Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] for doing [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as Figure 6.41 shows , the space for these uses has been won often by removing cars to off-street parking areas , yet the opportunity for doing so is strictly limited by the availability of existing breaks in the facades of the buildings . |
| 2 | The Gold Standard , Bretton Woods , the Sterling Area , the unofficial Deutschmark peg , and the ERM have all provided both the means and the excuse for doing so . |
| 3 | While the responsibility for doing so remains with the project leader , the accountant should be accepted as a part time member of the project team and encouraged to contribute ideas . |
| 4 | While the responsibility for doing so remains with the project leader , the accountant should be accepted as a part time member of the project team and encouraged to contribute ideas . |
| 5 | Any standard form of building contract incorporates two elements : the basic agreement between the parties that the contractor will carry out and complete the work and that the employer will pay the contractor for doing so ; and detailed conditions which define how this will happen and procedures which are to be followed . |
| 6 | The climate for doing so is more favourable than for some years past . |
| 7 | The tax and social security authorities are less likely to consider that the motive for doing so is avoidance . |
| 8 | Nothing in the Code seeks to prevent a suspect volunteering a statement after charge otherwise than in response to questioning , but it is presumably such an infrequent occurrence that it was not thought necessary to spell out the procedure for doing so . |
| 9 | In any case , if a writer has managed to put some key point rather well , why not both give him the credit for doing so , and at the same time avoid struggling to reinvent the wheel ? |
| 10 | It gave us both lots of pleasure trying to work out the various clues , so we shall give ourselves a pat on the back for doing so well — hope you will have some more mind-boggling competitions in the future . |
| 11 | There is merit in confining the project budget to a single sheet of paper displaying the names of the people concerned , the estimates on which the decision to go ahead is based , and the authority for doing so . |
| 12 | There is merit in confining the project budget to a single sheet of paper displaying the names of the people concerned , the estimates on which the decision to go ahead is based , and the authority for doing so . |
| 13 | I do n't blame the woman for doing as much as possible on television with in those advertisements because I think that woman have got only a short life in those ads because she 'd get bored with them . |
| 14 | One problem for small businesses is that capital needs to be reinvested over a number of years yet there are no special allowances provided by the government for doing so . |
| 15 | The rationale for doing so is that consumption of capital assets is one of the costs of earning the revenues of the business and as such is paid from untaxed income under the tax authority 's rules . |
| 16 | The rationale for doing so is that consumption of capital assets is one of the costs of earning the revenues of the business and as such is paid from untaxed income under the tax authority 's rules . |
| 17 | Slater was silent for a second , gazing disdainfully at Graham 's snapping fingers , then he said tiredly , " Graham , either concentrate on searching for the title of the book you 're talking about or devote your full energies to practising calling for a waiter ; I 'm not convinced you possess the RAM for doing both at the same time . " |
| 18 | She was talkative and forthright in her opinions , which she gave freely and often without the qualification for doing so . |
| 19 | The reward for doing so has been stated as revealing a view of the towers of York Minster , a claim difficult to believe without visual evidence . |
| 20 | It presently regards certain expressions as ‘ unparliamentary ’ and a Member who persists in the use of such expressions stands ultimately to be punished by the House for doing so . |
| 21 | Does the Department of Trade and Industry accept that , while there may be no short-term commercial interest in giving export credit cover , there is a case for doing so in the national and long-term commercial interest ? |
| 22 | He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn . |
| 23 | Two or three Zuwaya had reputations as excellent poets and would record their poems if pressed : indeed , one made a charge for doing so , a practice not approved by all . |
| 24 | The princess had never agreed to attend the gala , nor had she demanded a fee for doing so . |
| 25 | A few proponents of the change effort saw themselves as having to provide the executive leadership for the change and having to develop a strategy for doing so . |
| 26 | But the fact that introducing people to each other in those circumstances facilitates social contacts is itself a reason for doing so . |
| 27 | The first is that people should read signposts when they have no reason for doing so ( the reason is the management 's ) and the second is that they " should be willing — and should remember — to follow the instructions . |
| 28 | Mazzin did n't lose his temper , although I could feel he was itching to have a go at me , but , as before , he knew he had no justification for doing so . |
| 29 | He says there is no justification for doing so . |
| 30 | They will also have to decide what IPC means in practice for the 3500-odd industrial processes under their control and as yet have set no timetable for doing so . |