Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar course , however , was being pursued by the varied groups pressing for such things as nursery schools , a national health service , ‘ new towns ’ and National Parks . |
| 2 | In the United Kingdom in 1988 , there were 1298 publicly maintained nursery schools catering for some 98,000 children , 82% of them on a part-time basis . |
| 3 | The new organizations catering for this were to be economically more efficient and culturally more bland than the popular movements of the first half of the century . |
| 4 | One of the solictors acting for another trustee says that it appears Mrs Hilali has been living the good life . |
| 5 | I have , on more than one occasion , managed to entice a badger to within a few feet , simply by scratching my head , the inquisitive animals searching for this new ‘ badger ’ grooming in the shadows . |
| 6 | The agreement purported to grant a term of uncertain duration which , if valid , now entitles the tenant to stay there for ever and a day at the 1930 rent of £30 ; valuers acting for both parties have agreed that the annual current commercial rent exceeds £10,000 . |
| 7 | Grabbing his bike from the hedge where he 'd hidden it , Jack raced with all his might , his long , gangling legs pumping for all they were worth . |
| 8 | This could result in one or more candidates surviving for each anaphor . |
| 9 | Tsu Ma was some fifty ch'i back , his mount straining , its front legs fighting for each ch'i of ground . |
| 10 | Journalists also represent a fertile field of would-be Parliamentarians : in each successive general election since 1959 , over 100 of the candidates standing for all three major political parties have been journalists . |
| 11 | Indeed the political parties preparing for those elections are in the process of selecting the candidates er there will in fact be an extra constituency in the East Midlands as a result of this particular order in council er and indeed the political parties at some stage will have to select new candidates for the six extra seats across the united kingdom . |
| 12 | Feverishly they attacked the sea , their eyes straining for any sign of movement in the red-tinged , black water . |
| 13 | Duncan checked the area , his eyes sweeping the terrain without any movement of his head , his ears straining for any sounds from behind . |
| 14 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |
| 15 | While our music has become thick with harmony , theirs twists and weaves the solo voice or instrument into intricate patterns searching for some impossible horizon of sound . |
| 16 | Those who spend their lives looking for some practical escape from the ordinary world eventually have to accept the fact that there is no escape except through death or the imagination . |
| 17 | And as we are unlikely to see any real harmonisation of accounting procedures , fiscal requirements or business practices throughout the Community in the near future , pan-European accounting systems will be increasingly important to the large number of UK companies looking for all the help they can get . |
| 18 | I was assured , though , that this time is seldom adhered to , with most visitors remaining for most of the afternoon . |
| 19 | There was nearly always coffee or a huge meal of steak or fish and chips going for any of our officers who were searching the large rigs and barges . |
| 20 | The winner , Katie Bishop , 15 , cooked a special meal with an unusual carrot pudding that had the judges asking for more . |
| 21 | Early 20th-century Europe was full of men and women who , as their very names indicate , had chosen to be Germans or Magyars or French or Finns , and even today the name of President Landsbergis and a number of prominent Slovenes suggests German parents opting for another collective identity . |
| 22 | It 's very hard to spend months in the archives , reading the papers of the people who spent so much of their lives fighting for this kind of thing , and not I think be rather affected by dedication and by the evidence that they amassed with such enormous difficulty , and by the way they kept coming back and fighting for it over and over again , and the free market argument by comparison lacks that kind of humanity I think . |
| 23 | A myriad of associations campaigning for some form of political and economic union proliferated across all the democracies and across most political party persuasions : for example , the United Europe Movement in Britain , organised by Churchill ; the Catholic Nouvelles Équipes Internationales and the Socialist Movement for the United States of Europe in France , but both with some following in Belgium and Luxembourg ; and the Europa-Bund in Germany . |
| 24 | There are many other distinctions which the Aborigines make which we do not — an illustration of the fact that the world does not come pre-packed into nameable entities waiting for each language to pin its names on . |
| 25 | This provision has caused a great deal of controversy since different countries have classified certain jobs as public functions , which they may not be in other countries , and this domestic classification has been used as a bar to foreign nationals applying for those jobs . |
| 26 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 27 | Thus quantified , the environmental cost of oil comes to 5.56p per kilowatt-hour ( kWh ) , with corrosion and damage to buildings accounting for more than half the total and damage to crops from pollution for just under a fifth ; " old " coal burned in conventional power stations without emission controls has a cost of 5.00p/kWh ; " new " coal 1.18p/kWh ; combined heat and power ( CHP ) stations 0.45p/kWh ; nuclear pressurized-water reactors ( PWR ) between 0.32p and 0.37p/kWh ( not including effects on plants and animals ) ; and solar , wind and hydroelectric power between 0.04 and 0.07p/kWh ( not including visual impact or disruption caused by construction of dams , etc ) . |
| 28 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 29 | There is no problem in this : language abhors such a vacuum and very soon there are countless neologisms vying for this new slot . |
| 30 | Welcome back : Still to come , the teams preparing for this Bank Holiday 's Wye Raft Race . |