Example sentences of "and [prep] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Medical Association led an attack on the eugenists for confusing undesirable behaviour with mental deficiency and for advocating sterilisation of the feeble-minded . |
| 2 | Since he was also responsible for teaching a weekly class of seven young women at Lady Margaret Hall ( a women 's college in North Oxford ) and for teaching philosophy to the undergraduates of Magdalen , his first few years at the College were strenuous . |
| 3 | There are options for producing headlines , for using different typefaces and for positioning text on the screen . |
| 4 | Janet was a pupil of the well-respected Professor Charcot ( 1825–1893 ) , who was responsible for founding the Salpêtrière School of Hypnotism in France and for bringing credibility to the subject . |
| 5 | They were , in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , responsible for the general management of this category of Crown properties — for the felling of timber in the forests for the Royal Navy , for repairs to Crown property , for royal gifts to subjects , or for sale ; for dealing with claims to customary rights in the Forest , for paying the keepers ' wages and for providing hay for the deer in times of scarcity . |
| 6 | According to Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine , the committee will be responsible for advising the government on issues such as environmental regulation , and for providing guidance to the business community . |
| 7 | Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets . |
| 8 | Team briefing is our main vehicle for communicating information about the company and for obtaining feed-back through the organisation . |
| 9 | But that was what he was being paid for and after hearing Mobuto at the United Nations he was now more determined than ever to ensure his safety . |
| 10 | As before there were considerations of restricting overall investment to physical availability of materials , and of maintaining leverage over the nationalised industries as part of Keynesian demand management in the economy ( allowing greater expenditure when a slump threatened and reining it in when the economy appeared to be overheating ) . |
| 11 | Perhaps nothing better illustrates the difficulties of trying to establish the truth of such a tradition and of achieving accuracy in the dating of events in the lives of scholars of the early Ottoman period than the problem presented by the death date of Cemaleddin Aksarayi . |
| 12 | The President has the responsibility of supervising the overall operation of SSATs , as well as of organizing meetings , training courses and of preparing material for the guidance of SSATs . |
| 13 | It was described as being ‘ … as black as a luger barrel ’ ; as being able to bring ‘ … polite conversation round to the subject of violence and warfare ’ ; as accusing the Georgian terraces of Bath ( where it was exhibited ) of daydreaming , and of making reference to the military hardware stored in the ancient subterranean quarries beneath the city . |
| 14 | He then gave a press conference in which he launched a fierce attack upon the Democrats , accusing them of failing to produce any deficit reduction proposals and of playing politics with the budget issue . |
| 15 | To summarise , the court 's policy is strongly in favour of upholding contractual dispute procedures , and against allowing access to the courts where contractually agreed disputes procedures alternative to the court have not failed : see 13.14.4 . |
| 16 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |
| 17 | High internal work motivation and satisfaction result from experiencing meaningfulness and responsibility from the work , and from obtaining knowledge about the actual results of the work activities . |
| 18 | Better-than-expected trade figures and increasing optimism that UK interest rates may start to fall from their current 15 per cent level , perhaps as early as next spring , helped fuel a 23.9 point rise in the index to 2,422.7 — within four points of the year 's high of 2,426 established just before the mini-crash in October and within hailing distance of the all-time high of 2,443.4 , established on July 16 , 1987 . |
| 19 | And in taking prey for the first time he had found courage . |
| 20 | The inefficiency of State power in regulating development and in providing guidance for the future was compared unfavourably with more adaptive private market intelligence . |
| 21 | The purpose of this research is to analyse the role that commodity taxes ( VAT and excise duties ) can play both in raising government revenue and in redistributing income towards the poorer sections of society , taking account of the fact that households differ widely in their size and composition . |
| 22 | The Zimbabwean forces , thought to number about 6,000 , had played an important role in countering the MNR threat , and in securing access to the sea for Zimbabwean exports . |
| 23 | With a good break for lunch they came out fully recharged and in fighting spirit for the afternoon 's W. Byers Shield , a competition based on the Stableford system . |
| 24 | Both sides also committed themselves to achieving free trade in services and to beginning work on the harmonization of business , competition , securities and investment law . |
| 25 | So I am used to that process of working as a team and to delegating responsibility to the team and then of course monitoring and checking the results of the team . |
| 26 | It would be a stronger party because it would win popular support from all sections of the unionism by advocating equitable social and economic policies and by removing power from the undependable unionist élites . |
| 27 | In fact they are highly competent and by taking advantage of the desire of some of them to work part-time he can use their experience as and when , for instance , they want to return to work after having children . |
| 28 | There was n't a working shower and I had to clean off my make-up with cold-cream and by splashing water from the sink over myself . |
| 29 | Over the last 25 years , Bradford University has set out to serve society through excellence in teaching and research , by advancing learning and by applying knowledge for the benefit of all . |
| 30 | ‘ It is the role of the court to safeguard the child 's welfare from inappropriate or unnecessary use of secure accommodation , both by satisfying itself that those making the application have demonstrated that the statutory criteria in section 25(1) or regulation 6 , as appropriate , have been met and by having regard to the provisions and principles of section 1 of the Act . |