Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our trade expert , John Coates , hazards that the trade might only be willing to pay £12,500 in the hope of retailing it for £15,500 . |
| 2 | Mr Gillance said : ‘ He turned to dishonesty in the hope of providing something for the two of them because by then they were in debt . ’ |
| 3 | Police spent three hours persuading her to leave the car before taking her for counselling at a police station . |
| 4 | The right approach might possibly be along the lines of : ‘ How about the family closing ranks and getting together now that you need a little help ? ’ or ‘ Give us the pleasure of doing something for you for a change . ’ |
| 5 | I have not heard anything more since then , and am anxious to give you as much time as possible working with the tape before asking you for feedback on your experiences with it . |
| 6 | The Higher Labour Court decided that having extramarital affairs with married women was not a violation of the contract of employment that would justify a dismissal , as this would have the effect of punishing someone for interfering in marital relations , which the German Code of Civil Procedure would not permit . |
| 7 | Challenging the expert by suing him for negligence , where it is the expert , rather than the decision which is being challenged , is dealt with in Chapter 14 . |
| 8 | LIFESPAN always uses the term Quality Assurance ( QA ) to mean the act of assessing something for its fitness for a specified purpose . |
| 9 | What these critics apparently ca n't stomach is that wealth creators have a tendency to acquire wealth in the process of creating it for others . |
| 10 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 11 | Because what 's the point in doing no matter how good you think you 're doing , what 's the point of doing it for yourself in the living room , you want er everybody to listen to it . |
| 12 | What 's the point in saving everything for a comfortable old age if you 're suffering hardship now ? |
| 13 | Pauline began the Meeting by thanking everyone for attending the important meeting before lunch and for their concern for our future . |
| 14 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 15 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 16 | The unguarded nature of the latter , which was never worked over by Thomas , provides occasional glimpses of the youth who left St. Paul 's after his seventeenth birthday in order to achieve a twofold purpose : ostensibly to please his father by attending a few practical evening classes and in the day by preparing himself for some form of Civil Service clerical post , while privately , he sought the freedom of a young nature-writer who was determined to collect his papers into a book . |
| 17 | The girl who earned her nickname by wrestling with an alligator who made the mistake of choosing her for his dinner , has added yet another incredible feat to her repertoire ! |
| 18 | But she could not stand the thought of doing nothing for two months . |
| 19 | I think that 's the voice of conscience and the voice of charity and the voice of doing something for the general good . |
| 20 | If he played at West Brom there would always be the risk of losing him for three or four matches . ’ |
| 21 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 22 | ‘ I used to do a lot of home brewing and going round beer festivals gave me the idea of doing it for a living . |
| 23 | World champion , and well on the way to winning it for a second time . |
| 24 | The earlier cases do not make any reference to the possibility of arresting someone for the sole purpose of questioning him or her with a view to obtaining a confession . |
| 25 | The interpretative work of field staff , particularly the procedures by which they graft meaning onto the behaviour of polluters for the purpose of categorizing them for future decisions about enforcement , is , then , a central theme . |
| 26 | It is , therefore , impossible to isolate such a unit for the purpose of testing it for ‘ closed ’ or ‘ open ’ minds or for ‘ reinterpretation ’ as opposed to ‘ readjustment of belief . |
| 27 | People who use land and invest their labour in it are benefiting society more than those real owners who neglect it to the extent of ignoring it for twelve years or more . |
| 28 | At the time of presenting themselves for employment , many nurses/mothers may not have experienced any difficulties with their children 's health or may not have foreseen the possible difficulties . |
| 29 | Now that the legal framework for the rest of the century appears to have been set attention can be given to the task of interpreting it for governors . |
| 30 | This is one of the earliest references we have in Milton to his own dedication to the task of preparing himself for leaving something to aftertimes that it would not willingly let die . |