Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the benefit " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Eating for the benefit of your health does n't mean chewing your way through mounds of bran and raw carrots . |
2 | She knew he was only pretending for the benefit of their audience . |
3 | There 's no way in which you can stop er free-riders like that invading systems where individuals are striving for the benefit of the group . |
4 | John returned a few years later , but he was now an old man and the moving spirit seems to have been his daughter Virginia , who carried out experiments in the breeding of silkworms at Little Gidding for the benefit of the American colony . |
5 | Amateurs wanted to get off to the country for the weekend rather than performing for the benefit of playing spectators . |
6 | On the stairs some man with a twelve-string guitar was improvising for the benefit of three skinny girls with long blonde hair . |
7 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
8 | The union , and that means the general committee elected by the club as well as the professional staff appointed by the committee , are working for the benefit of everyone involved in the game in Wales . |
9 | Are not those the results of Tory policies working for the benefit of patients ? |