Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exercise of these freedoms , since it carries with it duties and responsibilities , may be subject to such formalities , conditions , restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society , in the interests of national security , territorial integrity or public safety , for the prevention of disorder or crime , for the protection of health or morals , for the protection of the reputation or rights of others , for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence , or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary . |
| 2 | may be subject to such formalities , conditions , restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law in a democratic society in the interests of national security , territorial integrity or public safety , for the prevention of disorder or crime , for the protection of health or morals , for the protection of the reputation or rights of others , for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence , or for maintaining the impartiality of the judiciary . |
| 3 | The exercise of these freedoms , since it carries with it duties and responsibilities , may be subject to such formalities , conditions , restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society , in the interests of national security , territorial integrity or public safety , for the prevention of disorder or crime , for the protection of health or morals , for the protection of the reputation or rights of others , for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence , or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary . |
| 4 | Article 10(2) sets out the qualifications in detail : " The exercise of these freedoms , since it carries with it duties and responsibilities , may be subject to such formalities , conditions , restrictions or penalities as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society , in the interests of national security , territorial integrity or public safety , for the prevention of disorder or crime , for the protection of health or morals , for the protection of the reputation or rights of others , for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary . " |
| 5 | Sometimes fresh cow-dung would be collected for plastering the house , for rituals , or for sealing the clay fermentation jars . |
| 6 | There is a strong argument for extending the offence of rape to cover these other sexual indignities , or for restructuring the law so that there are degrees of sexual assault . |
| 7 | For those who were not going , however , it still was n't a day for giggling or cream buns , for showing off lunchtime shopping or for mocking the office messenger . |
| 8 | This facility is useful for rehearsing a piece of music , or for setting the EQ or effects on any of the tracks for mixdown without having to laboriously switch by hand . |
| 9 | Convenient for the M5 , M42 and M40 giving easy access to Birmingham and the NEC or for touring the Heart of England region . |
| 10 | ( 1 ) Without prejudice to its other powers under this Act , a licensing board may make byelaws for any of the following purposes ( a ) for closing licensed premises wholly or partially on New Year 's Day , and on such other days not being more than four in any one year as the board may think expedient for special reasons ; ( b ) for prohibiting holders of licences from residing in their licensed premises , or for requiring the dwellinghouses of holders of licences to be separate from their licensed premises ; ( c ) for requiring all wines , made-wines and spirits sold by the holder of an off-sale licence to be sold in corked , stoppered or sealed vessels , cans , jars or casks ; ( d ) for requiring every holder of a hotel or public house licence to keep in his licensed premises and to renew from day to day a sufficient supply of drinking water , and such eatables as may be specified in the byelaw , and to display , offer and supply the same as may be required by the byelaw ; ( e ) for printing a list of all applications coming before any meeting of the licensing board , with such other information as may be considered necessary by the board ; ( f ) for the setting out of conditions which may be attached to licences for the improvement of standards of , and conduct in , licensed premises ; ( g ) for the granting of a licence of a type other than that applied for ; Provided that a byelaw made under paragraph ( c ) above shall not apply to licensed premises where no groceries are kept or sold and where a bona fide wholesale business in alcoholic liquor is carried on . |
| 11 | He always understood that the papal decree imposed on himself an absolute personal obligation of obedience , but it did not give him a general responsibility for promoting the principle , or for enforcing the obedience of others . |
| 12 | Over the last few years I have also complained to the Press Council on a number of occasions , about various newspapers using such terms as ‘ Gay Plague ’ , or saying that the disease was spread by whispered conversations , or for exaggerating the amount of money spent by local authorities on gay issues . |
| 13 | But as this noble institution has only ever rewarded women writers for being ladylike — Oldie pin-ups , maybe — or for assuming the pompous , androgynous mantle of — God help us — George Eliot , her exclusion can be read as a back-handed compliment . |
| 14 | Instead maybe we should look up accusingly at our political and judicial ‘ superiors ’ for being or for protecting the ‘ real ’ culprits . |
| 15 | Subsidies would be far better utilised as rewards for environmentally friendly farming methods or for protecting the countryside . |
| 16 | What we can not tell is whether the trends to increasing divorce and remarriage will be a force for increasing the solitary living or for extending the range of family contacts available to the divorced . |
| 17 | We are now routinely using LS-PCR for sex determination and are exploring its application to other situations such as the diagnosis of infectious agents where it is useful to simultaneously amplify both specific and arbitrarily primed DNA fragments either for the purposes of generating a control or for extending the amount of information gained from the amplification . |
| 18 | The Department of Transport is studying possible options for a new ‘ M12 ’ motorway from Chelmsford to the M25 , or for up-grading the existing A12 south of the county town . |
| 19 | When serving out of England and Wales , the court fixes in the case of a default summons , or in a fixed date action to which Ord 17 , r11 ( automatic directions ) applies , the time for delivering an admission or defence or for paying the total claim and costs into court , and in any other case a return day ( Ord 8 , rr 2(3) , 4 and 7 ) . |
| 20 | A child may work with father or mother ; s/he may look after a younger brother or sister ; s/he may be responsible for the family cow or goats or for selling the family produce in the market . |
| 21 | Girls can be praised for paying boys back in their own currency , for cutting them down to size , or for challenging the male domination of the music business . |
| 22 | To enable voluntary groups and local communities to bid for funding for their own Millennium projects for local restoration schemes , or for improving the amenities of canals and rivers , as a source of enjoyment for local people and a habitat for wildlife . |
| 23 | They provided hospices for the sick or for raising the innumerable foundlings . |
| 24 | This Barth saw as the irreplaceable basis of Christian theology ; and , he insisted , once it had been recognised , there could be no possible reason for casting around in other directions , and certainly not for turning theology back into the contemplation of our own spiritual navels , or for blunting the challenge and promise of the gospel by seeking to reinterpret or ‘ improve ’ it in the terms of some alternative ( and therefore competing ) theological or philosophical frame of reference . |
| 25 | Farmers were offered benefit payments for taking part of their land out of production , or for reducing the numbers of their livestock . |
| 26 | You may get spots because of pre-menstrual hormone fluctuation or through taking the Pill — especially the low-oestrogen , high progesterone or progesterone-only varieties . |
| 27 | George I had tried , but failed , to end the pernicious practice of the purchase of commissions , which encouraged officers to recoup what they had spent by making what profit they could on clothing and feeding their men or through claiming the pay for ghost-like soldiers who existed only on the nominal rolls . |
| 28 | Ideally the mouth should be clean with no flavours , food or drink for 10 or 15 minutes before or after taking the pill . |
| 29 | The DC may be passed back ( after further modification or after submitting the DC for assessment ) to the original user or passed onto another LIFESPAN user . |
| 30 | ‘ But if those criminals were determined to kill the boy , and it seems with hindsight that they were , they could have done it any time , before or after receiving the diamonds , in the cellar , on the road or on some lonely Yorkshire moorland . |