Example sentences of "[v-ing] for [noun] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowing for inflation the total budget for L E A's this year is around seventeen point five billion pounds , nearly sixteen percent more than last year . |
| 2 | After allowing for inflation the net income of the City within this category ( which excludes interest and dividends received ) tripled between 1966 and 1977 , but then it was almost stationary until rising by a further 20 per cent in the three years preceding 1983 . |
| 3 | Slopes had become the focus for revived interest since 1950 ( Strahler , 1950b ) and had been the subject for quantitative description and analysis ( Bakker and Le Heux , 1952 ) and then for measurements which could lead to measurements in specific areas using for example the Young Pit ( Young , 1960 ) and providing many indications of rates of erosion ( A. Young , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | In Ethiopia , as in India , the role of the informal producer is not distinct from the mainstream of the economy , but is in fact a key part of it , producing for instance the home-spun cloth worn by most Ethiopian women . |
| 5 | His trunk swelled up to resemble that of a baobab tree , matching for bulk the whitewashed curvature of the charcoal oven that dominated the restaurant . |
| 6 | If this happens at night , go to ground , shelter yourself as best you can and go looking for help the next day unless you 're likely to freeze to death in the meantime . |
| 7 | ( Miranda was n't very big , and she was looking for people the same size as her . ) |
| 8 | His evidence is as follows , retaining for convenience the original paragraph numbers : |
| 9 | Taking for example the nuclear power plant control room , the question is whether the desk operators should be expected to cope with all emergencies which appear within the total information presentation or whether , for complex and dangerous situations , a more senior person such as the shift-charge engineer should be called upon to make the decisions . |
| 10 | The reception was held at the Mansion House in Harrow Weald , where the couple spent a romantic wedding night , leaving for Mexico the next morning . |
| 11 | My wife was working for Cossors the electronic company and they moved to Harlow and er , it , in order for her to retain her job , we had to move to Harlow as well . |