Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [noun sg] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although police remove the illegally-parked cars almost as fast as they are abandoned , the local body responsible for administering parking is insisting that someone pay the hefty excess charges incurred by the prolonged presence of other cars in legal spaces . |
| 2 | That is because AT&T 's best bet for maintaining growth is to divide its manufacturing businesses from its telephone arm , not to buy more of them . |
| 3 | He prepared fillet of beef , explaining what gives meat its colour , what makes meat tough , and totally destroying the recipe book idea that time for cooking meat is determined by weight . |
| 4 | The last kind of strategy for denying responsibility is to give it away to someone else . |
| 5 | The only reason for defining abuse is to ensure that incidents are identified and reduced by good professional and managerial practice . |
| 6 | In short , therefore , the best advice for combating jet-lag is to adopt a new routine in accord with your new time zone , to strengthen all possible time-cues , and so to reset the body clock as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | The environment for teaching Art is enriched or otherwise by the personality of the staff doing the teaching and the way in which they develop their environment . |
| 8 | The thinking programme which I developed ( the CoRT programme ) which is now the most widely used in the world for teaching thinking is designed to avoid confusion through the use of specific attention tools . |
| 9 | A third reason why dieting makes you fat is because fat is less metabolically active than muscle … the one sure way to slow the body down and so create the conditions for getting fat is to go on a diet |
| 10 | 4.5 It is the responsibility of each workplace manager to ensure a local system for summoning support is devised and to ensure that all staff are given information relating to any future arrangements as well as these Guidelines . |
| 11 | In practice the best reason for asking advice is to enlist the interest of those who might eventually be responsible for implementing the decision . |
| 12 | A more sober evaluation by the Latin American Left of the prospects for achieving revolution is reinforced by the recognition that the Soviet Union is not going to do what it did for Cuba for any other Latin American country . |