Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it is because they are saving their best for England . |
| 2 | The rest of the battalion is ordered to eat before parades — for if a man faints and he has missed breakfast , he can be charged with rendering himself unfit for duty . |
| 3 | The second buyers compounded the goods into food for birds and the third buyers bought the compound and fed it to poultry which died because , unknown to anyone at the time of supply , the compound included minute traces of poison rendering it unfit for poultry . |
| 4 | But because they have to leave by 10pm , all they have time for are the basic tasks , such as cooking dinner , feeding Elaine , taking off her make-up and getting her ready for bed . |
| 5 | ‘ I was just getting her ready for bed , it being so late and all , ’ he said without turning a hair . |
| 6 | Vets , like all those involved in promoting responsible ownership , want to encourage owners to have their pets neutered and , while many charities talk about trying to set up discount neutering schemes , vets have been running their own for years . |
| 7 | Erm , quite how we arrange cos this , as Margaret says there 's a lot of business to get through on occasions , but er , this , this meeting seems to had a lot , but , you know , er whether we could alternate er a business meeting with a , a , a speaker so I thought functional meeting every two months and a speaker attending er , er the other month , erm , I 'm really sussing it open for ideas , what , what do other people feel and |
| 8 | JOHN COLLINS , one of only two survivors from the Old Firm game which demolished Andy Roxburgh 's squad for Wednesday 's match with Germany , will put contractual problems aside to concentrate on giving his best for Scotland , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 9 | No I 'm not are not having anything this for Christine . |
| 10 | Most deep tapes have two or three rows of pockets making them adjustable for use with all types of track or pole . |
| 11 | Some of these boxes have quite small compartments , making them unsuitable for resistors and some other components . |
| 12 | Unlined curtains are ideal when made up in easy-care fabrics which can be laundered frequently , making them perfect for kitchens or bathrooms . |
| 13 | Some 2,600 houses have already passed the 90-day limit without offers , making them available for sale to any buyer . |
| 14 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |
| 15 | If the Inland Revenue were to assess this payment , is there any other way I could cover my staff 's lunch expenses without making them liable for tax ? |
| 16 | Owen laboured over the living , mending them as best he could , and over the dead , making them ready for burial , until he fell and lay like dead beside the last of them , but still conscious and aware , and Adam and some of those who had come with the priest to their aid carried him away and bedded him in quietness in one of the cottages . |
| 17 | Pegasus were first to create any chances in front of goal but they overplayed the ball at the vital moment , making it easy for Portadown to clear . |
| 18 | Microsoft is now trying to market Windows as a stepping stone to OS/2 , by making it easy for users of Windows and writers of programs for Windows to migrate to OS/2 eventually . |
| 19 | ClubCall are making it easy for People readers to vote by telephone if they choose not to use the voting form on Page 41 . |
| 20 | The sides are made of contrastingly coloured elasticated nylon with no foam fitted , the lack of kidney protection making it unsuitable for use in canoe polo . |
| 21 | France : Since a law making it compulsory for employers to offer hepatitis B vaccination to healthcare employees was passed in January 1991 , usage of vaccine has risen nearly four-fold . |
| 22 | The German government recently drafted regulations making it compulsory for car makers to take back their old cars when they are due to be scrapped . |
| 23 | Sir , — There is a small but growing voice to be heard expressing the desire for the introduction of the Australian system of making it compulsory for people to vote in political elections . |
| 24 | In Compressor/Expander mode , compression on the neck pickup swells out the tone to a given ceiling and sustains it , making it good for McCartney-esque melodic lines , but also for slapping , as the limiter-like properties of the compressor prevent massive explosions of sound . |
| 25 | Within a short time , his former employers ordered 100 tons of the new material , thus making it worthwhile for ICI to build a production plant . |
| 26 | ADVANCES in microelectronics are making it possible for countries to switch to a military strategy that is purely for defence and has no offensive capability — if they want to . |
| 27 | If a commitment to good schools and parental choice means anything it must mean encouraging good schools to get better and making it possible for parents to send their children there . |
| 28 | The opportunity was taken to provide the different subjects with their own suites of rooms making it possible for Departments to stamp their characters on their surroundings . |
| 29 | In factories and workshops , advances in machine technology had deskilled numerous working-class jobs , thus making it possible for employers to replace skilled men with successive relays of unskilled boys , and at lower wages . |
| 30 | The best news for schools is that a special price is available making it possible for schools to acquire the discs , a laser vision player and an Acorn Archimedes computer for £899 . |