Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] for the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pantograph car 167 was first to leave Blackpool in 1962 , but is returning fully-restored for the Centenary in 1985 . |
| 2 | A 30-strong team has worked around the clock since midnight on Saturday to build the stage and seating area for the hall in readiness for the sell-out performance , which starts at 7.30pm this evening . |
| 3 | But none the less the community is expressing support for the FDR-FMLN in ways which it is really surprising to see . |
| 4 | In the first case a woman is seeking compensation for the death in 1962 of her 10-month-old daughter from leukaemia ; the girl 's father worked as a fitter at Sellafield for nearly 30 years and has since also died of cancer . |
| 5 | He did indeed return , in disguise and as a fugitive , seeking shelter for the night in 1646 when the war was lost . |
| 6 | The former Irish international , acting skipper for the day in the absence of Jeffrey Clarke , blasted a stunning hat-trick in 17 first-half minutes in the title decider against Banbridge at Olympia . |
| 7 | An Australian schoolteacher in Hawaii wanting to write a story on the States invading Panama for The Times in London . |
| 8 | A licensing board may make regulations with respect to the making of applications for licences ( including occasional licences and occasional permissions ) , extension of permitted hours and restriction of the terminal permitted hours and the procedure following thereon , and such regulations may include provisions designed to assist the board in determining the fitness of applicants to hold licences and the expediency of granting licences for the premises in respect of which application is made ; and the board may also make regulations with respect to the procedure to be followed in transferring licences under this Act and with respect to any matters which , by virtue of this Act , may be prescribed . |
| 9 | But he warned that poorly constructed facilities were presenting problems for the industry in the future . |
| 10 | ‘ Naturally , we are very aggrieved at the incident and are considering citing Jones for the incident in the tackle . ’ |
| 11 | The king seemed to regard Stratford 's conduct of government as tantamount to treachery , and the king 's supporters issued a statement , the Libellus Famosus , denouncing his conduct of government during the king 's absence and declaring that the delay in providing money for the army in Flanders had arisen from the fault , or the neglect , or even the malice of the archbishop . |
| 12 | They were , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , responsible for the general management of this category of Crown properties — for the felling of timber in the forests for the Royal Navy , for repairs to Crown property , for royal gifts to subjects , or for sale ; for dealing with claims to customary rights in the Forest , for paying the keepers ' wages and for providing hay for the deer in times of scarcity . |
| 13 | Mr Zivkovic , a draughtsman who lived in Britain for 24 years after the war but now lives in Tasmania , Australia , was giving evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations by Mr Nikolai Tolstoy and Mr Nigel Watts that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs . |
| 14 | It is like the Lord Chief Justice giving evidence for the defence in an appeal case . |
| 15 | Condensation might entail the one kind of subject and/or manifestation standing in for the whole domain of evil , incurring responsibility for the whole in the process of being made to signify it . |
| 16 | Once fresh structures have been achieved , new modes of looking may also evolve , themselves evoking pleasure for the way in which awareness is enriched and extended . |
| 17 | As already mentioned , the unit undertakes target towing work for the Army in the region — No 35 's first C-47TP was so equipped . |
| 18 | The analysis needs to be developed , for example in the treatment of uncertainty , information , and market power , and these factors may have quite far reaching implications for the way in which we view the general equilibrium of the economy . |
| 19 | Two army officers had been sentenced to prison terms for an attack on unarmed demonstrators in Santiago Atitlán in December 1990 , when 16 were killed and 24 wounded [ see p. 37912 ] , and another army officer was awaiting trial for the murder in September 1990 of anthropologist Myrna Mack [ see p. 37707 ] . |
| 20 | Reorganising the Home Corner can involve sorting of this kind , putting things for the kitchen in one area and things for the bedroom in another . |
| 21 | As the two treatment groups were not identical in severity of disease at the start of the trial , an analysis of covariance , with corresponding confidence intervals , was used to compare each measure between the groups after treatment , making adjustments for the differences in severity of disease before treatment as measured by the corresponding baseline measurement . |
| 22 | Dr Kanter is not making allowances for the disparity in actual numbers , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Finally , as in England , the MSC in Wales , together with the further education colleges , is busily making preparations for the introduction in September 1983 of the Youth Training Scheme , a programme which will greatly increase the pressure on the colleges , to provide suitable courses of further education . |
| 24 | To achieve this they pursued tight monetary policies which in many cases involved setting targets for the growth in money supply . |
| 25 | Alice Berwicke , visiting Plymouth for the association in 1881 , found reclamation and educational work in full swing in the local branch . |
| 26 | Mindful of recent events in Wales and following publicity for the scheme in your pages , I contacted the Tactical Booking Cell four days before a planned photographic detail in Northumberland , to be conducted with a friend . |