Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 6 | I await the first sighting of this crucial volume with the awed anticipation of a Crusader waiting for the Holy Grail to arrive through the post . |
| 7 | Around this time , Bruckner likened himself to a watchdog that had slipped its chain ; and four-square as much of the Study Symphony is , it conveys just that sense of a barely-checked yearning for the epic symphonic tussles that Bruckner seems to have been fated to undertake . |
| 8 | ON APRIL 26 , Qin Benli , the editor of the Shanghai-based Shijie Jingjie Dao Bao ( World Economic Herald ) was sacked for publishing notes of a forum calling for the rehabilitation of Hu Yaobang , the former disgraced Communist Party 's general secretary who died in April this year , and expressing support for the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square . |
| 9 | Their only public actions were as women of a family substituting for a man , most often for its head . |
| 10 | These can be in the form of a database waiting for the user to enter his own data , or a complete database ready for interrogation . |
| 11 | Paul looks introspective , never quite sad , although this is not the picture of a comedian preparing for a night of chuckles to remember . |
| 12 | Notice was given within that time-limit by ‘ exploit ’ of a huissier acting for the appellant and a copy posted at the door of the courthouse . |
| 13 | However , in view of the fact that the fielding team is compelled to position two attacking fieldsmen , bowlers bowl either just short of a length hoping for a slip catch , or well up angling for a driven chance to short cover or mid-wicket . |
| 14 | Prince has been elevated by success to a level beyond that of a musician working for a living . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) Under CA 1985 , s131(1) merger relief ( see para 23.1.5 below ) will be available " … where the issuing company has secured at least a 90 per cent equity holding in another company in pursuance of an arrangement providing for the allotment of equity shares in the issuing company on terms that the consideration for the shares allotted is to be provided ( a ) by the issue or transfer to the issuing company of equity shares in the other company … |
| 16 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 17 | The only concession allowed by the party leadership was the acceptance of an amendment calling for the development of emergency procedures for greater consultation between the MPs and the national executive committee after complaints that its members had no knowledge of the deal with the Government until the Commons vote had taken place . |
| 18 | The switchboard on the ground floor of the Questura was manned by a chubby youth who was holding a large roll , turning it from one side to the other and studying it closely like a wrestler looking for a hold . |
| 19 | I told him the captain was out walking , and the man waited , like a cat waiting for a mouse . |
| 20 | Tenderly , she laid the first few bundles in the pail and sat back on her heels , blackened fingers curled , like a housewife waiting for the stove to light . |
| 21 | They forgot about Tavett and moved on to discuss Pascoe and how , when they came to think of it , he had looked very like a man waiting for a major heart attack . |
| 22 | While he stood in amazement and distress Simon moved quietly about like a hound searching for a line . |
| 23 | Outside in the passage Ferris was prancing gently on his toes like a runner limbering for a race . |
| 24 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 25 | ‘ Criticising my age is like a footballer going for the man rather than the ball . |
| 26 | ‘ I feel like a Maharajah waiting for the tiger to pounce on the tied-up goat , ’ Forster grinned . |
| 27 | He looked servile , Albert said happily to himself — not like a man of command passing on old clothes at all ; more like a foot-man waiting for an end of his master 's good-byes . |
| 28 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 29 | Like a soul waiting for the ferry , |
| 30 | She took in a few deep breaths , like a singer preparing for a song . |