the EC , and queering the pitch for farmers everywhere else . |
| 15 | In announcing yesterday that its Automated Pit Trading system will start on 30 November , the London International Financial Futures Exchange inserted the final element in a cautious but promising strategy for intergrating electronic trading and open outcry , and setting the pace for exchange reform in London . |
| 16 | There are , of course , many other companies up and down the country which are similarly investing and growing , and laying the foundation for prosperity in the 1990s . |
| 17 | The first of these objections to the Baker — Hacker interpretation can be answered by saying that although the practice which constitutes knowing and following the rule for pain could be operated away from any community ( on a desert island ) if it could be set up , the problem is not in the operation but in the institution of the practice . |
| 18 | Interest rates are adjusted from time to time to reflect market conditions , and will be chosen to balance long-term inflows of deposits with the demand for loans : higher interest rates attracting more deposits and reducing the demand for loans . |