Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specific offline requests from LIFESPAN users are included while checking for the limit having been reached . ) |
| 2 | The smugglers have gone , the last major encounter being in 1831 , when six coastguards armed with muskets surprised about forty smugglers at Whitsands , only one of whom was caught while heading for Sheviock . |
| 3 | The relative merits of both approaches have to be considered when opting for a solution to a particular diagnostic problem . |
| 4 | He does not want his team disrupted and is even more concerned that one might be injured while playing for the county . |
| 5 | Wigan are still haunted by the memory of Ellery Hanley 's pelvic injury suffered while playing for Western Suburbs for which they have n't received any compensation . |
| 6 | Mr Brown was freed while waiting for a decision on the appeal . |
| 7 | V. Marlow is not included in either squad despite being named as playing for both Dorning , in place of Hartley , and Twitchit , in place of Millgate . |
| 8 | In one folder you can have a section for notes made when preparing for language sessions , another section for drills , another for check lists and so on . |
| 9 | At one extreme underthrusting is seen as proceeding for up to 1500 km at the base of the continental crust through the peeling off of the lower part of the lithosphere of the Eurasian Plate ( Fig. 3.22(B) ) . |
| 10 | On leaving Apple , Steve Jobs was described as ‘ its heart and soul ’ ( Patterson , 1985 ) and Lévesque was seen as speaking for the little people of Quebec , the average French Canadians whom he loved . |
| 11 | Each member of the family had his or her picture taken at least once : there , recorded for posterity , is father Benjamin , leaning back comfortably in a chair just as he had done when sitting for Mr. Adkin all those years before , still wearing his favourite ring on the little finger of his right hand . |
| 12 | An essential requirement for the control of welfare fraud is a system of national identity cards , with sealed-in number , photograph , signature and thumb-print , to be shown when applying for benefit or paid employment . |
| 13 | The laws of yesteryear offered scant protection to the enemy loose-head and hooker , both of whom had to find their own salvation — the most original being , of course , that to which the Gala and Scotland loose-head , Tom Elliot , resorted when playing for a species of international XV versus Sedbergh . |
| 14 | Instead , they are asking for no compulsory redundancies , and are arguing with BR management about whether this can fairly be interpreted as asking for jobs for a lifetime . |
| 15 | In this way F must soon be interpreted as standing for ‘ Fail ’ . |
| 16 | Wedding rituals in either case are a classic example of how the statements made by participants in a particular context should not be taken literally or at face value but must be interpreted as standing for something else , rich in ambiguity and figures of speech . |
| 17 | Official denials by the Argentine Foreign Office were interpreted as playing for time to avoid loss of face . |
| 18 | I was not shown as voting for the Government motion in Division 15 . |
| 19 | Tact must always be used when asking for identification or payment in advance . |
| 20 | It is used when applying for a job . |
| 21 | Thus all references to sets of conditions are to be understood as allowing for the possibility of one-member sets . |
| 22 | Even though active support for antislavery organisations declined after 1840 , leaders of abolitionist organisations wanted to be recognised as speaking for a reflexive , if latent , antislavery sentiment . |
| 23 | Chosen for next month 's Scotland sevens tour of Australia , Fiji and Hong Kong , Renwick is battling to overcome a cracked thumb sustained while playing for Hawick in a friendly match at the weekend . |
| 24 | Should treatment be withheld and the available donor organs donated to ‘ more suitable ’ patients or should such ill patients be actively treated while waiting for a suitable donor organ , thus leading to a potential increase in the number of stable patients likely to deteriorate while awaiting ‘ elective ’ transplantation ? |
| 25 | My knowledge of chyluria progressed while working for the senior physician of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases . |
| 26 | Yet the high-momentum electrons and positrons observed must eventually be explained somehow and it is perhaps worth remarking that it is not new in physics for novel phenomena to be observed when looking for something else . |
| 27 | In this approach , trade unions are viewed as pushing for wage increases in an attempt to gain a bigger and fairer share of the national income for their members . |
| 28 | Furthermore , out of a total number of firms on the audit register of 11,200 , only 164 were identified as acting for listed companies and a further 115 for other large organisations . |
| 29 | It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) . |
| 30 | It might seem that it would , because it might seem very natural to think that one red thing or image might be taken as standing for red things in general because of its natural resemblance to the other members of the class , this constituting the most fundamental sort of association . |