Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [v-ing] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest capital spending review could result in a near 20 p.c. cut in total investment to $6½ billion ( £3.7 billion ) against $8 billion ( £4.6 billion ) last year although after allowing for the purchase of Petromed in Spain the figure is nearer 7 p.c . |
| 2 | The massive exodus of the rural populace to towns in Spain or abroad , which began in earnest towards the end of the 1950s , bore witness to the priority given , in the Francoist scale of values , to preserving the patrimony of the strong , rather than to caring for the welfare of the weak . |
| 3 | If the view is taken that ‘ civil disputes are a matter of private concern of the parties involved , and may even be regarded as their private property … and that the parties are themselves the best judges of how to pursue and serve their own interests in the conduct and control of their respective cases , free from the directions of or intervention by the court , ’ forms of alternative dispute resolution must be considered as worth pursuing for the control that is provided to the parties over their dispute . |
| 4 | This amendment permits preparers of financial statements , where they consider it appropriate in their particular circumstances , to use the same recognition criteria for the tax implications of pensions and other post-retirement benefits as in accounting for the obligations to provide those benefits . |
| 5 | Paragraph 32A permits preparers of financial statements , where they consider it appropriate in their particular circumstances , to use the same recognition criteria for the deferred tax implications of pensions and other post-retirement benefits as in accounting for the obligations to provide those benefits . |