Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 2 | Catering for more than 100,000 students a year , the Millars had a major influence on the dissemination of socialist ideas . |
| 3 | Catering for more than one language at a time |
| 4 | Catering for more than one language at a time |
| 5 | THE NHS should charge fees for old people who need nursing for more than 13 weeks in long-stay wards , a leading consultant said today . |
| 6 | Is n't this what you 've been angling for ever since we crashed ? |
| 7 | They had been walking for less than ten minutes when it began to spit . |
| 8 | If you are held from getting airborne or landing for more than 5 minutes by our AIR/GROUND radio , we will give you your lesson free ! ! |
| 9 | This is defined under s15(1) as : 15 – ( 1 ) A consumer hire agreement is an agreement made by a person with an individual ( the " hirer " ) for the bailment or ( in Scotland ) the hiring of goods to the hirer , being an agreement which ( a ) is not a hire purchase agreement , and ( b ) is capable of subsisting for more than three months , and ( c ) does not require the hirer to make payments exceeding [ £15,000 ] . |
| 10 | This competition is open to anyone who has been trading for less than three years ( ie since May 1989 ) . |
| 11 | On Aug. 9 the firm admitted that on several occasions in 1990 it had manipulated auctions of US securities by bidding for more than 35 per cent of the securities on offer , thereby exceeding the government 's ceiling on acquisitions by primary dealers . |
| 12 | An autocorrelation will then be directly related to the corresponding space correlation with separation in the mean flow direction , the same curve applying for both when one puts . |
| 13 | Predictably , below the top 20 firms , it is the larger firms that have the greater number of listed clients , and there are no firms with fewer than seven partners acting for more than two listed companies . |
| 14 | But I 'll find the men I 'm looking for sooner or later . |
| 15 | I mean it may well be we 'll say in year seven , look the things we 're looking for here and I want everybody to comment on is , A er , how well they 've settled down er how well they 're getting on with others but there 's no reason why you ca n't make those decisions . |
| 16 | And what are we looking for there and there ? |
| 17 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 18 | Georgina Philippou , at stockbroker Marshall & Co , is looking for more than £30m ( £18.5m ) for the year . |
| 19 | This was the purpose of such proposals as annual or biennial elections , a prohibition on any representative serving for more than two consecutive terms , single-chamber legislatures , and so on . |
| 20 | Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles broke his silence following newspaper reports which suggested that Charles and Camilla had been secretly meeting for more than 10 years and that there was evidence of a ‘ passionate intimacy ’ . |
| 21 | The laboratory , at Evesham in Worcestershire , has been operating for more than forty years . |
| 22 | Among women under 65 who were caring for more than twenty hours a week , only 40 per cent were employed , compared with 62 per cent of women generally ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 23 | Heavier caring responsibilities were clearly associated with lower rates of employment ; only about one-fifth of working-age women providing more than fifty hours a week care for an elderly person were employed , compared with two-thirds of married women and half of all single ( never-married ) women caring for less than twenty hours a week ( McLaughlin , 1989 ) . |
| 24 | Environment Secretary Michael Howard 's victory means an increase in the public sector borrowing requirement , already heading for more than £32 billion for next year . |
| 25 | Conservative support in the larger cities has been declining for more than 25 years . |
| 26 | This would put less than 10p on the production cost of a musicassette selling for more than £5 in the shops . |
| 27 | Dealers request leniency as almost nothing is selling for more than $80,000 in Japan at present |
| 28 | The ancient servitor , who drove with a slack rein and a sublime disregard of the pot-holes , seemed to take it as a personal affront that Miss Kyte had kept him waiting for more than two hours . |
| 29 | The hospital 's track record on waiting lists bears comparison with any in the country , with the number of those waiting for more than two years for in-patient treatment having decreased since June 1990 from 137 to 18 . |
| 30 | That news will come as a welcome relief to the authority , which has been waiting for more than three months for a reply from the Home Secretary . |