Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1469 , King Louis XI of France conferred with King Henry IV of Castile here ; in 1526 the captive King Francis I was exchanged for his two sons , who stood in for him as hostages with his great enemy , the Emperor Charles V ; in 1659 , the Peace of the Pyrenees between France and Spain was negotiated on the island ; and a year later , the contract of marriage was signed which consolidated that epoch-making treaty , between Louis XIV and the Infant a ( it was while helping to decorate the Spanish pavilion for the occasion that the painter Velázquez is said to have caught his death of cold ) . |
| 2 | I propel Rainbow towards her , but hang back myself , struggling to remember the proper formula for deflecting these desperate wanderers . |
| 3 | Care should , however , be taken where a section appears to confer no right of appeal , but that section is in fact linked to another section where a right of appeal exists ; e.g. under s.62 a licensing board may attach conditions to a grant or transfer of a licence and apparently there is no right of appeal against that section , but in Wallace v. Kyle and Carrick Licensing Board , 1979 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 12 , it was held that as s.62 was ancillary to s.10 under which licences were granted , an appeal was competent ; see also M. Milne v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 145 where an appeal against a decision by the clerk under 5.10(1) refusing to accept a late application for renewal was allowed in respect that the application related to a renewal of a licence under s.17(4) . |
| 4 | Apart from wanting to control the domestic demand for money , there is another reason why the Bank of England sometimes alters interest rates . |
| 5 | I 'm all in favour of the Government seeking to get the best value for money , but HMSO is not a private company . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm looking to develop a National Series for Trail Quest competitions by 1993 . |
| 7 | It may well be that the rise in UK candidates wanting to take the Foreign Languages for Industry and Commerce ( FLIC ) examination is a positive response to the challenge of an increasingly open Europe . |
| 8 | In seeking to formulate an adequate policy for liberal adult education in rural areas , the demarcation between Chapters II and III over course provision was patently unrealistic . |
| 9 | Mr Newton , choosing his words carefully , said the Government would ‘ certainly ensure the needs and interests of western Grampian and Argyll and Bute are taken fully into account at the same time as seeking to achieve the best outcome for the Highlands and Islands ’ . |
| 10 | Since we last wrote , we have been lobbying to achieve the same relaxation for voluntary drivers from sport as is proposed to be granted to those driving in a voluntary capacity for charities . |
| 11 | The new Sun was clearly going to provide a Conservative voice for the tabloid market and would eat further into its declining sales , so the Sketch died a quiet and unsurprising death . |
| 12 | The CANZ series , which this years sees the Canadians hosted by Otago ( Dunedin , March 22 ) , North Harbour ( Auckland , March 25 ) , North Auckland ( Whangarei , March 28 ) and Waikato ( Hamilton , March 31 ) is going to provide an interesting test for a squad that features eight original World Cup choices . |
| 13 | The Japanese were not going to win a short war for control of oil and other natural resources in south-east Asia . |
| 14 | Now we 're going to do a similar exercise for the ribber . |
| 15 | Look , are you going to do the sensible thing for once and come in out of the rain ? |
| 16 | Well Kerry 's going to do the same thing for twenty four . |
| 17 | In what follows I am going to use a general procedure for reading texts to examine specific features of racist discourse to be found in ‘ Fighting talk ’ and ‘ The last laugh ’ and to suggest a series of questions which they raise as an agenda for further research and debate . |
| 18 | We 're going to put the whole exhibition for the day there , so they can see the kinds of ways that women have got jobs and the kinds of training that they 've had to get to get them . |
| 19 | He 's going to build a new organ for Chelmsford cathedral . |
| 20 | He was going to build a new place for her . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Our original proposal was for 840 acres but we 're now going to file an amended proposal for 750 acres , ’ he said . |
| 22 | After the tax had been abolished and the boycott lifted , Rank compounded his incompetence by deciding to keep the best playdates for his mix of low-budget featurettes and big-budget pictures . |
| 23 | I would simply suggest that we should not allow either sentimentality or a genuine concern for retaining decentralized powers in general to distract us from the major , and separate , task of attempting to determine a common policy for all education at all stages in the future . |
| 24 | Similar considerations would also be required when attempting to consider the competing demands for investment between government departments , such as between state education and the National Health Service or between public sector housing and defence . |
| 25 | He says you have to be realistic and who 's going to pay a million pounds for a player who 's thirty in october . |
| 26 | And I 'm haunted by the fear that we 're going to pay a hefty price for ignoring the claims of Kenny Benjamin and Anderson Cummins . |
| 27 | What assurances can the Minister give that in attempting to develop a common requirement for a new air defence frigate we shall not end up with another fiasco of expensive and fruitless bickering between countries with different design requirements ? |
| 28 | I 'm going to have a nice steak for my tea tonight and then it 's dancing with the missus . |
| 29 | no , he comes with Nigel who 's that your with ? , hello , alright ? , well no because I 've got a back ache , oh how was your day ? , well the Skipton Building Society are a pain in the arse are you not going to say a bloody word for the rest of the evening , he 's gon na sit with his hand on his neck and I shall shoot him |
| 30 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |