Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [noun] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This presently comprises ten separate modern halls providing accommodation for around 1,800 students . |
| 2 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 3 | Instead of an awarding body for the ‘ small cadet universities ’ as conceived by Robbins , the CNAA had become a ‘ permanent major degree awarding body for very large institutions … of a new kind ’ — and therefore , as Eric Robinson suggested in 1973 , the universities now had to share the apex of the educational system with the polytechnics and the CNAA . |
| 4 | The Northern Ireland Prison Service said that any visitors holding passes for today should contact their relevant prison on Monday to rearrange their visit . |
| 5 | The latter was defined by Soviet terminology in the 1920s as all establishments producing goods for more than one household but employing thirty wage-earners or less ; or if motive power was used , fifteen wage-earners or less . |
| 6 | Although British summers are likely to become hotter and drier as a result of the greenhouse effect , scientists do n't foresee major changes taking place for about 40 years . |
| 7 | Opposition victories over the ruling communist parties in both republics threatened to deepen Yugoslavia 's political and ethnic crises , the victors having put forward manifestos featuring demands for greatly increased autonomy for the republics , even to the point of secession from Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | JOHN SMITHS HAS dominated the Glasgow bookselling scene for even longer than Thins has been preeminent in Edinburgh , but there are differences . |
| 9 | In the field of archiving , low cost digitising scanners for both text and illustrations may soon make possible practical , on-site multimedia archiving . |
| 10 | Thomson , and a reformist journalist called Adolphe Smith , set out to produce a similar but better document on urban poverty , this time using photography for more accurate illustrations . |
| 11 | There were also some presentational reductions in prices in some isolated , small-scale undertakings , where domestic consumers using electricity for very little more than lighting had been charged very high flat rates per kWh . |
| 12 | This was an old country house with large grounds providing room for about sixty to seventy people . |