Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reserve , the indifference and the blasé outlook which urbanites manifest in their relationships may thus be regarded as devices for immunizing themselves against the personal claims and expectations of others . |
| 2 | The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement . |
| 3 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 4 | And we also have Monsieur Tran Van Lung here to thank , do we not , for reminding us of the great and unshakable dignity of the Orient . " |
| 5 | The National Trust is responsible for protecting one in every six miles of coastline in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | In 1868 and 1879 the two ‘ Torrens Acts ’ made the owner of a house responsible for keeping it in a habitable condition , and gave powers of compulsion to the local authority . |
| 7 | As Hill ( 1983 , p. 124 ) observes , the ‘ attacks on Quangos have obscured , rather than illuminated , the serious issue of how ministerial patronage might be replaced by alternative selection procedures , and how these bodies might be made more accountable , without losing that very semi-independence which was a major reason for establishing them in the first place ’ . |
| 8 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 9 | DAVE BASSETT last night thanked old pal Bobby Gould for saving him from a possible FA rap . |
| 10 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He died cursing your father for trapping him into a loveless marriage , ’ he growled . |
| 12 | If they do not ( and the track record is not good ) , they will be responsible for leading us up the wrong path ( again ) and they will create yet greater levels of exhaustion and disaffection . |
| 13 | Some of the prescribed topics may not at first seem particularly appealing , especially if they have not been covered in school before , but avenues can be explored for presenting them in an interesting way . |
| 14 | State any biases you would expect to find , and what measures you would suggest ( either in the planning of the enquiry or in the statistical analysis ) for remedying them in the following situations . |
| 15 | Each has systematic ways of dealing with apparently awkward cases and there is no hope of specifying neutral conditions for testing one against the other and thus deciding between them . |
| 16 | BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SEXUAL BEING : Woody Allen , for ridding himself of the insipid waif and compulsive adopter Mia Farrow by bedding her adopted daughter Egg Foo Yong , or whatever her name was . |
| 17 | Thank you for providing me with an excellent short article for the summer edition of Rural Wales . |
| 18 | Thanks for providing me with an excellent article for the summer edition of Cymru Wledig . |
| 19 | I am indebted to our Home Improvements Editor , David Holloway , for providing me with the following information relating to the 2.5 per cent VAT increase announced in the recent Budget . |
| 20 | I AM indebted to the Esperanto Centre in London for providing me with the following gem , under the heading ‘ Unfortunate Translations ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ You mean you 're grateful to her for sending someone with an ulterior motive ? ’ |
| 22 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 23 | She wrote in the card : ‘ Thanks for treating me like a human being . |
| 24 | What amazes me is how often they 'll say to me ‘ Thank you very much for treating me like a human being ’ because however drunk they are in the churchyard I always believe that you 're much more likely to get somewhere with somebody if you are polite and kind to them and treat them like a real human being , and you can get into all sorts of fascinating conversations with these people even when they are fairly drunk , because actually they are real human beings , they are n't awful people . |
| 25 | He credits Gwen and the Lovejoy series for rescuing him from a wasted life of bed-hopping , booze and drugs . |
| 26 | Guest teacher was Joan Daniels , and we thank Kent display team for joining us despite the miserable weather . |
| 27 | These negative or unenthusiastic reactions from the primary Gulf states showed that the prospects for involving them in the proposed neutralised area were poor . |
| 28 | Many businessmen fear that , while Peking may stick to its open door and reform policy in name , officials responsible for implementing it in the southern provinces may lose their jobs as hardliners attempt to tighten their political grip . |
| 29 | Your karate school is responsible for nominating you to the open ‘ B ’ or regional squad sessions which are normally held at least twice a year . |
| 30 | ‘ For putting me in the right frame of mind for facing that rat Silvio . |