Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [v-ing] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An essential element in job creation is the provision of training for school leavers and retraining for the long term unemployed . |
| 2 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 3 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 4 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 5 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 6 | Half way up , Springsteen shot through his legs and passed me at about Mach 5 , doing a handbrake turn at the bottom of the stairs and heading for the back door . |
| 7 | But much of Operation Gemini is about surveilance , observing known criminals and waiting for the right time to move in and make arrests , of which there have been more than a hundred and twenty since the operation started four weeks ago . |
| 8 | But it 's the fact that the guy gave erm , my friend Billy , erm , died a few years ago , erm , but they , they were like best mates and they used to ju just encourage each other to like , jump on a train and come up to London , and start going in all the hospitals and praying for the sick and things like that . |
| 9 | Issues like food additives do concern me but I 'm just not sure whether it 's worth worrying — I usually end up following my own instincts and hoping for the best . ’ |
| 10 | When we have left behind the turbulence of adolescence and shed some of the more harrowing demands of responsibility for making careers and caring for the next generation , we may seek opportunities to assess our lives and face its later stages with some serenity . |