Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 2 | Her book is not a comprehensive history of English garden design , but a much chancier , though equally delightful narrative depending for its emphasis on what happened to find its way into the collection . |
| 3 | The Lake District 's Herdwick sheep are threatened by the reduction of an EC subsidy concession allowing for late lambing in the cold climatePHOTOGRAPHS : DON McPHEE Tyson Hartley … |
| 4 | Incidentally , only banks A to F can be accessed without some form of MIDI control , but with sixty possible selections that hardly leaves the user struggling for memory space . |
| 5 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 6 | All outlined how fab System 10 was , and how it would help them , with PeopleSoft rooting for database cursors and the new Open Client because it wants to offer customers better performance , distributed data management , system administration tools and very large database support , and Bachman promising to support System 10 — well , because it just liked Sybase so much . |
| 7 | But we still have to train people to be able to cook under any conditions — a young soldier can often find himself on his own in the field cooking for a given number of people . |
| 8 | The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group . |
| 9 | Taking sub-system 1.7 for example , the lower order systems needed to provide full board catering for residents , and occasional meals for day-clients were considered , and the second-level model shown in Fig 11.7 was constructed . |
| 10 | This ‘ step ’ is mirrored at the tip of the asymmetric headstock , and at the recess in the base of the body , with two straplock buttons either side of the base allowing for good free-standing stability . |
| 11 | Outside in the passage Ferris was prancing gently on his toes like a runner limbering for a race . |
| 12 | If you are having difficulty cooking for everyone in the family , try Roseyne Masselin 's recipes ( see p.70 ) ; they are also Mediterranean in style and perfect for today 's lifestyle . |
| 13 | Knowing exactly what was coming next , and her heart aching for poor Phena , Ellie said softly , ‘ And she could n't find any record of a David Anthony Kent having been born , having even existed — and so knew that her mother had lied . ’ |
| 14 | Fabia at once volunteered , her heart aching for her sister . |
| 15 | From then on he sat cowering in the corner beside his case praying for the journey to end and did not dare move , look down or even breath . |
| 16 | He wants a high speed railway with national companies owning the track but undertakings such as a privatised British Rail bidding for track-time to run services across Europe . |
| 17 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 18 | Nigel Clough 's arrival at Liverpool , Wales ' World Cup prospects and his natural thirst for goals has left the Reds ' striker itching for action in a season which could turn out to be a memorable . |
| 19 | ‘ CAN YOU do an exploding monster drawing for the letters page ? ’ enquired the then art editor over the ‘ phone . |
| 20 | Observers noted that , since early 1989 , the Phnom Penh government had embarked upon a reformist programme allowing for greater political diversity and for measures to liberalize the economy further . |
| 21 | For a few minutes we watched a tree-creeper working his way up the trunk of a tree looking for grubs until Bill the dog , crashing through the undergrowth sniffing for smells , frightened him off . |
| 22 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
| 23 | It is one of three measures contained in the draft Quantative Ingredient Labelling for Characteristic Ingredients Directive ( QUID ) . |
| 24 | Almost broke , she had worked as a telephonist at an escort agency whispering secret promises to paying clients , and as a hostess in a Soho club catering for Japanese businessmen . |
| 25 | Although professionalism was restricted and most governing sports bodies held themselves aloof from the pursuit of profit , the impression remains that sport soon became part of a ‘ leisure , industry catering for the needs of a new kind of urban consumer . |
| 26 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 27 | In seeking to make these aims operational , the plan set out the general characteristics of the proposed polytechnic : it was to be a ‘ broadly-based institution catering for a wide range of higher education for the over-18 age groups ’ , giving priority to sandwich courses , but providing courses other than degree courses for those able to benefit from ‘ advanced courses of a specialist nature ’ . |
| 28 | Not only are primary schools in the neighbourhood competing for children but prep schools may also be attracting pupils out of the area too . |
| 29 | ( 3 ) An objection shall , for the purposes of paragraph ( ii ) of subsection ( 2 ) above , be intimated to the applicant ( a ) by delivering to him a copy of the notice of objection lodged with the licensing board under paragraph ( a ) of that subsection ; or ( ii ) by sending a copy of the said notice by registered post or by recorded delivery in a letter addressed to him at his proper address ; or ( c ) by leaving a copy of the said notice for him at his proper address ; and , for the purposes of paragraphs ( ii ) and ( c ) of this subsection , the proper address in the case of an applicant being an individual natural person shall be his place of abode as specified in his application or , in the case of such an applicant applying for the renewal of a licence , the premises in respect of which the application is made , and , in the case of an applicant other than an individual natural person , shall be the address specified in the application . |
| 30 | They got it when Inzamam was short of speed returning for a second run , and Malcolm 's throw from third man was slickly relayed by Russell to the bowler 's end . |