Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The museum houses the collection built up by the industrialist Josef Mueller who started purchasing objects for their aesthetic qualities in Europe after the First World War . |
| 2 | Malcolm Goodson of Cyprio explains ‘ We have had great difficulty in satisfying orders for our new model UVC . |
| 3 | We can find justifying arguments for its ethical contents , even if we could not come to them on our own . |
| 4 | This normally involves either the United Association for the Protection of Trade ( UAPT ) , a non-profit organisation keeping records for its 12,000 members , or Credit Data ( CD ) , a commercial firm . |
| 5 | Lydia had intended to spend the next few weeks alone attempting to eradicate these shafts of reminiscence , determined not to follow the common course and go round seeking replacements for her lost love : an undignified and doom-laden procedure , leading to recriminations and disgust . |
| 6 | Mr Wright , who lives at Hedgerows , Harleston Road , is seeking sponsors for his planned jump and has already received donations from his former employer , Thames Valley Eggs , and from the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society . |
| 7 | ‘ It is the question of guides overbolting routes for their own convenience , and the extensive use of radios . |
| 8 | A person buying and selling investments for their own account . |
| 9 | While Dostoevsky was interested in the noble Moor and the jealousy question , he will also have been pondering ghost-reasons for his own villain . |
| 10 | You thought that you had problems halvard … on the teletext yesterday it said that agencies in Ireland were selling tickets for their 3 games at a staggering 250 quid each ! ! |
| 11 | Members of the European Parliament have endorsed EC Commission plans for an ‘ immense ’ programme for testing chemicals for their environmental risks — but they fear that this will lead to a proliferation of tests involving animals . |
| 12 | However during 1625–8 Lanier was in Italy , buying pictures for his royal master , and after his return composed an indisputable recitative on the subject of Hero and Leander , ‘ Nor com'st thou yet , my slothful love ’ and a varied-strophe aria , ‘ No more shall meads ’ . |
| 13 | She has asked friends to make a donation to the hospice movement instead of buying presents for her 80th birthday . |
| 14 | Likewise , when China had trouble getting guests for its national day celebrations on 1 October , the 40th anniversary of Communist rule , East Germany was again glad to oblige , along with hardline stalwarts such as Cuba , North Korea , Czechoslovakia and three African countries : the Comoros , Kenya and Burundi . |
| 15 | Now it seems reasonable to suggest that the competence/performance distinction might also mark the division of responsibility between syllabus and methodology , with the former specifying the knowledge to be acquired and the latter providing conditions for its behavioural realization . |
| 16 | Good support was provided to WOS with positioning services for its major cable route surveys in the region . |
| 17 | Perhaps there is a feeling that once more we should make a point of giving thanks for our plentiful water supply . |
| 18 | Two other works with which Eliot linked Malory 's ‘ profound , tribal , Sophoclean morality ’ were to form starting points for his own plays ; Aeschylus ' Tragedy of the House of Atreus and Sophocles ' Oedipus at Colonus underlie respectively The Family Reunion and The Elder Statesman . |
| 19 | It 's superficially puzzling , then , that , right from the outset , the broadcasters placed so much stress on a single night : the BBC started running trailers for its 9 April coverage on day zero , with David Dimbleby mysteriously promising viewers ‘ a journey of discovery ’ . |
| 20 | Here it is hoped that pupils will learn to realise that there are difficulties involved in growing up and taking responsibilities for their own decisions . |
| 21 | However , there is a distinction between admiration for the productive capacity of capitalism , the sense of which has always lain behind working-class hopes for the future because of a realization of the enormous capacity of the forces of production , and a kind of shocked acceptance of the innovative capacity of capital as a social force in creating conditions for its continued reproduction . |
| 22 | Major straightening of the Mississippi in the 1930s , largely for navigation purposes , is still creating problems for its present-day managers over hundreds of miles . |
| 23 | Wages always fell , never rose ; those in the coasting trade from £pound10 to £pound2 15s a voyage , so far that " there was a prospect of Seamen sailing ships for their mere food " . |
| 24 | They included taking lessons for her advanced driving test , watercolour painting and gardening . |
| 25 | This continued into adult life and he had a habit of creating nicknames for his closest friends : Anjelica became Tootie , Beatty became the Pro , John McEnroe was Johnniemac , etc . |
| 26 | All those decision making activities for which relevant information existed only in implicit form were carried out exclusively by experts . |
| 27 | In his biography of John Wesley the by then very conservative Robert Southey warned : Perhaps the manner in which Methodism has familiarized the lower classes to the work of combining in associations , making rules for their own governance , raising funds , and communicating from one part of the kingdom to another , may be reckoned among the incidental evils which have arisen from it . |
| 28 | ‘ I know , I was making plans for my own wedding , but then you wo n't want to know about that . |
| 29 | Well , I 'm finding homes for them this time . |
| 30 | He never liked making excuses for his wealthy background . |