Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a glowing prospectus about using Winter Marsh for oyster farming , and a Declaration of Intent by a group called Varsov International to put up £5 million in cash for a half share in yet another company called Ingard Oyster Farms . |
| 2 | ICI has been branded a Scrooge after cancelling Christmas parties for pensioners . |
| 3 | The scanners should be used more for capturing line drawings for input to our large-scale DTP set-up . |
| 4 | However , although the results of validity generalisation studies are impressive and constitute a strong argument in favour of using ability tests for personnel selection , it has yet to be seen to what extent its conclusions will be taken up by practitioners in the field . |
| 5 | The rival method of using metal rollers for milling corn had been tried as early as the sixteenth century but was generally only adopted for malt-milling until , in 1834 , a Swiss engineer substituted rollers for the original stones in the reconstruction of an existing mill . |
| 6 | Tunnard ( 1989 ) makes some excellent suggestions about ways this can be achieved , including : improving ways of providing emergency protection for children at times of crisis by drawing upon the support of the extended family and local community ; involving parents in decision making , providing parents ' representatives and encouraging the development of local support groups ; improving what happens after separation by offering children and families choices about what can be done , and ensuring contact is promoted and maintained ; dealing with sexual abuse cases in ways that help non-abusing parents to avoid taking a defensive position and that give them the resources and support they need to be able to protect their children . |
| 7 | This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees . |
| 8 | Dowling himself was an irregular , a member of the Old Catholic Church , a splinter group that did not recognize the supremacy of Rome ; he was drawn into the cause as a result of saying house Masses for expatriate Nicaraguans in San Francisco . |
| 9 | There was therefore no further step for the justices to take in the process of committing Mr. Bell for trial or in the conduct of his trial . |
| 10 | It may perhaps have been valid in the past to dichotomize theoretical stances into endogenous ( formulated in terms of what is natural to humans ) and exogenous ( formulated in terms of sociocultural factors ) ( Heelas 1983 ) ; but many biologists today think that there is a built-in capacity for change through learning capable of giving directive impulses for change . |
| 11 | The job of supervising health policy for Scotland 's largest heath authority has not been without its difficulties . |
| 12 | Their visits were threatening and long , and eventually the agency gave up hope of substituting mulberry trees for opium . |
| 13 | The Britannia leased asset management system presents the results of different methods of calculating interest repayments for finance leases , providing users with the information needed to evaluate the differing effects on their organisation 's tax bill . |
| 14 | When the franchise reform of 1907 virtually ruled out the possibility of exploiting Duma elections for propaganda purposes among the peasantry the party boycotted both the Third and Fourth Dumas . |
| 15 | However , the simple method of adapting plastic tubing for joints was woefully inadequate where 3 or 4 rods converged . |
| 16 | Tyre depot worker tells of making drugs trip for boss |
| 17 | For instance , the CIA at one stage ran a brothel in Paris in conjunction with the French intelligence organisation , SDECE , with the purpose of obtaining blackmail material for use against eastern block diplomats and similar people . |
| 18 | GERHARD Berger escaped unhurt from a high-speed crash today as Alain Prost completed the formalities of claiming pole position for Sunday 's Italian Grand Prix . |
| 19 | It was the culmination of two years of mounting media attention for Beattie . |
| 20 | ( These types of calculation arise in project appraisal in developing countries introduced in chapter 6 , where the question is the intra-temporal equity one of weighing income/consumption gains for individuals at different points in the income distribution . ) |
| 21 | He was pleased with the result and wanted to use it for something for himself and he adapted it for designing colour patterns for Sandra to knit on her machine . |
| 22 | No 51 includes details for the latest research finding , new projects , the latest SCRE publications ( Class , Race and Gender in Schools and the Action Against Bullying support pack for schools ) AND a focus article on using cartoons in teaching . |
| 23 | one thing you 've got to watch out for apar I go I remember I , I was thinking about getting colour monitors for work and I read lots of articles about them |
| 24 | On July 26 Erich Mielke , 82 , the former Minister for State Security , was arrested and charged with preparing internment camps for dissidents and harbouring terrorists [ see below ] . |
| 25 | Neither does it excuse the fact that SSDs have been woefully slow in producing practice guidance for staff . |
| 26 | The planes from Brize will join others over Waddington and the Wash , before circling East Anglia for run in to RAF Marham in Norfolk . |
| 27 | During World War I she became involved in organizing war work for women , and after the war became a leading promoter of professional employment for women , a founder of the Women 's Employment Federation , and first chairman ( 1930–9 ) of the Cambridge University women 's employment board . |
| 28 | But it might have assisted in suggesting search areas for victims of the Lockerbie air crash and , at a very different scale , in helping firemen navigate their way around King 's Cross underground rail station . |
| 29 | After a 3 hour hearing Oliffe was jailed for six months , as well as banned from keeping farm animals for life . |
| 30 | In recent years the Dalai Lama , the acknowledged spiritual leader of an estimated 100,000 Tibetan exiles , had been active in lobbying world leaders for negotiations on Tibetan independence , adopting a higher diplomatic profile which was recognized in his receipt of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize . |