Example sentences of "[that] [noun] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Northern Echo was told that solicitors acting for the Grangetown families were now considering an injunction to put before a judge obliging British Steel and ICI to hand over precise information on the contents of their chimney emissions . |
| 2 | Foreign Minister Enrique Silva Cimma stated , however , that proposals calling for a sea outlet for Bolivia , which became land-locked following defeat by Chile in the War of the Pacific ( 1879-83 ) , were not supported by the Chilean government or by most of the population . |
| 3 | It would follow that journalists writing for American publications have considerably more latitude in criticising public figures so long as their articles are not reprinted in Britain . |
| 4 | Police and motoring organisations warned that drivers heading for the capital are certain to face lengthy delays as thousands of extra people take to the roads . |
| 5 | The accounting policy note on associated undertakings goes on to state that the directors believe that equity accounting for associated undertakings would not give a true and fair view of the group 's income . |
| 6 | The government admitted that companies bidding for franchises after the privatisation of British Rail might be allowed to concrete over the tracks and run buses instead . |
| 7 | For example , women in the Labour Party made sure that resolutions asking for the provision of birth control information via local authority clinics came before the Party 's Annual Conference in 1925 , 1926 and 1927 . |
| 8 | The only other argument that I have been able to find in support of tonight 's regulations is where the DSS states that the use of regulation 72 puts ’ an over-emphasis on the Department 's welfare role and overlooks the fact that persons acting for the claimant could have made inquiries on the claimant 's behalf . ’ |
| 9 | A " temporary services business " , which specifies that persons working for it are under its " direction , supervision and control " , is not an " employment business " in the terms of the Employment Agencies Act and is not subject to the regulations governing the operation of such businesses which the Act lays down . |
| 10 | The London Weather Centre said that people travelling for the holiday weekend will face more rain tomorrow and Sunday . |
| 11 | Sunrise Radio bosses revealed that staff working for their new Leicester-based Midlands service have received chilling death threats in the middle of the night from a mystery caller . |
| 12 | Appropriate measures should be taken to ensure that staff working for the vendors are not involved in work performed for the purchaser or vice versa . |
| 13 | It relies for new blood on people aggrieved by the state , and the move towards gloves-off repression that army backing for the coup represents will boost recruits . |
| 14 | Small wonder that lawyers acting for the depositors describe their prospects as ‘ fair ’ . |
| 15 | It was reported on Nov. 26 that lawyers acting for the convicted Nazi war criminal , Klaus Barbie , were seeking his release on humanitarian grounds , claiming that he was suffering from cancer [ for Barbie 's 1987 trial see p. 35417 ] . |
| 16 | Is n't it time that members standing for C E C elections were given the same equality with Regional Secretaries , who as we all know , all year round , in all regions , when a leaflet or a booklet goes out to members , in most of them there is a photograph of the Regional Secretary . |
| 17 | It was contended that purchasers looking for a good-quality carpet would go to a conventional carpet shop and not to a carpet superstore which they considered was more applicable to the lower end of the market . |
| 18 | Never mind that numbers waiting for less than a year have risen , bringing the total number on waiting lists to almost a million — a new record high . |
| 19 | I have no evidence to support it , but I suspect that Ministers looking for private schools for their children will not take as a key selling point class sizes of more than 35 or 40 . |