Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neale was re-elected captain for the 1991 season last November , already equalling the record for longest serving captain . |
| 2 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 3 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 4 | Forecasting the Demand for Higher Education |
| 5 | Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on . |
| 6 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 7 | In pursuing the campaign for family allowances ( initially intended to provide the mother with a wage as well as allowances for children ) , mainstream feminists of the inter-war years were picking up one of the major demands of labour women 's groups prior to World War I and consciously taking on board social issues of importance to working class women . |
| 8 | At the time of his controversial dismissal from Manchester United , the News Of The World revealed that a team of private detectives , hired by a group of businessmen closely linked to some of the club 's directors , had been pursuing The Doc for nearly two years . |
| 9 | Among particularly serious instances of pollution picked out in the report were the following : , Heavy use of pesticides polluting rivers across the crop growing areas of the Russian republic ; , Untreated industrial effluent from the Volga slowly killing off the marine life of the Caspian Sea ; , High levels of dioxin in mothers ' milk in Moscow ; , The continuing consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident , rendering much of the countryside of the Ukraine and Belorussia uncultivatable ; , Waste from aluminium factories in Uzbekistan , poisoning the land for miles around . |
| 10 | The plebiscitary acclamation which could always be mobilized by Hitler provided him with an unassailable base of popularity , and as such offered the regime legitimation both within Germany and in the eyes of foreign powers , allowing the scope for further mobilization and a gathering momentum of Nazi policy . |
| 11 | The High Court found that the General Commissioners had correctly concluded that the mezzanine platforms should be regarded as plant based on their findings of fact , but that they had erred in law in allowing the claims for capital allowance for the lighting . |
| 12 | 1825 " The Presses of this meeting , as being part owner of the Steam Boat , declines allowing the assessment for the Steam Boat to be charged for this year . |
| 13 | Belgium and Luxembourg on March 2 , 1990 , abolished the dual exchange rate used within their monetary union which pegged the Luxembourg-Belgian franc for current commercial transactions while allowing the rate for financial transactions to float freely . |
| 14 | These so-called ‘ displacement activities ’ which often involve grooming the body for a short time , seem to occur particularly in states of conflict between , say , attacking and escaping from another individual . |
| 15 | From the church came a dual impulse strengthening this morality : the prevailing teaching on sexual abstention outside of marriage under pain of mortal sin , and the rigorous life of a clergy pledged to chastity and preaching the need for an unmarried laity to practise the same degree and kind of circumspection in sexual matters which the clergy had been taught to impose upon themselves . |
| 16 | The 1985 Report on Social Attitudes found that the most highly valued method of taking personal action against an unjust law being considered was to write to the local MP and , although the importance of contacting the media for this purpose has increased , the 1986 report found ‘ a widespread and growing self confidence on the part of the electorate to try to bring influence to bear on Parliament ’ . |
| 17 | Besides this , we asked about contacting the police for help . |
| 18 | And they said we 're not naming the home for the elderly that will probably be closed . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm naming the squad for the game against Norway on Thursday and , as I 've already indicated , he will be included just as he was in Spain early this month . |
| 20 | Earlier yesterday , Inkatha and the Kwazulu black homeland government submitted a memorandum saying that negotiators should debate federalism , violence and other constitutional principles before naming the day for the country 's first all-race election . |
| 21 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 22 | This being so , it is essential for government to retain the confidence , and hence the co-operation , of the business sector by maintaining the conditions for its profitability . |
| 23 | The above plans for public spending are an integral part of the government 's medium-term financial strategy aimed at reducing inflation and maintaining the conditions for sustained growth , the creation of jobs and higher living standards . |
| 24 | A proactive stance is essential in terms of setting and maintaining the mood for change across the various agencies of justice . |
| 25 | She should now aim to be 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) below her starting weight on most days ; she should reduce sugar on cereal to just one teaspoon ; she should use less meat when making up meat meals like stews , using more vegetables instead ( this is as well , of course , as maintaining the goal for fat reduction from Week 1 ) ; she should have salted meat or salted fish only three times a week in total ( you will remember that salt goals last for two weeks each ) ; she should have one or two pieces of fresh fruit each day ( this is as well as the goal for Week 1 , having pulses with one meal each day ) ; she should have a brisk twenty-minute walk each day . |
| 26 | But we are determined to play our part in maintaining the momentum for closer co-operation to build a stronger European economy , to extend social justice , to preserve the environment , and to deepen our democracy . |
| 27 | Thus on the eve of the Labour Party Conference at Blackpool in May 1945 , which he hurried back from America to attend , Attlee called on Churchill at Downing Street and discussed with him the possibility of maintaining the coalition for a further period . |
| 28 | Maintaining the impetus for change is brought about by nothing less than dogged determination . |
| 29 | It 's maintaining the diet for longer and keeping the weight off which is the tricky part . |
| 30 | Sukarno regained importance as consensus figure : ‘ If it should ever turn out that Sjahrir is not maintaining the demand for 100 per cent Merdeka … then I have the right to dismiss him ’ , he told a wildly cheering crowd on 17 February 1946 . |