Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 20 of the next 30 years OCA and Wings Aviation Limited flew ‘ DRD out of Red Lake , using floats for the summer and Noorduyn-designed streamlined skis during the winter . |
| 2 | They were disputing strategies for the resistance and drinking red wine from France — sour claret , which had proved hard to sell . |
| 3 | Interviews conducted by Tamar Pitch with members of the committee revealed that the campaign 's objectives included increasing public awareness of the issue of sexual assault and gaining recognition for the principle that violence against women was a serious offence . |
| 4 | If someone who is offered an obviously forged check believes that if the issue is litigated a court will lay down a rule denying recovery for the future and apply that rule against him , he will not take the check in the first instance , and society will have the benefit of the better rule without actually paying the costs of litigation or incurring the disadvantages of bad commercial practice before the case is litigated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was that in no way was I going to bring a coffin from Stoke-on-Trent to Llandderfel on the roof-rack of a Metro and that they were driving north for the weekend and would stop off and pick it up on the way home . |
| 7 | There are quiet riverside nooks for meditation , wild flowers in the meadows and woodland glades , subjects galore for the artist and photographer , entrancing paths for the walker and a fine array of a score of challenging peaks for the mountaineer . |
| 8 | ‘ He is seeking compensation for the distress and inconvenience . ’ |
| 9 | Gordon , whose eldest son is a final year apprentice at the Preston site , is now seeking sponsors for the trip and added : ‘ It is a very worthwhile cause and I would be delighted to hear from anyone who can help . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Nichol represents the three men serving life for the killing and the family of a fourth who has died . |
| 11 | A girlfriend of John Cannan , now serving life for the abduction and murder of newlywed Shirley Banks , said he had talked of Suzy being raped there . |
| 12 | Oil is the most versatile , flexible and valuable of the primary fuels and part of the process of improved use of energy over the past decade has been for users to switch to other fuels to generate heat , thus saving oil for the transportation and speciality uses for which there are no cost effective substitutes . |
| 13 | Malaysia had been seeking endorsement for the EAEC and a programme of action for its implementation . |
| 14 | Now the taxation of the plaintiff 's bill of costs , came before master er and er in his taxation , it seems , and I 'm , I think I 'm right in saying it , it seems that erm there is no substantial dispute as to the particular items in the various bills of costs with which he was concerned , it maybe that if there were a discrepancy , he has , he dealt with it and nothing has been said before me today , er to suggest that the figures appearing in the bill of costs ought to be varied and accordingly I have not er have to consider the detail items in the bill of costs , the only issue I did n't decide is whether master was correct in disallowing interest for the period that he did , er Mr for the plaintiff says that he was wrong er that there was no good reason for disallowing him any interest and that accordingly I on this appeal should erm discharge or reverse that part of taxing order as disallowed interest . |
| 15 | They should then move on to inviting questions from the group to clarify understanding , posing questions to test that understanding , drawing implications for the practice and its clients , and developing an action plan to enhance client service in respect of those implications . |
| 16 | This plan of alternating narrative and poetic lyricism was , of course , the outline scheme for many of the older operas , using recitative for the narration and arias or choruses to expand on the emotional and poetic episodes . |
| 17 | Bill also had the happy knack of scoring goals for the Palace when goals were badly wanted . |
| 18 | The result is a mid-engined sports racing car for the road that borrows its styling from the Pininfarina Mythos . |
| 19 | In England any road leading to a port or a market was a royal road , and this indicates that royal interest was not confined to providing roads for the movement and provision of royal armies , but was concerned with trade and markets . |
| 20 | The British public is increasingly distrustful of industry on environmental issues and there is rising support for the idea that " the polluter pays " , according to Bob Worcester , chairman of market research firm MORI , which has been tracking attitudes to the environment since 1969 . |
| 21 | Now , however , the mounting body of research has reinstated horse behaviour as interesting per se , as well as providing guidelines for the welfare and handling of domestic horses . |
| 22 | In addition to providing help for the hiring and buying of cars , Motability also has a wheelchair hire scheme covering both manual and powered models . |
| 23 | There has been trouble with its chips , delays in providing disc-drives for the computer and a lack of software to run on it . |
| 24 | And then you started erm getting food for the chopping and grinding food for them . |
| 25 | It would be appreciated if researchers would make a habit of sending information for the Newsletter and the Research Database . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | Moreover , each patch has to be walked by two men : one providing cover for the other while he polices his beat , so that each spends only half of the shift on their particular area . |
| 28 | Teaching language for the literature and history of a country is a valuable and essential exercise but it is as different from teaching community interpreting as dressage is from steeple chasing . |
| 29 | ‘ Everyone is tipping Arsenal for the title and they have the best drilled team with some exciting strikers in Ian Wright , Paul Merson , Kevin Campbell and Anders Limpar , ’ said Waddle . |
| 30 | In Pfeiffer GmbH v. Arbuthnot Factors ( 1988 Q.B.D. ) , there was a clause retaining title for the seller and nevertheless authorising the buyer to make sub-sales . |