Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Davies , who leaves behind a lower paid £85,000 at the commission , conceded he would have little difficulty in signing up for the business priorities agreed by the CBI 's governing council for the incoming government . |
| 2 | They should have been brought back to see what they do in saving more for the government , and all the extra work they 've caused . |
| 3 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 4 | ‘ In our position , there is no point in sitting back for a draw . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There would be no point in setting out for a star if you did n't know how far away it was . ’ |
| 6 | Seeing no conflict of interest in this , or any serious ethical problem in working covertly for the DEA , Mills joined the rest of the press corps on Hurley 's freelance payroll and subsequently turned in some useful photo coverage of illegal port facilities in Lebanon . |