Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] for [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution . |
| 2 | The heroes , the solid men of yeoman virtue , the good breeding stock , even the captain ( especially the captain ! ) — they all went down nobly with the ship ; whereas the cowards , the panickers , the deceivers found reasons for skulking in a lifeboat . |
| 3 | Which cricket county was fined £1,000 for tampering with the ball ? |
| 4 | When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court . |
| 5 | Sonya Jeffery , Belfast Parks Department , highlights opportunities for walking in the Cave Hill area , which includes part of the Ulster Way . |
| 6 | Umpires Barry Dudleston and John Holder — the man who reported England for tampering with the ball on the same ground against West Indies last year — changed the ball because it had been suspiciously scuffed . |
| 7 | This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy . |
| 8 | He was fined £700 for swearing at a Cambridge University student , Marcus Wight , in April , and disciplined again in mid-August after clashing with a spectator at a Sunday League fixture . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) those who are vulnerable to particular types of event , but whose circumstances either make their occurrence unlikely , or provide resources for dealing with the event should it occur ; |
| 10 | Although the Macmillan cabinet pressed management to delay a settlement , ministers were not prepared to take responsibility for a breakdown in negotiations ; when the industry settled , the Prime Minister publicly rebuked management for capitulating to the unions and breaching the pay pause ( 1982 : 225–6 ) . |
| 11 | There must have been , for the time being at least , compelling reasons for embarking on the Foxton development . |
| 12 | Earlier in the conversation MacArthur discounted suggestions that Walt Butterworth would assume responsibility for dealing with a treaty . |
| 13 | After a new client was ushered onto the market by the AE , the SAE would then assume responsibility for looking after the client 's market positions , and for obtaining future business . |
| 14 | The charges had been finally brought following the public campaign of Glen Kealey , himself an Ottawa developer , who became the country 's most celebrated protestor and suffered ridicule for standing outside the parliament building in Ottawa for over two years in a crusade against alleged federal government corruption . |
| 15 | The FRED includes proposals for accounting for the treatment of issue costs associated with capital instruments . |
| 16 | For that reason , the model adopted in medical education where the student is continually asked to articulate his or her experience and give reasons for acting in a certain way is particularly valuable . |
| 17 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 18 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 19 | Designers of computer based support for thinking beyond the level of merely providing additional information will hopefully begin to simultaneously use and develop these ideas . |
| 20 | After the broadcast finished Mary and I thanked Joelle for coming on the programme and being a target for all the anti-French feeling flying around at the time . |
| 21 | To get the most efficient results from your cooker hood there is a special New World Ducting Kit for ducting through an external wall or window . |
| 22 | When buying flowers for pressing from a florist , remember that you will need far less material than you would to create an arrangement of fresh flowers . |
| 23 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 24 | Future development of social work practice in this area seems probable , with a social worker having responsibility for relating to a particular Home and its residents . |
| 25 | As well as the four switch sockets on the back of the amp there are sockets for providing power to a foot controller , the usual MIDI in , thru and out , recording outputs for DI'ing into a desk , and the aforementioned FX loop . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , at the risk of confirming suspicions that he was a political reactionary , he scrupulously avoided discussion of internal French politics ( except to criticize Vichy for collaborating with the Germans ) . |
| 27 | Extra-curricular activities , sports , drama , music , chess clubs , gym club etc all improve the chances of making every child a winner , boosting self-image and giving reason for celebrating plus the additional spin off of enhancement of the school 's reputation . |
| 28 | Some sixty-three residents and thirty-seven day people enjoyed the very lively and varied sessions tutored by and — both from Surrey — and still found energy for dancing in the evenings . |
| 29 | A TEENAGE IRA girl was jailed for 10 years yesterday for plotting to kill troops — while her accomplice was given life for helping in the murder of a businessman . |
| 30 | Blackwell Retail , which used to produce its own catalogue , broke with tradition this year and took Books for Giving for the first time . |