Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Composers of new hymn tunes should be discouraged from writing for a traditional text which is either wedded to a well-loved tune or has more than one good tune to which it may be sung . |
| 2 | ANARAP is also committed to campaigning for a better legal environment for community radios . |
| 3 | The structure plan can not be seen for providing for a major or sudden change in direction . |
| 4 | And what we 've got in standing for a general election is about two and a half thousand men and about five hundred women . |
| 5 | My hon. Friends and I feel justified in asking for a special debate to call attention to the ridiculous fact that , at Humberstone , which is part of the EDDR route , a mile of new road costing £1.5 million has stood finished and unopened for over a year , while the county and city councils argue about a proposed route by the side of the clinic on Scraptoft lane through a recreation area which happens to be owned by the city council . |
| 6 | I knew players like the incomparable Joe Davis and I doubt if he did any more training than is entailed in going for a long walk . |
| 7 | So , my father ended by fighting for a different cause from the one he had volunteered to defend . |
| 8 | When bought in large pieces , such hams may be further enhanced by baking for a short time in a hot oven with a glaze of either honey , ginger syrup , marmalade mixed with orange juice or fruit syrups . |
| 9 | A cost saving was achieved by opting for a bored pile retaining wall on the north side , thus avoiding the need to divert the 20-way British Telecom ducts running parallel to the underpass . |
| 10 | In addition to the two-year probation order , Ironside was banned from driving for a further two years . |
| 11 | The computational modelling approach will ‘ parallel distributed processing ’ architectures , and will be aimed at counting for a wide variety of existing empirical data . |