Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no suggestion anywhere else in the New Testament of waiting for the Holy Spirit . |
| 2 | That means that after years of scrimping and saving at Charlton Lawrence should enjoy the luxury of preparing for the big time with money to spend . |
| 3 | The working of the Contagious Diseases Acts themselves also served to mobilise many a radical working man against the exploitation of working-class women , and an important alliance developed between this radicalism and feminists , which had the additional effect of providing for the latter a social support which enhanced their authority within the repeal movement . |
| 4 | Offer it up , people said : offer everything up , the happy times too , it 's all part of praying for the holy souls . |
| 5 | That from the nobility , gentry , clergy , yeomanry and freeholders of Middlesex considered the action both illegal and arbitrary as well as threatening to the very concept of private property : " the pretended necessity of reserving for the public service the specie deposited by individuals in the Bank … may be pleaded at any time , and applied , with equal reason , to any private property whatsoever " . |
| 6 | A sudden wave of feeling for the clever , perfectionist girl washed over him . |
| 7 | There will be a Krypton Factor room for the energetic , A Kind Of Loving for the romantic and even a conference suite named after the inventor of TV , John Logie Baird . |
| 8 | The difficulty of accounting for the historical demographic transition by conventional economic measures ( Cleland and Wilson 1987 ) , and the fall of fertility even in some Third World countries with little economic progress today ( Cleland 1985 ) , has revived interest in non-material motivations for childbearing . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , in the course of preparing for the great race , I have become aware that the message to visiting runners is : ‘ Go home — dead or alive . ’ |
| 10 | For Scotland it 's now a case of rebuilding for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 11 | In some instances , the pace of long-term change is being intensified , for instance in the provision of housing for the rural population , while in others relatively new features are evident , for example in farm indebtedness . |
| 12 | I hope I have not made the experience of caring for the sick parent sound all gloom and sacrifice and bedpans . |
| 13 | It derives from the author 's experience of working for the Agricultural Training Board in an area in the North of Scotland where family and part-time farmers predominate but has been put on a wider footing by detailed investigations of attitudes and needs in eleven counties in England , Wales and Scotland , and by less detailed investigations during visits to Norway , the Federal Republic of Germany and France . |
| 14 | Instead of taking account of and sharing variations in earnings and living standards between spouses , whatever the number of marriages , and then treating them as individuals , the British system as described above has preferred to recognise the work of caring for the young , the sick and the old by giving credits which maintain the care-taker 's entitlement to the basic state pension . |
| 15 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 16 | But although God does have the role in Berkeley 's philosophy of accounting for the continued perceivability of real objects apart from our actual perception of them , it is not quite in the way we have just described . |
| 17 | It 's difficult really because I mean we 're sort of striving for the same sort of things |
| 18 | Now , given that the government 's support of the idea of Strasbourg as being a permanent place of meeting for the European parliament . |
| 19 | Make a point of looking for the lay of the surrounding countryside . |
| 20 | Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory . |
| 21 | The fourth aim of catering for the different levels of ability is more likely to be teacher-dependent . |
| 22 | The rhetoric of Idealism , as proclaimed by , for example , Sadler , Urwick , and Haldane , gave intellectual credence to their views on the importance of educating for the new democratic age , as they perceived it , especially after 1918 . |
| 23 | Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew . |
| 24 | It was utterly dull and repetitive , day after day of filing for the Inland Revenue . |
| 25 | Choosing the best time to buy is not always possible , and sometimes the inconvenience of waiting for the right moment can cause more trouble than any financial saving may by worth . |
| 26 | ‘ And Zimbabwe have got a very good chance of qualifying for the African Nations Cup AND the World Cup . ’ |
| 27 | It was the young Scots ' first win in four outings and gave them an outside chance of qualifying for the latter stages of the championship . |
| 28 | He might have insisted , ‘ You can never recreate the feeling of winning for the first time , ’ but his palms were sweating with anticipation as the tapes went up . |
| 29 | A complete code of pleading for the High Court is in the High Court rules ( RSC Ord 18 and Ord 18 , r 12(1) as amended ) , which now requires pleadings to include , in relation to damages claims , details of any mitigation claimed by the defendant . |
| 30 | The solution was a simple one : employ priests with the sole responsibility of singing the memorial requiems so as to allow the parish priests to go about their customary role of caring for the spiritual needs of the living . |