Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waite actions were begun both in the English and the Irish courts in respect of breach of a licensing agreement providing for the manufacture in Ireland of bullet-proof vests for the Libyan authorities . |
| 2 | As time passed I became more and more interested in the intriguing field of radio broadcasting , little knowing that this was only the beginning of a radio career lasting for the next 50 years . |
| 3 | ‘ Your average whore , ’ explained Lili clearly , ‘ goes round like a taxi cab touting for trade , but the innocent irresistible woman is like a municipal bus . |
| 4 | So , really what you 're saying is that if we 're looking at trip wires to stop things happening , there 's a powerful a really powerful case for a pensioner trustee looking for whistle blowers . |
| 5 | But most of the rest of his career was as a travel photographer working for P & O and Union Castle , as well as the tourist boards for the Bahamas , Barbados and Jamaica , where he went every second winter to photograph personalities such as Joan Crawford or Richard Lester , and incidentally took the last photographs of Ian Fleming and Noel Coward . |
| 6 | I hold the bunch stiff as a tennis racket waiting for a serve . |
| 7 | Since the union organisations are part of PRI , they have a dual function : firstly , as a pressure group lobbying for a greater share of social benefits for labour ; secondly , as an apparatus of political control of the working class . |
| 8 | For example , if your theme is pink , you could choose a pink silk background and no mount for one picture , have a pink mount with a cream silk backing for another picture , choose a cream card with a pink wash line around the aperture and pink paper behind the mount for a third , and perhaps create a fourth with a plain cream satin background . |
| 9 | That is , if you introduce into a cell a protein molecule with a novel sequence of amino acids , the cell can not synthesize nucleic acid molecules with a base sequence coding for that protein . |
| 10 | But not without making his will with a Trust Fund providing for a public park for Louth . |
| 11 | A disc has been sent out with a software licence asking for $189 : do n't users install this at their own risk ? |
| 12 | Daca , the main agent for North Star , has issued copies of a letter from a City solicitor vouching for the ‘ good standing ’ of Global Finance which says the corporation is understood to have access to ‘ significant funds ’ . |
| 13 | Almost broke , she had worked as a telephonist at an escort agency whispering secret promises to paying clients , and as a hostess in a Soho club catering for Japanese businessmen . |
| 14 | He is a capable finisher and his experience of the big occasion will come in useful in a Maghery side gunning for their first title . |
| 15 | an expert of technical issues in a disputes clause providing for arbitration of non-technical issues : see 6.8. general disputes to an expert for determination : see 6.9. these types of clause . |
| 16 | That said , the crew of the Enterprise still gives value for money as the reluctant honour guard to a Klingon delegation suing for peace . |
| 17 | When we write to a bank manager asking for an overdraft , we will probably take all three into account if we wish to succeed ; but we do not need to know any other personal details . |
| 18 | Comprising a quality paper on a Kraft silicone backing for assured foul-free printer throughput and featuring an environmentally friendly water based adhesive , the labels are available in white or a custom specified background colour , with optional bespoke printing depicting corporate graphics etc. , in up to 2 colours . |
| 19 | It is not that boys go out on a Saturday night looking for milk bottles or other things to smash . |
| 20 | On Nov. 23 the Italian Prime Minister , Giulio Andreotti , then president of the European Communities ( EC ) , and the Canadian Prime Minister , Brian Mulroney , signed a declaration in Rome which set relations between the two parties on a quasi-treaty footing providing for regular summit meetings and top-level ministerial consultations . |
| 21 | The woman , who is unable to have children of her own and does not wish to be identified , is one of 485 women at a fertility clinic waiting for donor eggs . |
| 22 | This is followed by a trust clause providing for payment of the legacies in the ‘ earlier will ’ ( legata quae priore testamento quo filios et Seium heredes scripsi reliqui praestari volo ) . |
| 23 | The clothes shop , named ‘ Crazy Face ’ , was owned by a business man hoping for greater things named Joe Moss . |