Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each neighbourhood was assigned a planner who was responsible for notifying neighbourhood residents of planning decisions which were likely to affect them and for channelling requests for action through the appropriate city departments . |
| 2 | CCG 's first contract back in 1981 was for catering services for Shell on board the Stadrill . |
| 3 | A wealthy Texan chicken magnate , Lonnie ‘ Bo ’ Pilgrim , walked on to the floor of the state Senate and handed $10,000 cheques to several legislators during the debate on a bill about compensating workers for job injuries . |
| 4 | After pledging £20,000 for wheelchair races , the region 's support increased to £95,000 after a substantial shortfall in the commercial sponsorship which now appears certain to be repeated this year unless additional major supporters can be found . |
| 5 | The profits were struck after charging £15m for rationalisation and reorganisation . |
| 6 | It calculates this by class of business on the basis of a separate carry-forward of deferred acquisition expenses after making allowance for investment income . |
| 7 | What was so private about writing letters for business people , l who ought to have clerks for doing it ? |
| 8 | ‘ The great thing about writing sport for Punch is that people ca n't say it 's not as funny as it used to be , because nobody 's done it before , ’ he said . |
| 9 | But surely there is a whole order of difference between inserting grommets for glue ear ( a much criticised treatment ) and injecting people with extracts of gas and petrol fumes ? |
| 10 | An especially blatant case is the British Psycho-Analytical Society 's insistence that homosexuality constitutes grounds for refusing candidates for training . |
| 11 | Erm and the principle of para one of P P G one para five of P P G one applies that that erm there 's no good reason for turning for for refusing applications for development in the countryside . |
| 12 | In the ensuing days over 150 speculators were publicly named , and at least one bank president was dismissed and others warned for approving loans for use by land speculators . |
| 13 | There are right and wrong ways of handling microphones for speech recording . |
| 14 | Already there is talk of using Macintoshes for packaging design , 35mm slide and OHP production and a host of other graphics oriented functions . |
| 15 | An important point here is that existing school staff may have little experience of using microcomputers for information retrieval and the school librarian needs to impress the staff by her/his ability in using the microcomputer . |
| 16 | However , much less well developed has been the nature of using information for decision-making . |
| 17 | This is a useful means of gathering evidence for assessment purposes . |
| 18 | The government remains committed to Green Belt protection , conservation of agricultural land etc. but states that ‘ there is , therefore always a presumption in favour of allowing applications for development having regard to all material considerations , unless that development would cause demonstrable harm to interests of acknowledged importance ’ . |
| 19 | A later circular ( 14/85 ) on Development and Employment stressed that there is always ‘ a presumption in favour of allowing applications for development , having regard to all material considerations , unless that development would cause demonstrable harm to interests of acknowledged importance ’ . |
| 20 | Finally , in tune with the government 's general philosophy , ‘ there is always a presumption in favour of allowing applications for development , having regard to all material considerations , unless that development would cause demonstrable harm to interests of acknowledged importance ’ . |
| 21 | Dalton succeeded Silkin as Minister in February 1950 and initiated another method of organizing arrangements for overspill from the big cities , without quite the extravagant implications of new corporations which Silkin 's schemes had required . |
| 22 | They have pointed out that the existence of other remedies for wives in this situation is no reason for disentitling a wife to the protection of the criminal law and that the possibility of bringing charges for assault or wounding is an inadequate substitute for a rape prosecution which focuses upon the denial of another 's sexual autonomy and integrity . |
| 23 | For primary schools the review is also more of a whole-school effort , is more thorough and more useful in terms of producing proposals for change than middle schools and secondary schools ( the least ) . |
| 24 | Secondly , we had the early misfortune of booking Emma for ski lessons with a French ski school whose woman teacher was an ogress . |
| 25 | Establishments must also follow the Voluntary Code of Booking Practice for Tourist Accommodation . |
| 26 | The ability of the modem to translate signals makes the information services market we have today a possibility … information publishers must now prepare for a new challenge and for a similar degree of networking capacity for video and other multimedia as they currently experience for data … ’ |
| 27 | It should differentiate between indisputable fact , firm opinion , and speculation included for guidance or prognosis ; and finally , it should include a statement of rebuilding costs for insurance purposes . |
| 28 | In October , an increase in the number of landing points for Torch led to Roger Courtney 's brother coming to assist with the training of the beach reconnaissance canoeists . |
| 29 | One reason for Germany 's popularity has been its cumbersome process of checking claims for asylum . |
| 30 | Chastity is the virtue either of keeping sex for marriage or of abstaining from sex altogether . |