Example sentences of "[v-ing] [that] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He begins by summarising that for the obvious reasons of inaccessibility and defences , the peoples who reside among mountains are the last to be conquered : he progresses to consider similarly-caused impediments to civilisation : he deduces the part remoteness plays in the preservation of ancient languages . |
| 2 | A ‘ hard case ’ — and I am not disputing that for the Bland parents it is indeed a very hard case — has been found which can , and I believe will , be skilfully exploited to justify the ‘ dignified ’ removal of a subtly-expanding range of people who will be deemed to be living lives which are below some ‘ expert 's ’ criterion of an acceptable standard . |
| 3 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 4 | These findings are also in line with figures produced by the Justices ' Clerks ' Society ( 1992 ) which we cited earlier , suggesting that for a given range of offence types , Crown Courts are very much more likely to resort to custody than magistrates courts , and to do so for longer . |
| 5 | This band had such an enormous impact on the rock world in the late '60s , and it was only some years later that I fully appreciated my own debt , realising that for a ( heavy ) rock band , Zep often had an underlying funkiness , due in large part to the style of J.P.J. which allowed for some very subtle and interesting grooves . |
| 6 | Then , realising that for a supposedly experienced sailor her enthusiasm was a little over the top , she added quickly and with complete honesty , ‘ I 've never sailed a boat like Seawitch before . |
| 7 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 8 | And it 's worth remembering that for very many children , for many years , their teachers are the only readers of the bulk of their work . ’ |
| 9 | A similar state of affairs had existed only at the very dawn of coinage when , in a number of areas including Asia Minor or Athens , a variety of personal designs had appeared , perhaps implying that for a short time after its inception coinage was sometimes produced on the authority of prominent individuals rather than of the state . |
| 10 | The driver wound down his window and cursed him , adding that for two pins he 'd tell the police . |
| 11 | Assuming that dl → 0 and noting that for a closed contour the line integral of the electric field vanishes we get |
| 12 | Mr Foley identified uncertainty as the greatest obstacle to company expansion , noting that for many firms continued rationalisation may be the best policy . |
| 13 | It is worth noting that for each price there is a rate of return consistent with it , or conversely for every rate of return there is a price consistent with it . |
| 14 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 15 | It was emphasising that for many people hospital residence is inappropriate and they are simply living there because there is nowhere else for them . |
| 16 | That must be extremely dubious , considering that for a number of years the payments were made under protest . |
| 17 | It is little surprise that they are saying that for the time being they will give Mrs Cresson the ‘ benefit of the doubt ’ . |
| 18 | Masha nodded , saying that for the first time since Geneva she could feel the attraction of Communism . |
| 19 | Mind you , they 've been saying that for years , and the C64 is still the second biggest leisure-software market in Europe ( and the biggest market for budget software ! ) . |
| 20 | I weighed in by saying that for some reason it no longer appeared in the Radcliffe Camera , as I gathered the library had ceased to subscribe to it . |
| 21 | Publishing exam results is fine — We have been saying that for three years , but as the Secretary of State managed to point out in his contorted evidence to the teachers ' pay review body , exam results alone provide only an elementary indication of the effectiveness of a school . |
| 22 | ‘ What ? ’ she gasped , so shocked at what he was saying that for a moment she could n't do anything other than stare at him with her mouth open . |
| 23 | In the distance a squad limbers up for physical training ; they wear training shoes rather than boots , indicating that for them training is in its earliest stages . |
| 24 | The South Africans have threatened to kill the guerrillas who do not surrender , while insisting that for their part they have scrupulously observed the agreements . |
| 25 | Meanwhile Macmillan and Eden ( plus many ministers and much of the popular press ) were insisting that for Britain it was a matter both of survival and of honour , a lethal compound . |
| 26 | The thought of Montaine was so arresting that for a moment he could not speak . |
| 27 | Assuming that for most people a job which requires a high level of effort ( or long hours ) is less preferable than one requiring less effort , and that more pay is preferable to less pay , then people will make a trade-off , if they are allowed , between the effort they exert and the pay they are awarded . |
| 28 | This follows from ( 5.47 ) as recognizing that for a perpetual bond rm = rc ( see ( 5.5 ) and ( 5.7 ) ) . |
| 29 | Delaney shook his head , knowing that for Silk nothing alive meant nothing to kill . |
| 30 | He said ‘ The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that for every step I take and every pound donated we are one step nearer to finding a cure . ’ |