Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [noun] for [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The County Council , faced with making savings of around £2 million in its social services budget , is considering bringing in charges for using the centres .
2 NATO ministers promised humanitarian aid , and drew up guidelines for recognising the independence of the former Soviet republics .
3 This weekend 's meeting is the latest in a series of conferences over the past two weeks during which ministers , their advisers , vice-chancellors , polytechnic directors and senior officials have been thrashing out strategies for expanding the higher education system .
4 The procedure originated to deal with circumstances where parties wish to set up machinery for determining a price without negotiations , often where the obligation to make a payment arises in the future , as with options .
5 Firstly , set aside time for preparing the meal .
6 Demands for the NEC to draw up proposals for widening the party franchise were led by John Edmonds , general secretary of the GMB .
7 Music Week cites a bass player who receives about £800 for backing the likes of Paul Young and Julia Fordham .
8 Where accommodation is provided for a child ordinarily resident in the area of another local authority , the home authority may take over responsibility for accommodating the child within three months of receiving written notification of the situation ( s20(2) ) .
9 But as her husband 's health declined she took on responsibility for maintaining the farm and orchard which was the family 's main source of income .
10 The risk of the Kantineservice decision is that , although there is no true transfer of an undertaking when the franchisor is changed , the person acquiring the franchise may be seen as taking over responsibility for running the undertaking and will normally retain the original employees .
11 Dad picks up £76,324 for running the country .
12 Turn around times for replacing a standard outsole can be as low as 30 minutes , but even when more complicated adjustments and corrections have to be made , shoes are usually back on your feet the same day .
13 Without entering into the substantive details of the agreement or of the 1990 convention for its application , which appears not yet to have entered into force , it may be noted that it sets out rules for crossing the signatory states ' frontiers not just for their own citizens but also for citizens of all EC Member States , and the Convention of Application distinguishes between treatment at the internal and external borders of the signatory states .
14 Penge U.D.C. asked the Company to pay about £250 for widening the bridge at Anerley Station but it eventually cost £1,750 .
15 ‘ This is an exciting and challenging time to take on responsibility for leading the firm , ’ Mr Freedman said .
16 The tour set for twelve to eighteen months starting in summer 1993 and sales of a catalogue with colour reproductions of Barnes works , are expected to bring in funds for renovating the foundation 's gallery building and bringing its operations up to modern standards .
17 The faster US troops can turn over responsibility for keeping the peace to Panamanian forces , officials said , the better the US invasion would look to Latin Americans .
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