Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun sg] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | If they did , however , then Stefan Edberg , the world 's leading tennis player , would surely be a candidate for opening batsman for the test team . |
2 | After providing music for the Druid Theatre 's production of Behan 's ‘ The Hostage ’ , she was invited to join Johnny McDonagh 's new group Arcady , and subsequently toured the world for eighteen months with The Waterboys , as well as contributing to their ‘ Room To Roam ’ album . |
3 | He was attacked and stabbed in the chest in the town centre , after playing rugby for the college team . |
4 | After making provision for the payment of their debts and funeral expenses , they then proceeded to the disposal of their worldly goods . |
5 | Mr Richardson applied for outline permission to build the chalets after winning approval for a hotel and golf complex at Humbleton . |
6 | After advising counsel for the government that Washington could not keep on withholding relevant evidence , Chief Judge Platt ordered the government to produce all documents relating to how and where the bomb was placed on Flight 103 for inspection in camera by 1 October 1990 . |
7 | This potential increase of reporting rape incidents became the main rationale for seeking anonymity for the victim . |
8 | Designed for office dictation use , this machine followed Edison 's preferred method of using electricity for the motor , but it had acoustic recording and reproduction . |
9 | For Martin Brundle now , the desperate job of maintaining enthusiasm for the remainder of the world championships , while the desperate need of finding a new seat hangs over him . |
10 | The immense size of the problem is obvious and the cost of maintaining information for the future is large , but it seems likely that the benefits will outweigh the costs . |
11 | It was also tied into the whole range of English Romantic landscape painting , especially Turner , in terms of oozing love for the material and not being afraid to enjoy the application of paint . |
12 | A further consequence of a rather haphazard system of acquiring information for the recommendation of schools was a suspicion on the part of some headteachers that the invitation to participate was based on personal contacts and the preferences and prejudices of , for example , the local inspector . |
13 | With a plan of gaining experience for a couple of years then broadening his horizons by moving overseas , Roy came to Craigforth for an interview . |
14 | European Ryder Cup hopefuls Barry Lane , David Gilford and Steven Richardson considerably improved their chances of gaining selection for the match against the United States at The Belfry in September with top-six finishes in the Lancia Martini Italian Open at Modena . |
15 | Planting new churches is one clear way of gaining ground for the kingdom of God . |
16 | He wished to be advised about the possibility of seeking compensation for an assault by his neighbour , for which he had received hospital treatment . |
17 | Dyson then went about the task of enlisting support for the organisation , a process which was successful , as can be seen from the thirty-three signatories ( including Lord Attlee , the Bishops of Birmingham and Exeter , Isaiah Berlin , Julian Huxley , Bertrand Russell ) to the letter that appeared in The Times in March 1958 . |
18 | ( i ) Ballot At the start of each session , all Members wishing to promote legislation ( or , more realistically , wishing to avail themselves of the opportunity of securing publicity for a cause ) may enter their names on a ballot . |
19 | Political intervention was often the only means of securing permission for the sale of a commission to another . |
20 | Instead of measuring volatility for a sequence of non-overlapping periods ( days , say ) , as have previous authors , Park and Sears calculated volatility for the remaining period to delivery . |
21 | Others were more conveniently sited for them but inconveniently for the Company , as a condition of selling land for the railway . |
22 | In general , research suggests that in the immediate wake of unexpected news of a major loss , such as finding oneself permanently disabled after a car accident , denial may also , in the short term , be an adaptive response as a means of buying time for the individual ( Adams and Lindemann , 1974 ) . |
23 | Hazlitt found the humbler job of reporting parliament for the Morning Chronicle ; we find him describing how one MP rose to a parliamentary occasion by ‘ soaring into mediocrity , ’ a joke any modern sketchwriter would be proud to use and probably has . |
24 | This makes it easier for the customer to move to a larger model in the range as his requirements increase , and eases the manufacturer 's problem of providing software for a number of different computers . |
25 | So she has to find another way of providing music for the midnight service . |
26 | The price to urban consumers of bearing the losses incurred ( probably of the order of 2 per cent of their bills ) would have been considered by many to be an acceptable concession to the aspirations of country dwellers , and perhaps few would have endorsed the complaint by a contemporary free-market economist that ‘ a slum dweller has to contribute to the cost of providing electricity for a country mansion ’ . |
27 | Initially concerned with the advancement of these aims through the provision of low cost holidays abroad , rapid early success led to the extension of operations to the home market with publicity material stressing the proletarian nature of the enterprise : ‘ Trips for the workers ; Holidays to suit all pockets ’ ; ‘ What Cooks have done in the way of facilitating travel for the upper-middle and middling-middle classes , the WTA are arranging to do for the masses . ’ |
28 | But it 's not a question of holding office for the sake of holding office . |
29 | But still the habit of flying north for the summer persisted among the birds and it has remained to this day , even though the journey is no longer a few miles , but several hundred . |
30 | It would be appreciated if researchers would make a habit of sending information for the Newsletter and the Research Database . |