Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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1 | It derives from the author 's experience of working for the Agricultural Training Board in an area in the North of Scotland where family and part-time farmers predominate but has been put on a wider footing by detailed investigations of attitudes and needs in eleven counties in England , Wales and Scotland , and by less detailed investigations during visits to Norway , the Federal Republic of Germany and France . |
2 | But although God does have the role in Berkeley 's philosophy of accounting for the continued perceivability of real objects apart from our actual perception of them , it is not quite in the way we have just described . |
3 | Is not that an appalling commentary on the Government 's record of caring for the environment ? |
4 | The result severely dents Widnes 's chance of qualifying for the Premiership , in which they have reached the final for the last three years , but could prove a turning point in Salford 's survival battle , provided they are a little more circumspect . |
5 | It 's all part of Wimpey 's commitment to caring for the environment . |
6 | In a news conference on Nov. 9 , however , the Philippine spokesman Rafael M. Alunan appeared to indicate a softening of the government 's stance by differentiating for the first time between " sovereign control " and " operational control " , noting that Philippine personnel would not be fully ready to take over the bases by 1991 and that US personnel would be needed to operate them under Philippine sovereignty for a transitional period . |
7 | Her heart cramped now as she thought of her husband 's folly in plumping for the easy money , as it had seemed , after three bad harvests — his airy promise to come home soon — his failure to return after his regiment had been disbanded in Madras and left to make its own way back round half the world . |
8 | Oxygen masks were necessary and Carter had picked off Joseph 's face before leaving for the stair . |