Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 While I will grant you that it beats filing for the Inland Revenue , it is a suitcase existence and no matter how glamorous the location of the meeting we very rarely see beyond the airport , the hotel and the stadium .
2 You should n't even consider buying for the new season until you 've consulted our survey , compiled by Steven Seaton .
3 Major deals over the past two years have included leasing for the new ethylene cracker ( a type of refinery ) for BP at Grangemouth , at that time thought to be the largest leasing deal in Britain , a £180m long-term facility to North West Water to finance major infrastructure projects , and a £75m deal with Fujitsu Microelectronics to fund investment in semiconductor equipment at its factory at Newton Aycliffe , County Durham .
4 The electricity generated in this new hydro-electric scheme will be sold to the National Grid ; power to service the site and to provide floodlighting for the spectacular gorge and falls will also be produced by what will be one of the largest electricity-generating waterwheels in Europe .
5 To maintain continuity , the paper suggests that firms should establish transitional arrangements for the handover : these could include arranging for the new partner to work on the audit team beforehand , and ensuring that other senior staff do not change in the same year .
6 For a second she felt as he must have felt waiting for the glowing metal to eat into the skin .
7 On June 22 , 1989 , a new law was ratified providing for the public execution of drug traffickers and dealers as well as of cultivators of plants used for drug production .
8 Where sounds of humanity are muffled by the absorbent tranquillity , where vegetative abundance struggles in mysterious thickets and leaf-thatched tunnels , and moss-veiled statues stand transfixed listening for the echoing revelry of a party that ended centuries ago .
9 German units were now leaving Sicily in a steady trickle as the Luftwaffe began regrouping for the forthcoming attack on Russia .
10 Courtship is not all smooth going for the young male .
11 The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’
12 With regard to the industry budget as a whole , there is a cash cut of £16 million in real terms between the net planned outturn and planned spending for the coming year .
13 These costs are paid straight into the Legal Aid Fund and go to defray the actual costs of the action in the accounts rendered to the Fund by solicitors and counsel acting for the assisted party .
14 Too much energy can be spent looking for the perfect idea when being pragmatic and settling for a satisfactory solution is best .
15 Many hours were taken up in the dark recesses of the developing room at Oxford 's photography workshop ; even more spent waiting for the precise moment to open the shutter .
16 June brides will have to start planning for the big event about now , so in Secrets of Success we show you how to cook the perfect wedding buffet , with salmon and salads , and , of course , a three tier wedding cake that will make 'em gasp .
17 Try looking for the old Cinque Port of Rye along the coast and you 'll be disappointed .
18 When Charles de la Tremoille was mortally wounded in the battle of Marignano in 1515 , his death brought pride for his family since he died fighting for the public good in an engagement at which the king of France himself had been present .
19 SMITH 'S GALLERIES Start saving for the Contemporary Art Society Market , the Cash and Carry Art — the Sainsbury's-sponsored event — which returns at the end of the month to Covent Garden .
20 He has now finished sparring for the big fight and when he 's not out running he spends most of his spare time with his birds .
21 I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way .
22 Already it had whipped the shallow water inside the reef into short seas , white-capped and capable of stopping the big cat in its tracks if he had tried sailing for the far point and Belpan City .
23 Everyone I met kept apologising for the shabby state of the buildings and I had the feeling that if I went back in ten years ' time it would look like the set for some grand-scale horror film , all broken banging shutters and cobwebbed windows .
24 Flemings will arrange financing for the new venture , and Rolls-Royce will have a director on the board .
25 Repeating numbers would quickly get the artistes in trim and once the show was on they would start rehearsing for the main summer production and perform at the same time .
26 She mounted the steps to the front door of the house and stood looking for the right bell to ring .
27 It looks finally at how the material provides nourishing for the finished art or craft object .
28 In Australia , in Melbourne Park , a hundred thousand people sat waiting for the Victorian Football League Cup Final , and while they waited the 100 metres was to be relayed on the stadium scoreboard from Seoul .
29 That it is now required reading for the French Establishment and for anybody involved in business or education is a measure of how successfully it fulfilled its task without compromising a reputation for unbiased reporting .
30 The opposite was true in his perception and so it was necessary to work with this widower helping him say out loud the things that he wanted to say to his wife — all the uncomplimentary and difficult things — and then , having done that , to begin grieving for the lost relationship .
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