Example sentences of "and [adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At best Gould was callous and ungenerous in ensuring that he did not receive the praise he deserved ; at worst he was deliberately playing on Lear 's weakness , and jealously guarding the limelight for his most ambitious publication to date . |
| 2 | An exhibition can be viewed as a means of getting noticed and attracting publicity and contracts : as a rare chance of seeing a good deal of your recent work together and thus creating an opportunity for self-evaluation and an assessment of the way your work is developing ; and , by no means least , as a way of selling work . |
| 3 | Membership of the European exchange rate mechanism is seen as the main constraint on all parties , holding back growth and thus reducing the scope for popular moves to cut taxes or increase public spending . |
| 4 | On July 9 a new city council of Milan was elected , replacing the council which had resigned in May [ see p. 38896 ] , and thus avoiding the need for new elections . |
| 5 | By implication , the Labour Party was seen as supporting unions , and thus having no respect for the rule of law . |
| 6 | You you you used to break windows but it was n't done like you see now people , kids s picking up bricks and just breaking a window for the sheer delight of it . |
| 7 | But unsparing in his pressing of points he thought vital , and eternally urging the need for money . |
| 8 | Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police . |
| 9 | ( Subsequently , the government proposed exempting the mentally ill and elderly people living in homes and hospitals ; and also allowing a discount for students and the less well off ; see Paying for Local Government-the Community Charge , 1986 . ) |
| 10 | The winners , and also retaining the shield for a second year , were the team from the Sacred Heart , Cheadle Heath , who donated their £100 winnings to the Little Sisters of the Poor . |
| 11 | It surveys eleven contemporary approaches , evaluating them fairly and positively sketching the desiderata for an integral Christology ( see Fitzmyer , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | To do so would put the management team at risk of losing their employment , and even facing a claim for damages if the release of the information caused financial loss to the business . |
| 13 | The intention is to preserve these original documents for posterity by microfilming them and then providing the microfilm for public use . |
| 14 | Help for problems in relationships comes from recognising that one needs to learn to go through the pain of disillusion , that follows initial idealisation , in order to reach the enlightenment of a mutually respectful lasting relationship , rather than following the repeated pattern of giving up and then renewing the search for a fresh " ideal " . |
| 15 | The cases where there is the most sustained coverage are acquittals and yet obtaining an acquittal for this group of offences is a comparatively rare phenomenon , both as a proportion of cases reported in newspapers and what actually happens in the court . |
| 16 | At the end of the Jan. 21 ANC meeting Nzo issued a statement reflecting no change in the organization 's stance on conditions for entering negotiations , and again reaffirming the need for armed struggle . |