Example sentences of "for [adv] doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unoccupied person , finding a drum , may be seized with a desire to beat it ; but unless he is an imbecile he will be unable to continue beating it , and thereby satisfying a need ( rather than a ‘ desire ’ ) , without finding a reason for so doing . |
| 2 | On the other hand , Linnaeus , who had visited Chelsea a few months earlier , came in for severe criticism : ‘ … he has demolished not only Species but Genus without the least reason for so doing but that of having his method establish 'd and made universal , which I venture to affirm will be of very short duration ’ . |
| 3 | One secondary sense of neutrality regards persons as neutral if they can affect the fortunes of the parties and if they affect the fortunes of all the parties equally regardless of their reasons for so doing . |
| 4 | The Disabled Persons Registration Act 1944 provides that a disabled person can not be dismissed ( unless there is ‘ reasonable cause ’ for so doing ) if that would reduce the number of disabled workers in the business to below the fixed quota of 3 per cent . |
| 5 | People with a low tolerance for change therefore tend to fight hard to maintain the status quo , often without being able to articulate their reasons for so doing . |
| 6 | The High Court also refused the taxpayer 's application to strike out the Crown 's appeal against the Special Commissioner 's decision by using its discretion under RSC Ord 18 , r 19 ; there was no plain and obvious case for so doing . |
| 7 | In the latter case , they could be made the subject of a Mental Health Order , but there is little precedent for so doing . |
| 8 | The misanthropic gardener elevates his roses and relegates his relations and if challenged , as well he might be , would give us possibly good reasons for so doing . |
| 9 | The most that can be said is that a good case can be made out for so doing ; law-abiding spectators would probably be sympathetic , depending upon the outcome . |
| 10 | The Society placed the insurance with commercial insurers and received commission for so doing . |
| 11 | So in the midst of all this apparent optimism we have independent community initiatives , run by people who live in the community , groups who are trying to provide work , wealth , education , advice and community support — groups which are under fierce attack for so doing ! |
| 12 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 13 | According to legend , the ancient Britons painted themselves with woad to frighten their enemies but , almost certainly , this was not the only reason for so doing , since it is a styptic , i.e. it has the power to stop bleeding . |
| 14 | He wanted to say her name but he could not remember it ; he wanted to engage in the physical endearments and gentleness he so much prided himself on bestowing and was received so gratefully for so doing , but this lean , hard-bodied girl would have none of it . |
| 15 | Aethelred 's reasons for so doing are not made clear , but Wilfrid was head of a chain of monasteries which extended into Mercia ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 64 ) . |
| 16 | Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam . |
| 17 | The yard were adamant in insisting on the increased price without having any legal justification for so doing and the owners realised that the yard would not accept anything other than an unqualified agreement to the increase . |
| 18 | By the time Sister returned Wendy had removed the rest of the baby 's wrapping , and was reproached for so doing . |
| 19 | Valerie listened for suspicious sounds on the tape , and despised herself for so doing . |
| 20 | She marks the seasons ’ changes by the need to utter particular blessings , prepare ritual foods , explain the reasons for so doing in simple language to an infant audience . |
| 21 | So what you do as a trainer in a circus you try and encourage the animal to want to the act and to reinforce it for so doing and that may be food , it may be actually just affection for the people who are training and that 's what a trainer wants to try and . |
| 22 | The principal reason for so doing is the effect of statutory duties imposed on the landlord in respect of the provision of sanitary facilities in a multi-occupied building . |
| 23 | At least where a right to trial by jury exists , the courts are reluctant ( in cases where national security is not involved ) to allow the Attorney-General to side-step it by approaching the High Court for an injunction to stop the publication or for a declaration that the publication is unlawful : The Voluntary Euthanasia Society published a booklet entitled " A Guide to Self-Deliverance " which discussed the pros and cons of committing suicide and described in detail a number of efficacious methods for so doing . |
| 24 | Unless there are sound reasons for so doing , it does not make sense to go outside the established channel . |
| 25 | He would n't stand for ever doing nothing . |
| 26 | that can be used for actually doing , doing the recycling on each of those , and and I would like to say that that this , this report had been erm prepared jointly by officers of the Transportation Department who were responsible for the operational side and wi and the officers and regulation side of , of the Authority Planning Environment Department and therefore the comments in the air have been shared between erm both sides er what I would like to say is that as well as the recycling activities which are carried out in our household waste facilities of glass , paper , waste - oil , etc. , er there are we have in the last twelve months started two initiatives which I think will fall in into erm the , the first part - composting . |
| 27 | I have , I asked for an extension because like , in , in light of my present mathematical ne , need for seriousness , for seriously doing a hell of a lot of maths homework |