Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [subord] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Hunter would have gone further ; to him , ‘ embalming ’ meant a technique more sophisticated than that practised by the Egyptians , a technique ensuring perpetual preservation of the corpse 's remains , involving permanent chemical arrest of decomposition whilst allowing for a pre-mortem appearance . |
2 | Workers could not clear the tunnels of smoke while waiting for the rescue teams to arrive . |
3 | This might be the case with provocation , for example : there may be objections to some of the distinctions now drawn by the law of provocation , but a broader defence of extreme emotional disturbance might provide for reduction of the offence in cases of loss of self-control when caring for a baby or when arrested by a police-officer known to be acting lawfully , and some might feel that there are strong arguments against this . |
4 | The Company has taken out insurance to indemnify its Directors and Officers against liability when acting for the Group . |
5 | For example if studying for an exam , it is well established that studying for long periods without a break is literally , a waste of time . |
6 | Assuming there is no change in the relevant law , the data on which the aggregated tables is based will not be available for nearly a hundred years , and we have to keep this timescale in mind when planning for the future . |
7 | He 'd been staying at a bail hostel in Gloucester whilst waiting for the case to come to court . |
8 | At this stage in his life , this was as important to Nicholson as searching for the character he was playing . |
9 | For example , women have described to researchers how it is difficult to cut down on food when cooking for a partner who expects meat with his main meal ( Charles and Kerr , 1986 ) . |
10 | Multivariate proportional hazard regression was used to analyse the relation between waist-hip ratio and probability of conception per cycle while controlling for the above variables . |