Example sentences of "and [prep] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be . |
| 2 | The British Medical Association led an attack on the eugenists for confusing undesirable behaviour with mental deficiency and for advocating sterilisation of the feeble-minded . |
| 3 | Since he was also responsible for teaching a weekly class of seven young women at Lady Margaret Hall ( a women 's college in North Oxford ) and for teaching philosophy to the undergraduates of Magdalen , his first few years at the College were strenuous . |
| 4 | It is much easier for Amnesty to help members to do more specialised campaigning if they belong to a group — in particular , we have systems for providing group members with training , and for getting feedback from them — but there may be new types of groups we could develop , and even ways of offering more personalised approaches to campaigning to individual members . |
| 5 | The Author would like to thank the RAF Museum for its co-operation in the making of this article , and for allowing reference to its own publication on Sugar , A Very Special Lancaster by F E Dymond . |
| 6 | English Nature , the government 's official watchdog on nature conservation , was criticized at the time by environmental groups for entering into the deal with Fisons , and for allowing extraction of peat on a site of special scientific interest [ see ED 57 ] . |
| 7 | In recent weeks Bakatin had come under criticism from senior military and KGB officers for his perceived failure to tackle the current crime wave , and for suggesting decentralization of control of limited contingents of Interior Ministry troops to republican governments . |
| 8 | There are options for producing headlines , for using different typefaces and for positioning text on the screen . |
| 9 | Janet was a pupil of the well-respected Professor Charcot ( 1825–1893 ) , who was responsible for founding the Salpêtrière School of Hypnotism in France and for bringing credibility to the subject . |
| 10 | I have no doubt that her organisational ability would fit her well for arranging staff training , and for undertaking training in her specialist areas . |
| 11 | The British Technology Group will be responsible for all patenting and for handling licensing of any technologies which the member companies do not want . |
| 12 | They were , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , responsible for the general management of this category of Crown properties — for the felling of timber in the forests for the Royal Navy , for repairs to Crown property , for royal gifts to subjects , or for sale ; for dealing with claims to customary rights in the Forest , for paying the keepers ' wages and for providing hay for the deer in times of scarcity . |
| 13 | According to Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine , the committee will be responsible for advising the government on issues such as environmental regulation , and for providing guidance to the business community . |
| 14 | All Departments of the University again appointed a Liaison Officer to be responsible for bringing Convocation and its events to the attention of their students and for providing information to be passed on to Convocation members , and there was some useful discussion at a tea-time meeting between Liaison Officers and committee members on 21 January 1992 . |
| 15 | Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets . |
| 16 | The letter , Living our Faith , spoke of the gap between rich and poor , and criticized the government for human rights violations and for preventing freedom of expression . |
| 17 | Briefly , the code of practice specifies standards for providing wholesome water , for supplying a constant water supply at the appropriate water pressure , and for treating sewage in a comprehensive and environmentally sensitive way . |
| 18 | Reuters news agency cited him as saying that he and Klaus had agreed a timetable for moves towards the split and for preparing legislation at both federal and republic level to ensure a peaceful transition to two independent states . |
| 19 | Team briefing is our main vehicle for communicating information about the company and for obtaining feed-back through the organisation . |
| 20 | It will be the teacher 's judgement , made over time and through observing performance in different tasks , whether pupils can be said to have attained the abilities identified in a Statement of Attainment . |
| 21 | Finally and most significantly the closing sentence of the extract is well worth repeating : " It will be the teacher 's judgement , made over time and through observing performance in different tasks , whether pupils can be said to have attained . " |
| 22 | In such ways , the Führer image functioned , in integrating the potentially disintegrative forces within the Nazi Movement on a different plane among the Party ‘ faithful ’ than among the broad mass of ‘ non-organized ’ Germans , in mobilizing the boundless energy and misplaced idealism of the fanatics and activists through orientation towards long-term ‘ cosmic ’ and ‘ utopian ’ goals , and through offering legitimation for action undertaken against ideological and racial ‘ enemies of the State ’ . |
| 23 | The son of a former officer in the Dragoon Guards , Captain Donald Swan , who still trains in Tipperary , Charlie obviously had racing in his blood and after leaving school at 15 he had made up his mind to be a jockey . |
| 24 | Unluckily , neither the inspector nor myself spotted the stray soap and after slipping arse over tit he put his head through the water tank . |
| 25 | But that was what he was being paid for and after hearing Mobuto at the United Nations he was now more determined than ever to ensure his safety . |
| 26 | Here she hit wood for her second when it would have been less risky to try an iron , and after finding trouble in sand , ended up taking ‘ six ’ , the first time all week she had failed to make par on the hole . |
| 27 | With the slightest of limps I walked to reception to find Kenneth waiting , and after saying goodbye to Candy , we joined José , waiting behind the wheel of the hotel limo . |
| 28 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 29 | In the five years since its introduction , the plan has been accused of being geared toward extracting the optimum " harvest " from remaining forests and of lacking consideration towards forest peoples . |
| 30 | As before there were considerations of restricting overall investment to physical availability of materials , and of maintaining leverage over the nationalised industries as part of Keynesian demand management in the economy ( allowing greater expenditure when a slump threatened and reining it in when the economy appeared to be overheating ) . |