Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [adv] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not ready for rigging yet is it ? |
| 2 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 3 | The main proactive reason for expanding internationally is perceived economies of scale and positioning on an experience curve . |
| 4 | The only justification for staying here is to live for the most fundamental programme of change . |
| 5 | The climate for doing so is more favourable than for some years past . |
| 6 | However , as Figure 6.41 shows , the space for these uses has been won often by removing cars to off-street parking areas , yet the opportunity for doing so is strictly limited by the availability of existing breaks in the facades of the buildings . |
| 7 | The stated reason for doing so is that an increasing number of cardholders are paying their bill at the end of each month , pay nothing for the card , and are therefore being subsidised by those who do use the credit facility . |
| 8 | The tax and social security authorities are less likely to consider that the motive for doing so is avoidance . |
| 9 | Their penalty for doing so is frequent failure , for polar habitats are harsh and highly variable , unbuffered and unpredictable . |
| 10 | Even drinking in a public bar may be considered to be solitary if the principal reason for doing so is the consumption of alcohol rather than for specific social contact . |
| 11 | The existing system for doing so is there to be used , alternative systems are not . |
| 12 | The rationale for doing so is that consumption of capital assets is one of the costs of earning the revenues of the business and as such is paid from untaxed income under the tax authority 's rules . |
| 13 | The rationale for doing so is that consumption of capital assets is one of the costs of earning the revenues of the business and as such is paid from untaxed income under the tax authority 's rules . |
| 14 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 15 | As they go , one of their justifications for behaving dictatorially is starting to look strong . |
| 16 | Shouting at the two children talking when they should n't during assembly rather than praising the other two hundred for sitting quietly is typical of a pre-occupation with failure . |