Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd spend hours cooking meals for Gary , then eat them before he got home so I 'd have to cook more . |
| 2 | Despite the reduction of inflation to 12.9 per cent ( compared with a 1989 target of 15 per cent ) and a growth rate in 1989 which was expected narrowly to exceed population growth , the economy 's structure remained largely unchanged , particularly in agriculture , with a prominent division between estates producing commodities for export , and a peasant sector where successful farmers were in a tiny minority . |
| 3 | UFC has published a document setting out how the peer review process will work , with 50 panels of 8–10 experts producing ratings for activities across 72 subjects . |
| 4 | Governor Rafael Hernández Colón , in presenting on Feb. 20 , 1990 , his state of the Commonwealth address and the budget for the fiscal year 1990-91 , announced the sale of the state-owned telephone company to finance two trust funds providing money for education and for development . |
| 5 | However Sparcstation clients wo n't — at least not initially — be able to access servers running NetWare for Sparc . |
| 6 | However , SparcStation clients wo n't — at least not initially — be able to access servers running NetWare for Sparc . |
| 7 | LAN Manager for Workgroups supports personal computer clients running Windows for Workgroups — Microsoft 's peer-to-peer connectivity version of Windows . |
| 8 | It is an uncompromising fortress-like church , old , high , square with no elaboration of aisle or transept , bare , which chimed with Frederica 's northern sense of fitness , and yet , in its dark , after the bright sun , haunted by things her blood rejected — racks of fragile spiked flames of votive candles , elaborate china and metal plaques and pictures offering thanks for favours obtained , the smell of old wax and lingering incense muffling the smell of stone . |
| 9 | I also spent about three months vetting requests for enquiries . |
| 10 | Eight prisoners serving sentences for offences ranging from drug trafficking to armed robbery are taking part in a conference on violence in society . |
| 11 | Bureaucratic procedures were to be streamlined , so that applications from companies seeking licences for exploration would be decided within a three-month period . |
| 12 | Insolvency — Transaction at undervalue — Service out of jurisdiction — Director transferring company 's money to bank in Jersey — Bank having no place of business in England — Company 's administrators seeking order for recovery of money from bank — Whether jurisdiction to make order against foreign bank — Insolvency Act 1986 ( c. 45 ) , s. 238 — Insolvency Rules 1986 ( S.I . |
| 13 | Outlook , page 31 World Markets New York : Programme buying and a rush of panicky short-covering saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average finish at a record 2,754.56 , up 40.84 Tokyo : A flood of sell orders from investment trusts redeeming funds for clients brought a sharp fall in the Nikkei average , down 256.6 to 35,366.37 . |
| 14 | Though schools could reclaim VAT , universities and students could not , nor could parents buying books for children . |
| 15 | Taylor opposed the ECOMOG intervention , apparently regarding its arrival as intervention on the side of Doe just when the latter was on the brink of defeat , and threatened reprisals against nationals of the countries providing troops for ECOMOG . |
| 16 | Jon Shaw 's probing passes providing chances for Chris Maskery and Laxon , but Yorkshire , aided by some useful saves by Peter Clark , held on . |
| 17 | Property group Brixton Estates proved an exception to the rule that companies asking shareholders for cash are marked down . |
| 18 | Property group Brixton Estates defied the usual course of companies asking shareholders for cash . |
| 19 | Invitations to royal garden parties are despatched each year to worthies across the land who have spent their lives raising money for charity or supervising the work of the council sewers and drains committee . |
| 20 | Although this hunt met with a certain amount of success , British SAS troops having been reported as active behind Iraqi lines pinpointing targets for US F-15 strike aircraft , its results were not all positive . |
| 21 | ( b ) In English law the choice of law rules governing claims for restitution are influenced by the claim being connected with a contract , having regard to the English conflict of laws rule that the proper law of the obligation to restore a benefit , if the obligation arises in connection with a contract , is the proper law of the contract : Dicey & Morris , The Conflict of Laws , 11th ed. ( 1987 ) , p. 1350 , r. 203. ( c ) Quasi-contractual claims , at least where there is a contract involved , should probably fall per se under article 5(1) : see the opinion of the editors of Dicey & Morris , at p. 341 , to this effect , and the decision of the Scottish courts that a statutory claim to contribution falls within the article in Engdiv Ltd. v. G. Percy Trentham Ltd. , 1990 S.L.T. 617 , 621. ( d ) In the case of a claim for the return of moneys paid under an ineffective contract , there is no artificiality in deducing an implied promise to pay , even though the old theory that restitution was based on the concept of such an implied promise is now largely discredited . |
| 22 | There were no relevant standing rules governing applications for declarations and injunctions before the enactment of rule 3(7) because before then these remedies could not be applied for under Order 53 , but only in private actions . |
| 23 | If a major feature of the Co-operative Commonwealth was to be the ownership and control by the workforce of the particular enterprise employing them , if , in other words , it was to comprehend authentic industrial democracy , then the abrogation in 1875 of the workers ' rights and privileges of the workers employed in factories producing goods for sale in co-operative retail stores was a misdirection of the Movement . |
| 24 | A few readers may remember that I had long ago arranged to spend two days drawing cartoons for children in the Navan shopping centre . |
| 25 | In a statement on Sept. 27 the Iranian News Agency ( IRNA ) said that the decision to renew diplomatic relations with the UK was based on Iran 's acceptance of " remarks by British officials announcing respect for Islam , Moslem values and sanctities " . |
| 26 | ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen . |
| 27 | Applicants seeking credits for areas of study , for Sections of the certificate level areas C1 or C2 , or for elements from within an area of study at diploma level must submit their application to the HCIMA and should have received a favourable decision prior to enrolment on a programme or area of study . |
| 28 | After two years designing murals for Wimpey , the construction company , he took a teaching post that enticed him back into the photography world , and led to a post-graduate degree at the Royal College . |
| 29 | The chlorine is picked up as aerosols droplets containing salt for example from breaking waves taken up by the atmosphere , carried over the land , rained down again , gets into the rivers and ends up back in the sea . |
| 30 | And the Pioneers were right to see in the dispossession by the consumer interest of the rights of the workers in the Manufacturing Society as a fundamental change of Co-operative purpose and as implying the acceptance of a much more limited expectation for it , but wrong not to recognise that that change , that limitation inhered in the idea of a dividend itself : for that , more than anything else , activated the potential conflict of interest created by the differing functions — that of workers making things for sale and that of consumers buying them to use . |