Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold . |
| 2 | The three groups competing for the right to develop the technology for high definition television are expected to sign an accord to pool resources to develop the standard , the Los Angeles Times reported : it said signing of the pact , which could accelerate introduction of HDTV , was imminent ; the groups involve General Instrument Corp and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Zenith Electronics Corp and AT&T Co , and Philips Electronics NV , Thomson SA , Compression Labs Inc and the National Broadcasting Co arm of General Electric Co . |
| 3 | Increasingly all institutions catering for the 16–19 age group will need to run a ‘ mixed economy ’ — preparing students for entry into higher education or for employment . |
| 4 | The competition was tough with 304 UK projects competing for the honours . |
| 5 | It is as if academic freedom were a largely fixed commodity that was passed around among the groups contending for the right to make the key academic decisions . |
| 6 | From then on he sat cowering in the corner beside his case praying for the journey to end and did not dare move , look down or even breath . |
| 7 | He could n't see any other clubs challenging for the title . |
| 8 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 9 | Amongst those groups bidding for the farms were Lonrho , the United Kingdom-based multinational , and the Portuguese group Espírito Santo which had considerable land holdings in the colonial period . |
| 10 | ‘ CAN YOU do an exploding monster drawing for the letters page ? ’ enquired the then art editor over the ‘ phone . |
| 11 | As a result of these , ten percent of children go to special schools — e.g. The Petö Institute or schools catering for the blind , deaf or moderately mentally handicapped . |
| 12 | Many leading manufacturers now have women 's models in their ranges with designs catering for the shorter back length , wider hips and more pronounced bottom . |
| 13 | Although professionalism was restricted and most governing sports bodies held themselves aloof from the pursuit of profit , the impression remains that sport soon became part of a ‘ leisure , industry catering for the needs of a new kind of urban consumer . |
| 14 | Michael and Minna O'Reilly Both of us run a unit in the Scottish Borders catering for the behaviourally disturbed , confused elderly . |
| 15 | ( 3 ) An objection shall , for the purposes of paragraph ( ii ) of subsection ( 2 ) above , be intimated to the applicant ( a ) by delivering to him a copy of the notice of objection lodged with the licensing board under paragraph ( a ) of that subsection ; or ( ii ) by sending a copy of the said notice by registered post or by recorded delivery in a letter addressed to him at his proper address ; or ( c ) by leaving a copy of the said notice for him at his proper address ; and , for the purposes of paragraphs ( ii ) and ( c ) of this subsection , the proper address in the case of an applicant being an individual natural person shall be his place of abode as specified in his application or , in the case of such an applicant applying for the renewal of a licence , the premises in respect of which the application is made , and , in the case of an applicant other than an individual natural person , shall be the address specified in the application . |
| 16 | Venables added : ‘ I just want to be in charge of a successful football club challenging for the league . |
| 17 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 18 | When , after 1880 , we began to see emerging new philosophies to provide the intellectual underpinning for the foundations of the welfare state that were being laid between 1880 and 1914 , Mill might have supplied the economic doctrine , but the conceptions of order and progress utilized the methods , if not the ideologies , of the social evolutionists . |
| 19 | Carriage driving for the disabled began about 20 years ago and it 's been growing in popularity ever since . |
| 20 | A critic walking for the first time into a gallery may describe a colour in a picture as blue ; it will have been the scrupulous task of a conservator to have established that the particular colour in question was Prussian blue , and thus can not date before the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | The practitioner acting for the husband should consider the tax effect of any transfer of the matrimonial home , or interest therein , to the other party to the marriage , and upon whom the burden of any taxation is to fall . |
| 22 | Italian maritime aircraft were soon out in force searching for the British Fleet , but not until after midday was it at last spotted . |
| 23 | Since Croatia became an independent state in June 1991 , Raymond Harding , the New York lawyer acting for the Yugoslav government , has become the lawyer for the Croatian government . |
| 24 | I was about to contact the American lawyer acting for the defendants , Mr William Rogers ( later to become famous as Secretary of State under Nixon ) , when the telephone rang and it was the New York Times enquiring when I was going to meet him . |
| 25 | Carbon dating for the Altamira caves , a penguin troubles sceptics at the submerged Grotte Henri Cosquer , and the sponge is a give-away at Alave |
| 26 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 27 | Midas , in Sloane Square , sells exclusive designer fashionwear making it an obvious target for jet-set shoplifters looking for the ultimate bargain . |
| 28 | It is not difficult to tell from casual chat at court who does what and after dealing with a few claims you soon get to know who is on the other side acting for the insurance companies . |
| 29 | To the psychologist searching for the determinants of personality this sort of outcome is disappointing ; to the parent , on the other hand , it should be good news . |
| 30 | Both events have racing tomorrow and Sunday , and on Sunday Carlingford Lough Yacht Club host a North Coast trophy meeting for the Optimist Class . |