Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was secretary to Lady Margaret Hall from 1880 to 1914 and , as lady secretary to the AEW ( 1883–94 ) , was responsible for organizing tuition for women students and for supervising those not attached to a hall , who lived at home or with ‘ hostesses ’ in the city . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | CCG 's first contract back in 1981 was for catering services for Shell on board the Stadrill . |
| 4 | He had nine boilers of 200 gallons each for cooking food for cattle and horses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | FURIOUS homebuyers are set to sue the builder of their luxury estate after paying £100,000 for houses branded no better than SANDCASTLES . |
| 8 | His death , in such strange circumstances , comes soon after beginning work for Brian Harley who , after so little success over the last few years , has suddenly come good . |
| 9 | Hampshire were criticised by police after asking applicants for Benson & Hedges Cup final tickets to send blank cheques through the post . |
| 10 | The profits were struck after charging £15m for rationalisation and reorganisation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Minister for Information , Broadcasting and Tourism , Mr Sikota Wina , after rejecting calls for TVZ to be suspended , made the following remark , which is significant as a statement of government policy on the television service : |
| 13 | What was so private about writing letters for business people , l who ought to have clerks for doing it ? |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Process models provide a mechanism for defining lifecycles for objects within LIFESPAN . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | An especially blatant case is the British Psycho-Analytical Society 's insistence that homosexuality constitutes grounds for refusing candidates for training . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Along with seven other former senior members of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange , Li still faced additional similar corruption charges involving the acceptance of bribes for approving listings for Hong Kong companies on the exchange . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There are right and wrong ways of handling microphones for speech recording . |
| 22 | Now , consistent with her previous practice of using Creole for comments in Creole on the other players , she begins to describe the players ' code words in turn — " ( you ) slap down , he says " pin " , he slaps down , he says " needle " , he slaps down he — " . |
| 23 | Already there is talk of using Macintoshes for packaging design , 35mm slide and OHP production and a host of other graphics oriented functions . |
| 24 | I discuss later in this chapter ways of using pauses for students to repeat , answer questions or use a worksheet . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , much less well developed has been the nature of using information for decision-making . |
| 27 | The Garden had no computer communication links , so that the Library could not access on-line bibliographic databases to carry out literature searches for staff , and there was no possibility of using computers for data exchange between institutions . |
| 28 | Arctic skuas feed their young on the fish which they rob from the terns , and have become so specialised that they have almost lost the capability of catching food for themselves . |
| 29 | This is a useful means of gathering evidence for assessment purposes . |
| 30 | She did n't know if Betty knew how long Beuno had been there , so endeavoured to give the impression that she could babble away on the topic of cooking game for hours at a time . |