Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It created a statutory offence of riot — 12 or more people using or threatening violence for an unlawful purpose . |
| 2 | or ( f ) The method of demanding or securing payment for goods or services . |
| 3 | Some such concept is required to explain why different individuals reach different solutions in diagnosing and providing remedies for particular situations . |
| 4 | But as the judge quashed the indictment , the men were re-arrested in the dock and four other charges were brought : recruiting persons for training in sabotage and guerrilla warfare for the purpose of violent revolution , conspiring to aid foreign military units when they invaded the republic , furthering the aims of communism and soliciting and receiving funds for these purposes from several countries . |
| 5 | The stimulating article Some library costs and options by Brown ( an economist ) concludes ‘ it seems to be worth acquiring and providing storage for , books likely to be wanted more often than , once in about 1.7 years over a long period ’ . |
| 6 | The general reason is that the book aims to show why a philosophical question about Explaining and Understanding matters for theories of international relations . |
| 7 | I may be adequate for staging and synchronizing embryos for some purposes , a precise analysis of developmental mechanisms can only be undertaken on cells of known age . |
| 8 | Before I do that , may I deal with the intervention of the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) , who said that there was a difference between asset stripping and freeing capital for use in a company ? |
| 9 | Residents were sexually assaulted or goaded into assaulting one another , it was alleged , while staff looked on , drinking beer , laughing and ignoring pleas for help . |
| 10 | He had been promoting and popularising science for over 20 years . |
| 11 | ‘ I think it would help relations between client and accountant , since the small company client often sees the audit as a waste of money and finds it hard to appreciate the amount of time involved in vouching and verifying figures for audit . |
| 12 | The forests are full of all kinds of spiders , and the Forest Goblins are experts when it comes to capturing and finding uses for these creatures . |
| 13 | The union achievement in establishing and applying standards for design and safe use of VDUs is more striking when one considers that these policies had already been formulated before the Government Health and Safety Executive had to issue information and advice on the subject . |
| 14 | Each program contains a dialogue offering a wide range of choices affecting , for example , selection with respect to most data items , sort orders , print items per line , print lines per record , paging , number of copies , type of stationery , destination printer , real-time or batch execution , blackness of print image , redirection of printout to a computer file , creation of reference files to allow the same set of selected records to be used by another program , saving and naming selections for future use , local and remote printing , etc . |
| 15 | Defined procedures for seeking and obtaining approval for major transactions and organisational changes are in place along with a system of planning , budgeting and performance monitoring that is designed to identify any significant deviation from approved plans . |
| 16 | Since then the CIOB has played a leading role in developing and launching qualifications for construction managers and supervisors — namely the Site Supervisory Certificate , Site Management Certificate and Site Management Diploma . |
| 17 | Their last album , ‘ Churchtown ’ was their first on a major label and the band have spent recent weeks in West Cork , writing and demoing material for their third LP . |
| 18 | This sub system was set up and developed by the team who have retained responsibility for writing and testing programs for any new reporting requirement . |
| 19 | Soon he was writing and directing plays for television . |
| 20 | The charity still continues but as well as maintaining and providing extras for the school , grants are given for further education or books . |
| 21 | These are organized usually on a multiconstituency basis and are responsible for organizing and choosing candidates for constituencies within their areas . |
| 22 | ‘ The next step was to split the project into manageable categories where individuals could take specific responsibility for producing and getting acceptance for a group of procedures . ’ |
| 23 | Economic objectives , such as improving or converting buildings for industrial use , are assessed against measures that include units created , total floorspace involved and numbers of jobs created and/or preserved . |
| 24 | This can be produced in less than 12 hours , when previously designing and producing molds for prototypes could have taken weeks , if not months . |
| 25 | Have we been expelled from an arcadia of fun where nature provided us with innocent automata , lowing and braying machines for our amusement ? |
| 26 | Frankie left school and Dad found him a job with him , fetching and carrying sand for the men . |
| 27 | ‘ Imagine that it 's very cold and dark , that you 're old and hungry and that you love stealing and making trouble for people . ‘ |
| 28 | Whether the quartet actively looked around for a site is not known but in 1905 they formed a syndicate by joining with two other men — J. A. Rawlins and F. E. Theodor — who were already buying and selling land for development in the Shiplake and Harpsden areas and whose earlier purchases included Bolney Court , Lower Bolney Farm and Upper Bolney Farm . |
| 29 | This involves brokers generating income by constantly and needlessly buying and selling investments for their clients in order to collect the heavy commissions which accrue . |
| 30 | A person buying and selling investments for their own account . |