Example sentences of "[vb base] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed there are those who rely to such an extent on the time they gain for reading on trains that travelling by road is not an option . |
| 2 | She felt a prickle of resentment as she said , ‘ I suppose you mean for washing … ironing … cooking … sleeping , of course . |
| 3 | He got together with Clyde Walcott , a happy refereeing choice for three Tests in England this summer between England and Pakistan , and they ruled that the rule called for 90 overs to be bowled every day , and the allowance for wickets would only be taken into account for fining purposes when each side 's overall rate was calculated at the end of the game . |
| 4 | One of the reasons Mr Houghton and his managers cite for staying in the pots-and-pans business sounds pretty lame : namely that the business was handicapped in the 1980s first by a recession at the start of the decade and then later by a strong dollar and so could now recover . |
| 5 | Reaffirming the 1990 decision , which found Koons guilty of pirating the original photograph , the appeals court criticised Koons and Sonnabend for assuming that their position in the art business and the high price of the works would shield them from any legal action . |
| 6 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 7 | None of the solo piano music is here ( see below for that ) , but one of the ballets , Les Aventures de Mercure ( usually better known simply as ‘ Mercure ’ ) along with pieces such as Geneviève de Brabant and the curious Le Piège de Médusa make for absorbing and very entertaining listening . |
| 8 | Another group who will lose out will be those on low incomes who are ineligible for income support but qualify for housing benefit . |
| 9 | I thought I might have problems here , because the inside mitre on the four outer glazing bars created a slight undercut for assembling the curved outer members in the horizontal plane , but I found that by locating the curved members on the bottom rail first , then swinging the tops in on a slight curve , they just clicked into place nicely . |
| 10 | She has slept in her clothes as usual , so she reaches at once for her birch-bark pail ( podoinik ) with its removable lid and spout for pouring out the milk once she has returned from milking her cow , or two cows if she is rich . |
| 11 | Covering a cake with marzipan gives a smooth , even base for icing as well as added flavour interest . |
| 12 | In return the prosecuting authorities withdrew their demand that he appear for questioning in person and chose to issue a summary indictment against him , on Sept. 28 , which dispensed with the need for a trial and involved a maximum fine of only 200,000 yen . |
| 13 | Anyone could be forgive for thinking the Happy Holiday Hotel was a madhouse , with its bizarre collection of staff and its temperamental manager , George . |
| 14 | There is no difference in principle between what we propose for finding out about single people and what is proposed in the so-called Bill put forward by the hon. Member for Sheffield , Brightside ( Mr. Blunkett ) , in which he would need to identify pensioners , pensioner couples and people on low incomes . |
| 15 | Analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) and Student 's two tailed t test were applied for comparing differences between groups in continuous variables , and the Mann-Whitney U test for comparing medians . |
| 16 | There is also a WITHIN command for limiting the search area to within a specified number of words of another specified keyword . |
| 17 | The market return minus the risk-free return is the risk premium that investors expect for investing in the market portfolio . |
| 18 | This windows program for displaying horoscopes is one of the best I have seen . |
| 19 | But either way we should have been consistent and we apologise for confusing at least one of you . |
| 20 | Athelstan could n't leave his parish and go into the city , but he wished he could speak to the coroner , apologise for leaving him so abruptly the night before last . |
| 21 | I apologise for taking up the time of the House . |
| 22 | Instead , having been assured that Rick no longer had any violent feelings towards her , she earnestly pleaded that she had long been awaiting an opportunity to return it in person and apologise for causing so much distress . |
| 23 | Even if those figures are reduced by the two million each year that leaves a very large financial mountain to climb in the years ahead and I apologise for beginning with that gloomy prognosis but it does get better , thanks to our proposals . |
| 24 | Never apologise for writing and asking for your money . |
| 25 | As the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) said earlier — I apologise for referring to him when he is not in his place — there are 7 million single-person households in this country . |
| 26 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |
| 27 | Dec 10 1988 Pick yourself up , gentle reader — we apologise for knocking you sideways with this psychedelic carnival of visuals and ideas . |
| 28 | I apologise for interrupting him . |
| 29 | Thank you for your letter of 19 May and I apologise for having taken so long to reply . |
| 30 | We apologise for having used old fashioned terminology in misnaming Enterococcus faecalis as Streptococcus faecalis , but the apparent redesignation of the organism as Gram negative was not intentional and arose because of the eradication of one too many ‘ organisms ’ from the text , which should read : ‘ Important indications for this category include infections due to Gram negative organisms ; organisms , such as Enterococcus faecalis , causing infective endocarditis ; osteomyelitis ; and infections of vascular grafts . ’ |