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

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1 As can be seen from Table 6 , there is a significant main effect for level of processing for the recognition scores .
2 It was utterly dull and repetitive , day after day of filing for the Inland Revenue .
3 The most feverish area of research in snowboarding for the past few years has been the quest for an improved binding system — in particular a releasable binding that works .
4 Two women , both family breadwinners , found the union of help in fighting for the right to be considered for promotion .
5 Filip said that figures for all of 1992 were not clear enough to state if the workstation business was profitable in the year but in the fourth quarter , even assuming a margin of error in accounting for the workstation operations as a distinct business , the operation clearly was profitable .
6 In October 1966 George Blake escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison after serving nearly five years of a 42 year sentence of imprisonment for spying for the Soviet Union .
7 However , it should not be thought that Type I systems are non-problematic from the point of view of planning for the health ( care ) needs of a population .
8 It was beautiful and luxurious and designed both as status symbol and for ease of living for the emperor himself .
9 In either case the problem for X is the same , namely what is X 's position if Y Ltd. having taken delivery then becomes insolvent and goes into liquidation before paying for the goods ?
10 The right-wing Conservative Party ( CP ) accused the National Party of political surrender , and CP leader Andries Treurnicht said that his party was now alone in parliament in fighting for the self-determination and liberty of whites .
11 In addition to playing for the clubs in league competitions she also enjoys pairs and triples games with fellow bowlers .
12 If such an allotment would be prohibited by foreign law , or would only be permitted subject to compliance with onerous filing or other obligations , the scheme can be modified in relation to the overseas shareholders in question by providing for the consideration securities to be allotted to an independent trustee who will then sell the securities and account to the shareholders with the net proceeds .
13 The right hand side of this equation is known as the net marginal revenue , the net increase in wealth before accounting for the transfer-in price .
14 Women can check the device is in place by feeling for the IUD threads high in the vagina .
15 Mrs Margarete Hoeke , sentenced in August , 1987 to eight years in jail for spying for the KGB , and Mrs Elke Falk , a ministerial secretary sentenced to 6 ½ years last May , both said they were forced into spying after love affairs .
16 Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew .
17 Cohen 's results showed that masking produced a significant decrement in the left visual field but not in the right visual field , thus implying a superiority in rate of encoding for the left hemisphere .
18 The Attorney General , Sir Hartley Shawcross , agreed with the Lord Chancellor that the grading of murders would be unworkable , adding that he still remained in favour of providing for the abolition of capital punishment in the Bill .
19 Clinton finished some way behind , and Kerrey and Harkin took fourth and fifth place respectively , having chosen to ignore the caucus in favour of campaigning for the primary in South Dakota on Feb. 25 .
20 The indiscriminate exploitation of Andean forests to provide wood for mines and as fuel , in tandem with burning for the creation of pastures and subsequent overgrazing , are , according to Millones , mainly responsible for the demise of these high forests and their fauna .
21 She went on her way to bed without pausing for the goodnight kiss that he had forgotten .
22 The Grand Union people , already very short of money , decided that there was little point at present in going for the wide gauge , especially as it was ( conveniently ) reported that traders preferred loading into narrow boats .
23 Schools are prevented by law from charging for the curriculum , including charging pupils and their parents directly for school trips and visits , yet on the other hand schools are encouraged to generate as much revenue as they possibly can .
24 Table IV shows the rates of sickness absence by grade after adjusting for the health related behaviours ( smoking habits and frequency of alcohol consumption ) , ethnic group , work characteristics , and social circumstances outside work which predicted rates of sickness absence .
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