Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This controversy has been tainted by racism parading as a concern for the adolescents ’ welfare , ’ says Boudjema . |
| 2 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
| 3 | Still bearing in mind the essay in the humanist volume , I wrote to Eliot during the summer suggesting as a theme for his consideration one based on the statement : ‘ The problem of nationalism and the problem of disassociated personalities may turn out to be the same ’ . |
| 4 | Scroll through a long document in a DOS word processor , then compare that to wading through a Word for Windows file . |
| 5 | The remarkable Anderson , in addition to playing rugby and cricket at area and county junior levels , competing as a decathlete for Birchfield and qualifying to coach nine sporting events , gained an impressive tally of educational qualifications culminating in a Master 's degree from the University of Leicester . |
| 6 | It was alleged that he had accepted money from a German company bidding for a contract for the construction of the new Macao airport . |
| 7 | In 1969 he was fined £25 at Dunfermline Sheriff Court and was disqualified for driving for a year for failing to give police a blood or urine sample . |
| 8 | Palestinian , Israeli and Jordanian officials met with US State Department officials between Aug. 7-13 in an attempt to draw up mutually acceptable memoranda of understanding as a basis for the conference . |
| 9 | We have been told that it would be a waste of time applying for a permit for any other foreign rider . |
| 10 | The solicitors informed the local authority that they would be applying for an order for costs against the authority . |
| 11 | Information derived from these is used in a variety of ways , but most frequently in contributing towards a base for decision-making in the areas of planning and marketing . |
| 12 | The leader in the second paper , headed ‘ An Affront to Human Dignity , ’ was on much the same lines , ending with a demand for a Royal Commission to look into the ‘ hidden and possibly evil secrets of the laboratories of Britain 's universities ’ and an appeal to ‘ right-thinking people ’ to raise their voices against this outrageous treatment of a helpless baby . |
| 13 | Imagine walking into a room for a meeting with the head of your organisation . |
| 14 | He was also carrying £70,000 which he was depositing in a bank for payment for the work that had just been completed . |
| 15 | JAMES FREEMAN , chairman of the Mid-Hants Railway plc , the company which runs the Watercress Line between Alresford and Alton , has reported favourably on the past six months trading in a briefing for shareholders and members , writes RICHARD BEAN . |
| 16 | The ships they could see on the right side of the aircraft were returning from a rehearsal for the service of remembrance that was held on the ocean every year . |
| 17 | Then comes the expected , ‘ unless the custody officer has reasonable grounds for believing that his detention without being charged is necessary to secure or preserve evidence relating to an offence for which he is under arrest or to obtain such evidence by questioning him ’ [ emphasis added ] . |
| 18 | I have recently been made aware that your Council has been involved in a public inquiry relating to an appeal for the erection of a football stadium and associated commercial development within the Oxford Green Belt . |
| 19 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 20 | His mum was a big , volatile , typically Italian mamma who came to live in Britain in 1949 where she made her living as a cook for a medical family in North London until marrying Fred 's father who was Spanish . |
| 21 | After living as a vagrant for several more months and getting nowhere in his search for Katya , Grandfather Denknetzeyan decided to leave his beloved Russia . |
| 22 | Africa is just serving as a mirror for the West 's new ideologies . |
| 23 | I further submit that the features of the doctrine of consent which I have identified , so far from facilitating the patient 's self-determination , are in fact capable of serving as a blueprint for making considerable inroads into , and even for disregarding altogether , the need for consent . |
| 24 | In 1648 he was serving as a commissioner for the militia and for the collection of tax arrears in London , by which time he had also already branched out into commerce , being recorded as a shipowner . |
| 25 | One advantage of setting up these centres is that they may help a two-way flow of ideas for efficient technology , possibly serving as a model for changes to Western society . |
| 26 | The challenge to make the 88000-based systems a binary-compatible standard across a wide range of high-volume , multi-vendor platforms has largely failed , despite the 88open binary compatibility standard , to which DG heavily contributed , serving as a model for how it should be done . |
| 27 | In fact , dna acts as the chemical basis for heredity , serving as a template for its own replication and for instructing the sequence of amino acids and proteins . |
| 28 | They should be introduced to initiate linguistic understanding , serving as a focus for wider discussion , when the teacher judges that an intervention to make something explicit will help the pupil . |
| 29 | The potential of Belbin 's analysis for team management includes clarifying team needs when recruiting new members , allocation of roles , identifying training and development needs , constituting new teams and serving as a basis for team review . |
| 30 | This particular interpretation of the word ‘ object ’ was invented as if to make it virtually some sort of fetish , serving as a basis for an entire movement ; and that is what is interesting : found objects , this object , that object . |