Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [verb] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronald Li , the former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange , was convicted on Oct. 24 on two counts under the colony 's Bribery Prevention Ordinance of accepting preferential offers of shares in Cathay Pacific Airways and Novel Enterprises in 1986 and 1987 in return for helping to obtain listings for the companies on the stock exchange . |
| 2 | Sixteen men including three Liverpool Police officers were remanded on bail at Liverpool this week accused of conspiring to distribute tickets for the Irish sweepstake . |
| 3 | A wider segregation , in the sense of having specialised workers for the elderly , as has been achieved in many local social work teams , is also attractive . |
| 4 | There is no point in having to wait weeks for the concrete scaffolders , nor is there any point in having the site cluttered with pipes that are only to be needed later . |
| 5 | It is known that in the period following the deceased 's admission to Samuel Saye House the first defendant and Mr. Morgan were very active in trying to make arrangements for the deceased to make a new will . |
| 6 | By attempting to create rules for the exercise of power , the people subject to it have some hope of being able to control it and to make it legitimate in their own eyes . |