Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This situation and its controversies have continued , but in general , from the eighteenth century , increasingly specialized academies came through as institutions for teaching many of the arts . |
2 | The taxonomic literature and major catalogues of species are clear targets for conversion to machine readable form and technologies for automating this process are increasingly being used . |
3 | By Signal Computing the company means technologies for converting various signals into useful information such as speech store and forward , recognition and synthesis , and facsimile . |
4 | 21CenNet Inc , Richardson , Texas-based developer of key enabling technologies for enhancing portable computer communications , has raised $5m in venture funding from InterWest Partners , Sevin Rosen Funds and Compaq Computer Corp. 21CenNet wants the cash to fund development of its MobileWare technologies , which are being designed to support both wireless and wired end-to-end communications to enable portable computing devices to access company information systems by providing a reliable extension of corporate local area networks over public telephone and wireless networks . |
5 | All bioremediation techniques involve using microorganisms to degrade the pollutants , and the use of microorganisms has emerged as one of the most promising technologies for treating contaminated groundwater . |
6 | There were some new freedoms : good reasons for escaping boring social duties , such as calls , or church sermons , or committee meetings . |
7 | Wainfleet went on as the drinks arrived : ‘ All sorts of folk have their reasons for wanting other people 's private business , or their own , published . |
8 | Organisations ' reasons for wanting more women |
9 | Erm , our own is , obviously our own reasons for wanting this change but we ought to know the needs of others to see whether they correspond . |
10 | Work history Chronological record of employment , details of work involved and areas of responsibility , reasons for leaving , current employment , current salary , reasons for leaving present job . |
11 | Interviews — paying attention to reasons for leaving previous jobs , frequent changes of residence , and job-related medical history . |
12 | The animosity towards Docherty resurfaced years later on a memorable episode of the BBC chat show Wogan , when a clearly drunken George Best outlined his reasons for leaving Old Trafford . |
13 | The Government propose to Brussels that the same upper limits be set on dosages of dietary supplements for ordinary consumers buying off the shelves as for professional practitioners of alternative medicine , even though such practitioners may have good reasons for recommending higher doses to their patients . |
14 | Discuss the different ways this could be done and give reasons for preferring one method of providing such an education . |
15 | By the end of 1962 Castro had sound economic reasons for sustaining Cuban links with the Soviet Union , apart from his security concerns . |
16 | ‘ There were lots of reasons for choosing that race rather than a higher profile one . |
17 | For each item , write a short sentence giving your reasons for choosing that form of service . |
18 | Disclose the period chosen and the reasons for choosing that period . |
19 | Reasons for choosing another institution and course |
20 | The reasons for choosing this form fall into two main groups . |
21 | Having deuterium in the electrolyte clearly was a useful strategy ; as for the lithium , Fleischmann said to me : ‘ There are a lot of reasons for choosing this . |
22 | At the top of the list of reasons for developing communal ranches in Tanganyika Masailand given in the 1955 Annual Report was ‘ Closer control of the Masai ’ . |
23 | Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland . |
24 | ‘ Re your reasons for getting engaged . ’ |
25 | To put that another way , there are reasons for thinking that what an econometric model builder might believe is a good estimate of the constant structure of the economy is in fact no such thing , but rather an estimate of a relationship or group of relationships which are dependent upon a particular policy regime . |
26 | There are at least two reasons for thinking this may be so . |
27 | The reasons for obeying these moral rules are egoistic , that to disobey them is to forward the perils of social chaos , or to risk punishment . |
28 | As many of us have mixed backgrounds I would not like to say that ethnic reasons are the main reasons for tabling this motion . |
29 | Gouzenko had obvious reasons for perpetuating this myth and was always astute enough to embroider his story with whatever facts the listener wanted to hear , eventually becoming so vain that even he did not know what was truth or fiction . |
30 | There are good reasons for welcoming alternative schemes . |