Example sentences of "and [v-ing] for [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With U.S. solo rates for C152s ranging from £19.40–£28.50 per hour , and allowing for higher unit overheads , this would seem to justify UK rates of , say , £41–£52 per hour ex-VAT , or £48–£61 per hour including VAT . |
| 2 | She looked across at him as if giving him a final appraisal and checking for further clues in his face , in his clothes . |
| 3 | Well Tony Primmer 's an Australian and has been riding at Eastbourne and we were looking at him prior to this erm sort of amalgamation that came in because erm with our friendship with Bob Dugard , and looking for younger riders , he was sort of earmarked to come here at some stage . |
| 4 | The project involves the re-analysis of existing data sets , using the new measure and testing for stronger relationships than originally found . |
| 5 | On Jan. 4 the UN Security Council passed a non-binding resolution deploring Israel 's treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories and calling for greater international protection for them . |
| 6 | Under pressure from Russian nationalists , however , Yeltsin had made increasingly overt statements in the weeks preceding his visit suggesting that the time was not right for any major alteration in the status of the disputed territory , and calling for greater Japanese flexibility on the issue of the sovereignty of the islands . |
| 7 | There should be story-telling and reading for older children as well as for the young . |
| 8 | In fact its function is to mobilize the body , to prepare us for action : to pump adrenalin into our blood for faster muscle movement , and quicken our heart-beat and breathing for greater stamina . |
| 9 | Gloucester are flying up country tonight … to Tyneside for tomorrow 's game against Newcastle Gosforth … the cherry and whites are unchanged … and hoping for better luck than last year when they lost against the geordies … |