Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
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