Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [n mass] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After pledging £20,000 for wheelchair races , the region 's support increased to £95,000 after a substantial shortfall in the commercial sponsorship which now appears certain to be repeated this year unless additional major supporters can be found . |
| 2 | FURIOUS homebuyers are set to sue the builder of their luxury estate after paying £100,000 for houses branded no better than SANDCASTLES . |
| 3 | ‘ After paying £70 for the cab fare they had no money left . |
| 4 | And after analysing statistics for five developed countries and reviewing results of similar studies , one researcher concluded that , " The most recent evidence indicates that the bulk of the adverse consequences of teenage childbearing ( for the health of children ) may be of social and economic origin , rather than attributable to the effects of young age per se " . |
| 5 | The profits were struck after charging £15m for rationalisation and reorganisation . |
| 6 | But since ministers , including the Prime Minister , are so fond of using statistics for the purposes of debate , they can not be allowed to make the contradictory claim that these figures are irrelevant . |
| 7 | Chrzanowski ruled out inviting Jaruzelski to a Sejm meeting , but told the press that he might be summoned by a special committee , set up as a result of the resolution , to investigate ways of compensating people for wrongs inflicted for political reasons under martial law . |
| 8 | In other words , rather than using a notepad and pen , you have the privilege of paying £100 for a piece of complicated electronics that does the same thing . |
| 9 | The shows put on in Paris at the Salon , and in London at the Royal Academy , were a means of creating sales for artists at a turning point in the history of patronage ; as there developed a middle-class market for literature , so there developed a comparable market for art . |
| 10 | Several methods of extrapolating data for [ η ] have been suggested . |
| 11 | Secondly , it has been successful both in terms of increasing its obvious and immediate performance locally and nationally , and also in terms of preparing people for a wider involvement in partnership development in new and less obvious directions . |
| 12 | But if disciplines are bodies of people as well as bodies of knowledge , are not academic courses also ‘ professional ’ in the sense of preparing people for entry to the academic professions ? |
| 13 | The longer terms sees the continuing and growing challenge of educating people for an increasingly sophisticated technological world where business acumen and economic flair underpinned by management skills and intellectual flexibility are needed for survival . |
| 14 | A third means of finding data for certain areas of research , particularly but not exclusively in the social sciences , is to look at information previously collected by someone else for their own purposes . |
| 15 | Here , wildlife cameraman Nick Hayward describes the challenge of filming mink for the forthcoming ‘ Wildlife on One ’ programme , and on page 47 biologists Nigel Dunstone and Jane O'Sullivan tell how well the animal has settled in . |
| 16 | The ideology of psychologism also fits in with the need for motivating people for productive work , and at the same time makes possible and legitimates a fascination with mystery and magic . |
| 17 | The emphasis was thus on using firms for the development of a local area and for its people — rather than with using people for the development of private firms in an area . |
| 18 | This is a very good example of a small gallery with a yard suitable for penning sheep for clipping . |
| 19 | A farmer who 's been banned from keeping livestock for fifteen years has denied breaking the court order . |
| 20 | Last year after a catalogue of neglect was uncovered on his Buckinghamshire farm he was banned from keeping livestock for fifteen years . |
| 21 | Mr Bush 's insouciance in snapping $870m for Panama and Nicaragua from the 1990 defence budget suggests that extra foreign aid for Eastern Europe could , without too much difficulty , be trimmed from the 1991 defence budget . |
| 22 | However , in selecting people for jobs , it is the current profile of goals that provides vital background and career history to date . |
| 23 | In selecting people for a job we are inclined to go on general appearance , whether we like the person , whether we would like to have him or her working for us . |
| 24 | Finally he would spend a great deal of time in preparing people for membership and in visiting members although here he could be helped by the deacons and stewards . |
| 25 | Although briefing is crucially important in preparing people for living and working abroad , it does not provide the realism of a visit . |
| 26 | For example in preparing people for interviews or for public speaking . |
| 27 | Thus , general practitioners in Bassetlaw should soon know what kind of role they will have in assessing people for community care . |
| 28 | Obviously all age-groups are arbitrary ; the point being made here is that the actual divisions used should be chosen for their usefulness in classifying people for the purposes of the research being undertaken , and this decision should be considered at an early stage . |
| 29 | Meat should not be eaten more than once a day ; and fish is increasingly thought of as healthier — oily fish is useful in the prevention of heart disease and arthritis — and you may feel it is worth substituting fish for meat as a main meal twice a week . |
| 30 | Then , perhaps in the preface , the author refers to some research assistants who have been responsible for collecting data for the study . |