Example sentences of "[v-ing] money for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got . |
| 2 | No longer were people in small communities sharing the necessities of life , but they were using money for everything . |
| 3 | Real interest in the tradition was actually waning ; during the 1820s great difficulty was experienced in procuring money for a bull and the last Christmas run occurred in 1831 . |
| 4 | If this sort of technology was introduced into commercial-sized refrigeration plants , they could be turned off during peak times and then switched back on during low demand periods , saving money for the companies that own them and using less energy . |
| 5 | If you 're anything like me , you 'll be hopeless at budgeting money for any length of time . |
| 6 | But until you 're really big you 've just got to realise that there are some things worth paying money for and some things that are n't . |
| 7 | Mahmoud , Owen knew , did not like paying money for information . |
| 8 | ‘ It is not just the diggers and baiters we want to catch , it is the people who are paying money for the badgers . |
| 9 | In securing money for the abbey , Edward was helped by his position as a baron of the Exchequer and keeper from 1248 of the Exchequer seal , one of the earliest known chancellors of the Exchequer . |
| 10 | My earliest memories of being abused are of going into a neighbour 's house when I was five or six and getting money for what he made me do . |
| 11 | She said they 're getting money for nothing ! |
| 12 | The helping friend provides mining money for men , as well as independence and sex for women . |
| 13 | If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence . |
| 14 | They generally co-operated with the administration to the extent of providing money for the latest schemes ; participation , of course , was another matter . |
| 15 | Sir James Reckitt was a great benefactor though , providing money for the library , tennis courts and bowling green . |
| 16 | The king seemed to regard Stratford 's conduct of government as tantamount to treachery , and the king 's supporters issued a statement , the Libellus Famosus , denouncing his conduct of government during the king 's absence and declaring that the delay in providing money for the army in Flanders had arisen from the fault , or the neglect , or even the malice of the archbishop . |
| 17 | Governor Rafael Hernández Colón , in presenting on Feb. 20 , 1990 , his state of the Commonwealth address and the budget for the fiscal year 1990-91 , announced the sale of the state-owned telephone company to finance two trust funds providing money for education and for development . |
| 18 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 19 | Dr James said he did not know if Tayside Health Board is to continue providing money for treatment . |
| 20 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 21 | It had been losing money for 3 years . |
| 22 | Had I spent a little more time with it I could have justified asking money for my very first attempt at using the Tascam 228 ! |
| 23 | This means that there is no longer any tax advantage in giving money for the benefit of individuals via a covenant . |
| 24 | I think the government giving money for the National Endowment for the Arts and then trying to decide what 's art and what is n't is a mistake . |
| 25 | WWF is giving money for conservation all the time in Northern Ireland , with much of the spending going into coastal projects , the theme of this year 's Walk for Wildlife campaign . |
| 26 | Chair , on the recommendations erm on item D , I 'm a bit unhappy about the use of the term ‘ natural ’ disasters , because I believe that many of the disasters that people in Oxford are actually giving money for are man made disasters , particularly matters of international economics and the unfair burden , erm unfair distribution of wealth which places a whole sector of the world in poverty , and I think , you know , you do get a magnificent response from people in Oxford to these charities , and we must be aware that there are a whole number of greater issues involved , and while I hear what you 're saying earlier on about you ca n't take on the problems of the whole world , I think when people are actually giving money to charities for example , like Oxfam , they are often unaware of these issues , and we do have a wider role in making the , joining with organisations like Oxfam in spreading public awareness on these issues . |
| 27 | At times he was reduced to publishing acrostics in newspapers begging money for his wife and children . |
| 28 | The most obvious examples of economic support between kin concerns giving and lending money for specified purposes . |
| 29 | A precedent for lending money for such a highway existed . |
| 30 | Mr Lightman claimed that if the jury which had awarded the £600,000 had known that Mrs Sutcliffe was not adverse to taking money for her story , the outcome could have been different . |