Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the gold backing for the dollar crumbled in the 1960s , the United States increased its pressure on central banks not to join private speculators in demanding gold ; in 1967 West Germany issued a formal declaration undertaking not to ‘ cash in ’ its dollars for gold , and most other countries , with the notable exception of France , apparently made unofficial statements to the same effect . |
| 2 | Disabled people had not been consulted about the way planning for the project should be arranged . |
| 3 | Have you talked only about the bride cooking for the bridegroom when you know she is a career girl and a women 's libber , and if she is not some of the audience will be ? |
| 4 | The market place can be confusing but Trader Horn picks his way through the mire Going for the grand tour . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a bomb , ’ I thought , as I braced myself against the walls of the trench waiting for the inevitable explosion . |
| 6 | Fortunately , Settis is known to be a good friend of the Museum 's director John Walsh , and is a member of the committee planning for the future of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu after the new museum opens at the Getty Center in west Los Angeles . |
| 7 | The Sheikh had crossed them by camel as a boy ; then as a young man with a wife and small children , including the boy at my side , he had camped overnight on one side of the range waiting for the engines of his jeeps to cool before grinding inch by inch , around and over . |
| 8 | We returned to our chamber and spent the rest of the day preparing for the banquet or listening to Doctor Agrippa . |
| 9 | I could n't find the entrance to the restaurant that night for a start , and I spent the first half hour of the evening circling the outside of the building looking for a way in — in full view of all the diners . |
| 10 | ’ . Prior to the establishment of the modern police system , the control of this underclass was the responsibility of the army working for the monarch or government . |
| 11 | The Governing Body has decided that the income from this fund , which is used according to the By-Law to provide Edith Haynes Scholarships for either undergraduates or graduates of the College at the discretion of the Governing Body , will for the present be available to make grants in the first instance to mature graduates of the College who wish to continue or resume academic work , and are ineligible for State Studentships , or similar public support , by reason of age or inability to meet the requirement of residence in the U. K. Should no such applicant come forward , graduates of another university who are or have been members of the College reading for a further degree will be considered eligible . |
| 12 | And so , while Reynard Lennon , Jahsaxa Penumbra 's most valuable operative , combed the dank underworld of the city looking for a runaway , Zambia Crevecoeur became the recipient of Tammuz Malamute 's history . |
| 13 | I wandered the streets of the city looking for a place to stay . |
| 14 | Once they had reached the spiky barrier Trentham changed direction and began to crawl along the German side of the fence searching for a breach in the wire between them and safety . |
| 15 | D'Arcy spent the first hour of the morning arranging for a private aircraft to fly them from le Bourget . |
| 16 | He was well fed , well soused , bursting in strength and eagerness for life , King of the mountaintown making for the pot-house and Joanna . |
| 17 | As the youngest car racer takes to the track at Silverstone … the oldest boat racer is across the other side of the world battling for the world championship … in Singapore this weekend its showdown time … we 've got two Central South pilots on course for the powerboat crown … and they 're the stars in our Friday Feature |
| 18 | Rory smiled , looked once more at Lewis 's retreating back , then started down the far side of the dune heading for the narrow road . |
| 19 | Answer guide : In the former case an invoice for the goods or services supplied has been received whereas in the latter no invoice has been received at the time the accounts are drawn up therefore an estimate of the amount owing for the goods or services provided is made . |
| 20 | The presentation ceremony was held in Carno , at the factory , with the Lord Lieutenant of the County deputizing for the Queen . |
| 21 | We ran the length of the train looking for an unlocked door . |
| 22 | In this condition , one wrong base pair in the DNA of the gene coding for a particular enzyme means that this enzyme is functionless and the body can not easily make melanin , which is the dark pigment responsible for brown eyes and dark hair , and which is produced in response to sunlight when we get a sun-tan . |
| 23 | The epithelial cells lining the lung and gut have a failure of ion transport due to a mutation of the gene coding for a cell membrane protein , the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator . |
| 24 | To complete the sequence of the gene coding for the largest subunit , the nucleotide sequence of fragment RO was determined by oligonucleotide walking in M13mp18 clones bearing that fragment . |
| 25 | Overlapping M13 clones bearing the left end of fragment RE' and fragment RY' ( Fig. 1 ) were also sequenced , using synthetic oligonucleotides , to complete the sequence of the gene coding for the second largest subunit . |
| 26 | The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement . |
| 27 | Norway and the Soviet Union agreed on Dec. 15 , 1989 , on the terms of a treaty providing for an exchange of information on civilian and military accidents at sea outside their territorial waters . |
| 28 | An example of a clause providing for the payment of a participating dividend is : The Company shall after making all necessary provisions for payment of the Preference Dividend ( including any Arrears ) and the redemption of the Preference Shares but in priority to payment of any dividend to the holders of Ordinary Shares , pay to the holders of the Preferred Ordinary Shares as from ( and inclusive of ) the accounting period ending … , subject to payment in full of the Preferred Dividend ( including any Arrears of the same ) pay to the holders of Preferred Ordinary Shares a cumulative cash dividend ( " the Participating Dividend " ) of a sum ( net of any advance corporation tax payable by the Company ) equal to … % of the Profit After Tax for each accounting period of the Company ; the Participating Dividend shall be deemed to accrue from day to day throughout each accounting period and shall become payable and be paid not later than four months immediately following the end of the accounting period to which it relates . |
| 29 | An earlier report of a cDNA coding for a PLC- α ( ref.20 ) , which showed no sequence identity to the other PLC enzymes , may not be a PLC but is probably thiol-protein disulphide oxidoreductase . |
| 30 | I do not see any relevant distinction between the provision of a structural survey at the request of a borrower applying for a further advance and the provision of a house buyers ' report in the same circumstances . |