Example sentences of "[adv] for [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both China and India were signatories , but only on condition that they received substantial assistance from the West ( both financial and technological ) to ensure that they were not penalized economically for having to use the more expensive alternatives to CFCs . |
| 2 | God is to be trusted yet people are doubting : that is justification enough for trying to understand doubt . |
| 3 | So much for trying to make a science out of commonsense ! |
| 4 | So much for trying to get away . |
| 5 | Just use a simple phrase like , ‘ Well , I think you 've told me all I need to know , thank you very much for coming to see us ’ . |
| 6 | This note is to thank you very much for going to see Paul in hospital . |
| 7 | This means at least 70 per cent of people attending fertility clinics will feel they are failures — not only for having to attend the clinic , but also for not having succeeded with treatment ; they may also feel they have failed the clinic and the doctor , as well as themselves , their partners and families . |
| 8 | In late May a number of Hun Sen 's reformist allies ( including Transport Minister Ung Phan ) were arrested , apparently for trying to establish a rival political party . |
| 9 | Rounding the bend from the top path down towards the stable she was brandishing a stick , beating the cows ' dripping rumps and cursing them aloud for refusing to hurry . |
| 10 | A recent Dogs Today letter writer told how much strife he 'd endured , merely for trying to have his three German Shepherds live under the same roof as himself . |
| 11 | She says it 's great , especially for getting to work . |
| 12 | Glendenen probably remembers the match best for having to face a 14-ball opening over from Essex 's former Hampshire paceman Steve Andrew , who currently has a fractured shoulder . |
| 13 | June , too , had wanted to be noticed for herself and not just for fading to attain impossibly high standards . |
| 14 | ‘ More care and concern , especially for disadvantaged pupils ’ runs headlong into ‘ Teachers are not social workers : school is for learning , not for trying to rectify social injustice ’ . |
| 15 | Questions of the witnesses credibility may be relevant , and will be considered below ; that his evidence is controversial , taken alone , merely establishes that it is material to the issues in the case ; it is a reason for making an order , not for refusing to do so . |
| 16 | ‘ We are getting substantial rent-free periods and are being offered large capital contributions ’ — a sum paid by the landlord to the tenant , usually for shopfitting to entice customers into the mall or high street . |
| 17 | In a separate development , a UK court on June 12 and 13 sentenced two UK-based business executives , Ali Daghir and Jeanine Speckman , to prison terms of five years and 18 months respectively for conspiring to export to Iraq 40 capacitors used in the manufacture of nuclear bombs . |
| 18 | AIDS victim Alberto Gonzalez , 28 , got five years jail yesterday for trying to murder a girl of 17 by unsafe sex . |
| 19 | A COUSIN of Prince Charles was pulled over by police yesterday for trying to dodge a queue of traffic on a motorway slip road . |
| 20 | A TEENAGE IRA girl was jailed for 10 years yesterday for plotting to kill troops — while her accomplice was given life for helping in the murder of a businessman . |
| 21 | UMPIRE Steve Bucknor came under fire yesterday for refusing to view a TV replay in a run-out incident which could have a bearing on the second Test between South Africa and India . |
| 22 | Twenty-eight ambulance control officers in the London area were suspended without pay yesterday for refusing to cover for colleagues taking industrial action . |
| 23 | THE TRANSPORT Secretary was attacked yesterday for failing to bring in screening of passenger baggage to be stored in aircraft holds , and for putting commercial interests ahead of tighter security . |
| 24 | THE Department of Transport was severely criticised yesterday for failing to apply proper sanctions against contractors who have cost taxpayers £70 million through poor workmanship and inadequate supervision of nearly 130 roads and bridges built since 1970 . |
| 25 | BIRDS Eye Walls was fined £4,400 yesterday for failing to indicate the use of textured soya protein in the names of some of their beef and chicken products . |
| 26 | ‘ OPT-OUT parents ’ were attacked by the Scottish Secretary yesterday for threatening to create a drop-out generation . |
| 27 | Nicky Mohan will miss the opening game of the Premier League after being sent off at Molineux after being sent off for trying to break up a fight ! |
| 28 | I excused myself but was ticked off for trying to slim . |
| 29 | Hence we get what would otherwise be an absurdity : the spectacle of linguists telling speakers off for wanting to make ‘ unnecessary ’ changes in their language , which is seen , oddly , as something that exists independently of the speakers who use it . |
| 30 | The Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 20 by seven to two that parents suspected of child abuse could be imprisoned indefinitely for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of their children . |