Example sentences of "and [prep] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The availability of telephone , radio and television is often dependent however on services provided by government , so politicoeconomic decisions are involved and some would even maintain that the mass media provide opportunities for political pressure , and for communicating in the form of propaganda . |
| 2 | I want to explore what room for manoeuvre individual teachers have , in the middle of all the very real difficulties , for staying positive , and for dealing with the pressures in the most effective way possible . |
| 3 | They expound their policy of minimal state interference to find the ‘ least detrimental available alternative ’ — one in which child placement and procedure for child placement ‘ maximises , in accord with the child 's sense of time , the child 's opportunity for being wanted and for maintaining on a continuous , unconditional and permanent basis , a relationship with at least one adult who is or will become the child 's psychological parent ’ ( Goldstein et al. , 1979 , p. 189 ) . |
| 4 | In 1981 , at the 150th anniversary meeting in York of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , the University of York conferred its degree of doctor on J. G. Crowther ‘ For creating the profession of scientific correspondent , for scholarly contributions to the history of science and to the social aspects of science , and for acting as a healthy irritant to the scientific establishment for 60 years . ’ |
| 5 | ( deputy manager ) has responsibility for the day-to-day personnel affairs within the Association , and for advising on the formulation of HCIMA policy in relation to the broad manpower and employment issues . |
| 6 | Our agreement would propose a royalty of 2% of our receipts on each written component for the use of the syllabus of Project English and for looking over the Activity Book and Video Guide manuscripts . |
| 7 | also accompanied the group and special thanks are due to him for his organisation and for looking after the Grantham pensioners welfare . |
| 8 | Neocolors are greasy and are therefore lively for creating textures of all sorts and for using as a water resist . |
| 9 | This left charges for one murder and for travelling in the presence of an unlicensed pistol . |
| 10 | It is this level of normalisation that is usually used as the basis for the design of the data model , as an end result of data analysis , and for mapping onto a database ( the logical schema ) . |
| 11 | On arrival , guests take off their outdoor shoes at the ryokan entrance and are supplied with slippers ; shoes are handled by the management ( ie , placed at the entrance for you to leave ) , and for walking within the ryokan garden , they supply sandals or traditional geta ( wooden clogs ) . |
| 12 | The centre has as its base a large house in the village of Glencoe which is surrounded by fantastic mountains — ideal for skiing and mountaineering in the winter and for hillwalking in the summer . |
| 13 | A LIFFE official is responsible for ensuring an orderly pit and for arbitrating in the case of disputed trades . |
| 14 | Coffee has been blamed for increasing the pulse rate and for interfering with the efficiency of the digestive process . |
| 15 | Firms are assumed to have unbounded capacity for working out strategies and payoffs , and for working through the abstract chains of reasoning which lead them to non-co-operative equilibrium strategies . |
| 16 | Promotion is awarded to the person who demonstrates they are the most suitable for the advertised vacancy and for working in the higher grade . |
| 17 | Charles has already achieved notoriety in the world of science for extracting the genes from a piece of frozen mammoth and for embarking on a trip to Mongolia in search of the long-eared hedgehog . |
| 18 | I despised the other actors for not sticking up for me , and for sniggering at the accent when I finally did it . |
| 19 | His care for disabled children spans work at the orthopaedic hospital in Oswestry , Alder Hey Hospital , Liverpool , and through Riding for the Disabled . |
| 20 | Thank you for those who help our understanding of Your word , through preaching , through writing and through sharing in the fellowship of Your church . |
| 21 | " In the greater number of epidemic diseases , " McNab went on , " the morbid poison appears to enter the blood in some way , and after multiplying during a period of so-called incubation , it affects the whole system . |
| 22 | From Morvich , where we suspended our journey south on page 93 , the old road turns south to join the A.87 coming over the causeway on Loch Duich and after passing through a huge cutting arrives at Shiel Bridge , a pleasant wooded oasis sheltered by high mountains . |
| 23 | He was a member of the Medical Research Council 's Burns Unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary ( 1942-44 ) , and after serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in north Europe and India he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the West of Scotland Plastic and Oral Surgery Service . |
| 24 | He had a love of cars at a very early age and after serving as an engineer in the Royal Australian Air Force during the war , he started racing midget cars in his home country , winning the Australian Midget Car Championship in the five year between 1947–51 . |
| 25 | It is not difficult to tell from casual chat at court who does what and after dealing with a few claims you soon get to know who is on the other side acting for the insurance companies . |
| 26 | The voyage took eight months , and after stopping for a short time in Malaysia , we arrived in the Gulf of Tongking . |
| 27 | He was reliever to feel a slight tug as the parachute eventually opened ; it was bitter cold but fortunately he was being blown away from the capital 's fires , and after drifting for a time , hit the ground ‘ like a wet sack ’ . |
| 28 | Lawrence is far happier at wheeling and dealing on the transfer market than Jack Charlton and after managing on a mean budget with Charlton Athletic it must be a joy to him to have money to spend . |
| 29 | He started going to ‘ Aid Spain ’ meetings and after listening to a medical student who had returned from the country he decided to help in the most direct way . |
| 30 | He was granted a football scholarship to attend UCLA and after graduating with a degree in Political Science his dream was realized when he signed for the New York Giants , the team he had supported since childhood , as a rookie quarterback . |