Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 2 | Can you imitate an academic ? — like not washing or changing your shirt for the next few days … ? ’ |
| 3 | What remains For MacDonald and Wimpey , of course , is patenting their process and cloning their hybrid for the purpose of franchising . |
| 4 | He stared at her , almost as if seeing his daughter for the very first time , his eyes boring into her , and she suffered his scrutiny as best she could . |
| 5 | On his way to the restaurant he passed a man and a woman arm in arm , a man walking purposefully , as if late for an appointment , a woman standing next to her car and searching her bag for the key . |
| 6 | His narrative reveals Geertz ( almost ) capable of being a player himself , helping to establish his credibility as a knowing ‘ reader ’ of cockfighting and supporting his claims for the activity 's wider anthropological significance . |
| 7 | The resources are allocated periodically at a review meeting which is preceded by individual project leaders assessing their own progress and estimating their needs for the next period . |
| 8 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 9 | You should see them — they were ringing the Castle round when I came away , and making themselves fires for the night on Cnoc na Lude across the Tilt . |
| 10 | This chapter considers these developments , arguing that they have an obvious potential to amplify , rather than reduce , the tendency to public disorder , and assessing their implications for the erosion of civil liberties . |
| 11 | At the same time Wolff personally bought into the ailing Union Steamship Co. , with its services to South Africa , becoming a director and winning its custom for the yard . |
| 12 | Sheldukher stared down at her suddenly , as if registering her presence for the first time . |
| 13 | The next day we spent the forenoon ashore at Smeerenburg looking at the remains of the old Dutch whaling-station , and setting our feet for the first time on the Spitsbergen tundra . |
| 14 | Dacourt looked at me under lowered brows as if recognising my existence for the first time . |
| 15 | While acknowledging his argument for the bolt placement , I advised that he had done the route ; if others thought a bolt should be placed , let someone else go ahead and place it . |
| 16 | It had entered into these relationships with the new category of institutions while retaining its role for the validation of degree-level courses from whatever direction they might come outside the universities . |
| 17 | At this stage , while setting your goals for the whole dieting period , use another graph to plot out your weight at the end of each month . |
| 18 | The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either . |
| 19 | The speech outlining government policy at the opening of the parliamentary session was delivered by King Hussein himself — a move which was interpreted as underlining his support for the new government of Ibn Shaker . |
| 20 | As well as giving us data for the industry , the LFS provided us with information about the narrow ( KOS ) occupational group of waiters and bar staff in which casuals are concentrated . |
| 21 | The hotel tried to rely upon the notice in guest 's room as excluding their liability for the loss . |
| 22 | The TV presenter looked across at the sergeant , as though registering his presence for the first time . |