Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Baldry 's plans include bringing in stricter requirements for the care and housing of live birds , and introducing new checks on all imports . |
| 2 | Defence Secretary Rifkind is reported to be grateful for support from the fourteen military minded Conservatives whose confidential letter to the Prime Minister was somehow left lying on a copying machine for a Labour researcher to find , but he is irritated by the leak , an insider murmurs that Malcolm 's notching up black marks for the future . |
| 3 | My puzzled parents welcomed me home and , after a reassuring three months tearing up confidential papers for the Civil Service , I joined the staff of Emanuel School , London , in January 1954 . |
| 4 | So are America and the Soviet Union , to the extent that they wasted too much energy signing up local partners for the cold war instead of organising a local peace . |
| 5 | ‘ Good , now I just want you to save me and yourself a lot of trouble by filling in this form for the Red Cross . ’ |
| 6 | Erm , there 's always some blank spaces there , so I use those for writing up key goals for the month . |
| 7 | I fancied seeking out some Synodontis for the new tank , and they are rather prone to burning their scaleless skin by trying to hide under a standard heaterstat . |
| 8 | The effort of yielding a good crop of grapes expends a great amount of the vine 's energy and its roots will be active over the winter months searching out fresh supplies for the next year 's growth . |
| 9 | The gelding had already struck three times out of four in novice events , two at Kempton , before going off 5/2 favourite for the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 10 | This Partnership will be charged with drawing up specific goals for the Compact and planning a structure to implement their achievement . |
| 11 | Preparations also include two consultations for church leaders and communicators and for technicians which will take place in 1993 with the aim of drawing up clear guidelines for the agency . |
| 12 | ‘ Initial work has focused on infrastructure improvements to track and bridges , but we are already drawing up detailed specifications for the locomotives and coaching stock , which will be introduced on this flagship service in the next few years , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The first day of each survey was crucial in sorting out minor problems for the interviewers which only came to be recognized once the fieldwork was under way . |
| 14 | It is a place of confluence , quite noisily so I imagine in winter or during the melting season , for rivers splash down into Arreau from east , west and south , at least four of them , with the Neste d'Aure here taking on more water for the journey north . |
| 15 | The prospect of handing over total responsibility for the care of the most vulnerable people in society to such local authorities was felt by some to be profoundly disquieting . |
| 16 | The question to be considered is whether and to what extent laying down such requirements for the registration of fishing vessels is compatible with Community law and in particular with articles 7 , 52 and 221 of the E.E.C . |
| 17 | This provided a series of standardized measures against which to evaluate individual Projects , while at the same time laying down broader objectives for the whole Programme . |
| 18 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 19 | It was , Mr. Langley submitted , for the very reason that section 39 overrode confidence that the provisions of sections 82 to 84 were incorporated by Parliament , laying down careful guidelines for the preservation of confidence by the recipients of information under the Act , subject to specified exceptions . |
| 20 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 21 | In this chapter we propose to deal with the arrangement of passages for various combinations of woodwind and horns , but before doing this we will deal with the question of laying out full chords for the wind . |
| 22 | And the late-night sessions at wordprocessors , battling out new texts for the debate at the next day 's session : and the culturally diverse evenings in the bar … ah , tiring stuff ! |