Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PETER SHILTON gave his able deputy Ray Newland a vote of thanks last night for keeping Plymouth on the Cup trail after his most taxing week in management . |
| 2 | I heard one say on Danny Baker 's Saturday night show : ‘ Dalglish is to blame for landing Souness in the mire . ’ |
| 3 | There was a strong case for saving Thoresby for the nation , but unfortunately its future came into question just at the moment when all thoughts were focused on Brodsworth , near Doncaster , another Victorian house with an even more complete set of contents . |
| 4 | Guinness around the world , part three : these three girls are largely responsible for promoting Guinness in the south-east Asian country of Vietnam , where Foreign Extra Stout was introduced last year . |
| 5 | A short time later it had a change of heart , however , and indicted the publisher-cum-bookseller Edmund Curll for selling Venus in the Cloister , or the Nun in her Smock which was a spicy tale of lesbian nuns , first published in France in 1682 . |
| 6 | A group of Conservative malcontents , headed by Lord Birkenhead , tried to use the prospect of a Labour Government as an excuse for removing Baldwin from the leadership of the Conservative Party . |
| 7 | The other sister , Mary , was four years younger than Eleanor , and Froissart tells the story that Thomas took responsibility for educating Mary in the hope of persuading her to go into a nunnery , so that he would receive the entire Bohun inheritance . |
| 8 | MIPS Technologies Inc refugee Chet Sylvestri , now over at Sun Microsystems Inc and responsible for putting Sparc over the top as an architecture , reckons a key step could be getting the otherwise anathema Windows NT operating system ported to the chip . |
| 9 | For example , a centre must have at least one member of staff who is competent in APL techniques and there must be a plan to train all members of the centre 's APL team ; a central contact for APL must be appointed who will be responsible for organising APL within the centre and for liaising with SCOTVEC . |
| 10 | The code word for locking Germany into the alliance with France is , of course , ‘ Europe ’ , although it is far from clear that using the methods of the 1950s , strengthening the legal structure of the EC , can continue to serve their purpose , since the legal structure itself would inevitably be more and more influenced by Germany . |
| 11 | This year 's winners of the NatWest Trophy will receive a record £27,500 prize — around £5,000 more than Pakistan collected for beating England in the World Cup final — because the total prize-money has increased to £73,350 . |