Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also has three heated public glasshouses and a small propagation unit which concentrates mainly but not exclusively on bringing on plants for amenity planting . |
| 2 | The " gilt only " scheme , which was advocated by workers in the United States , consists essentially of using only gilts for breeding . |
| 3 | The County Council , faced with making savings of around £2 million in its social services budget , is considering bringing in charges for using the centres . |
| 4 | Each is dusting off schemes for supporting innovative industry . |
| 5 | Opening up possibilities for interpreting experience |
| 6 | Still being distributed throughout the UK and abroad , Networking International has been a real source of information as well as opening up opportunities for women artists . |
| 7 | In other words she herself is opening up avenues for all sorts of intuitive meanings . |
| 8 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 9 | By totting up numbers for one group of estates , adding a notional 22 per cent for unrecorded children under twelve , and a further 25 per cent for other omissions , and then multiplying these for the whole of France , Lot calculated a population for Charles the Bald 's kingdom of 26 million . |
| 10 | Second , the law is gender-specific , singling out women for more lenient treatment . |
| 11 | The Government have often been accused of singling out students for special treatment under the rules . |
| 12 | The fieldworker presented the research quite accurately as a study of the neighbourhood , including its language , without singling out language for particular comment . |
| 13 | This weekend 's meeting is the latest in a series of conferences over the past two weeks during which ministers , their advisers , vice-chancellors , polytechnic directors and senior officials have been thrashing out strategies for expanding the higher education system . |
| 14 | However , for aspects of driving where memory for events is not so clearly necessary it may be surprisingly poor . |
| 15 | We were sitting round the newsroom table , mulling over ideas for the next day 's programme . |
| 16 | Newco can claim writing down allowances for plant and machinery of 25% on a reducing balance basis over whatever number of years reduces the expenditure to a negligible amount . |
| 17 | Note that where assets are acquired not as part of a TOGC and VAT is payable , the VAT liability may be treated as capital expenditure for the purpose of writing down allowances for plant and machinery . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've had enough of hunting down Humans for them to play their grisly games with ! |
| 19 | At the time of writing only reports for 1991 and 1992 have been published and it is too early to evaluate the input that these new reporting arrangements will have . |
| 20 | Suddenly the people , his people , were expressing only loathing for all that he had achieved in his thirty-seven years on the throne . |
| 21 | They began filling in forms for security passes at the little reception desk while a faded old man in a messenger 's uniform rang number after number to find out where the meeting was being held . |
| 22 | Then Maxham waved a square , clean hand , brushing aside Tolby for the time being . |
| 23 | Dick or Doug Graham originated from Corby in Northampton and , even as a young lad , was soon picking up honours for his performances as a goalkeeper . |
| 24 | Former GB tourist Des Foy and fellow centre John Henderson are also on their way to Fartown , with Oldham picking up £10,000 for the pair . |
| 25 | I did little bits to help , like picking up sticks for firewood and fetching water from the well , as we did n't have any electricity or running water . |
| 26 | Picking up refuse for recycling can be profitable , if towns are willing to pay for it . |
| 27 | Could we have a board game called The Yorkshire Ripper where you throw dice to travel around the red-light areas of Yorkshire picking up points for prostitutes encountered on the way ? |
| 28 | Looking up charges for a cricket net or a tennis court per hour yielded high success rates ( around 80 per cent for each of the bottom two bands and around 90 per cent for the top band ) . |
| 29 | I started by looking up quotes for characters to say , and found myself reading four or five pages , until I found myself reading the Bible and only the Bible for quite a long time . |
| 30 | ‘ They were training up people for the university , teaching me Latin . |