Example sentences of "for giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to express my sincerest thanks to ‘ all those taking part ’ , and for giving me their time . |
| 2 | This peculiar action is responsible for giving the kick its unique feature , that is the ability to generate tremendous power from a very short action . |
| 3 | Speaking as the operation began , Mr Barnett thanked the person who gave permission for the donation : ‘ I know that Aisling , even if she does not survive , would want me to express my eternal gratitude to them for giving her the chance to live . ’ |
| 4 | Daphne Parish , a British nurse , has been held incommunicado since last month for giving information on casualties caused by an explosion at an Iraqi missile plant in August . |
| 5 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 6 | Laing rejects the view held by some people that managers from major corporations are unsuitable for giving advice to small firms because they live in two different worlds . |
| 7 | Having been criticised for giving no information , BR now gives it all the time with endless repetition , except when you really want it . |
| 8 | With good cause did Kine Weekly subsequently hail the film for giving ‘ promise of a genuine reaction against the deeply-rooted Wardour Street superstition that America will only buy pictures similar to her own . ’ |
| 9 | If Guardian members receive an average £520 for giving the nod to a plan to allow their society to remain a mutual — and to continue operating much as it has since the turn of the century — what price a vote to convert ? |
| 10 | THE Governor of Hong Kong , Sir David Wilson , is likely to make a last-ditch attempt to influence the Government 's package for giving the right of abode to the colony 's British passport holders when he arrives in London on Tuesday . |
| 11 | There is growing support for giving the European Parliament greater powers as part of an overhaul of all the community 's decision-making institutions . |
| 12 | WC apps : 2 Mike Smith , the former manager of Wales and Egypt , takes a lot of credit for giving the Egyptians the impetus to reach the finals for the first time . |
| 13 | ‘ What excuse , ’ he asked Mrs Thatcher , ‘ have you got for giving instructions that in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What excuse has she got for giving instructions that , in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ? |
| 15 | Abdul Shamji , chairman of the Gomba Group of Companies , yesterday lost his appeal against a 15-month jail sentence for giving perjured evidence about his personal fortune . |
| 16 | The provision sometimes inserted in a settlement for giving remuneration to a professional man who is one of the trustees is open to considerable objection since it may give him an interest in incurring expense , and will , in any case , tend to make the other trustees leave the management mainly in his hands . |
| 17 | He felt a certain gratitude to Eleanor for giving him this idea . |
| 18 | So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times : |
| 19 | so they have been very useful for giving extra pressure on the farm 's subsoiler and home-made 3.6m ( 12ft ) pasture aerator . |
| 20 | It is not called burning bush for nothing : I am tempted by the reputation its seed pods have for giving off a halo of oil vapour on still summer 's evenings . |
| 21 | The Admonitio Generalis was a programme for giving the clergy social power . |
| 22 | ‘ And thanks to you for giving Gareth such a good day yesterday . ’ |
| 23 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 24 | These Attachment Courts were also responsible for preventing illegal enclosures , and for giving landowners leave to cut timber in their own woods : thousands of acres of woodland in Essex were cleared during the eighteenth century by their leave , and with the licence of the Chief Justice of the Forest . |
| 25 | And he hates me for giving in to them , and for seeing how he 's shrunk . |
| 26 | It is likely to return to around 2 per cent : the price a Labour Britain will have to pay for giving priority to public spending rises unrelated to economic recovery . |
| 27 | One of the main arguments for giving GPs and hospitals freer rein is that they will pioneer the innovations that lead to swifter change . |
| 28 | SIR — In your report on Mike Tyson being in trouble for giving autographs in prison ( April 1 ) , Charles Laurence said that the boxer 's reply was : ‘ Yeah , that 's what I always do . ’ |
| 29 | Thank you for giving me an opportunity for the future . |
| 30 | There is , however , an irrefutable case for giving a greater degree of protection to fishermen resident in the Hebrides and the North of Scotland generally . |