Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could you possibly enjoy yourself if that meant taking time off praying for the holy souls ? |
| 2 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |
| 3 | Times of night visits , proportion performed by deputies , and trend in number of night visits after adjusting for the increased hours during which visits are claimed . |
| 4 | Ian 's mother-in-law , Mrs Jan Waller , is in charge of catering for the four walkers and 17 back-up crew . |
| 5 | The fourth aim of catering for the different levels of ability is more likely to be teacher-dependent . |
| 6 | For Scotland it 's now a case of rebuilding for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 7 | Offer it up , people said : offer everything up , the happy times too , it 's all part of praying for the holy souls . |
| 8 | ‘ And Zimbabwe have got a very good chance of qualifying for the African Nations Cup AND the World Cup . ’ |
| 9 | Several hundred people from Northern Ireland are expected to cross the Atlantic to support the Republic 's team , who are virtually assured of qualifying for the final stages after their 2–0 defeat of Lithuania in Dublin on Wednesday . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This does n't seem a fair way of qualifying for the huge incentives on offer for a record . ’ |
| 12 | In the first place , instead of searching for the long-term consequences of early family experiences , a switch has taken place to the study of immediate effects . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This must be what shooting a film was like : the brightly lit scene , the ennui of waiting for the chief actors to appear tile brief moments of activity , the concentrated attention to detail . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ We also have a proud tradition of recruiting for the armed forces . |
| 16 | Vivien is not alone in thinking that the European professionals are making a mistake in looking for the same privileges and superstar treatment that is nowadays meted out to their American sisters . |
| 17 | Many of these occur in the Cambrian — it is as if the echinoderms tried out various designs before settling for the successful models that mostly survive today . |
| 18 | Probably the best-known , and perhaps the most notorious , selected settlement policy is that adopted in County Durham , where there were special difficulties in planning for the dispersed villages that had grown up in the coalfield ( Barr 1969 ; Blowers 1972 ) . |
| 19 | I recognise that we have a great deal of work to do in planning for the next steps in taking our strategy forward . |
| 20 | WE CALL UPON ALL THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO JOIN US IN WORKING FOR THE FOLLOWING GOALS : |
| 21 | He slams the company 's parking proposals as ‘ wholly inadequate ’ to catering for the extra visitors . |
| 22 | Joyce was committed to providing for the two daughters of his first marriage , to whom he was a conscientious father , as well as supporting his second wife . |
| 23 | There is , as I said , a section on sketching for the applied arts like jewellery , fashion and theatre . |
| 24 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 25 | Even if your students are studying Business English without working for the LCCI exams , Written English for Business offers a varied selection of realistic Business English writing tasks . |
| 26 | The same sort of approaches were adopted for cycling for the same reasons . |
| 27 | That means not only that the BA could save money , but that it could make a bob or two by catering for the assembled hacks . |
| 28 | Most of the time is consumed by waiting for the various processes of typesetting , page design and layout , proofing and so on to occur . |
| 29 | By opting for the positive foods over the negative ones , you 'll also be well on your way to keeping your calories in check without really trying . |