Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As industry grew , more and more water was needed for heating , cooling and for hundreds of processes . |
| 2 | Such congregations seem more easily explained in terms of opportunities for relating and for sexual behaviour . |
| 3 | A rapid ventilation opening as for other habitable rooms ; |
| 4 | The distinction between real and apparent achievement , if only it can be concealed from the teacher , and suitably managed by a child , provides the opportunity for rewards to be received just as well for cheating as for genuine achievement . |
| 5 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 6 | She was fair , well covered but not fat , and good looking except for hard lines round her mouth . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the kind of performance I 've been looking for for two years , ’ said Welsh coach Alan Davies . |
| 8 | ‘ It was the kind of performance I 've been looking for for two years , ’ said Welsh coach Alan Davies . |
| 9 | Sunsail have a fleet of 15 identical Bénéteau 35s5s in the Solent for use , either for level boat racing or for corporate entertaining . |
| 10 | The driver wound down his window and cursed him , adding that for two pins he 'd tell the police . |
| 11 | It is worth noting that for each price there is a rate of return consistent with it , or conversely for every rate of return there is a price consistent with it . |
| 12 | Mr Foley identified uncertainty as the greatest obstacle to company expansion , noting that for many firms continued rationalisation may be the best policy . |
| 13 | These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes . |
| 14 | The potential also exists for conspiracy , because the idea of people getting their hands on public property at a low valuation and of selling if for different purpose at a high price is no novelty . |
| 15 | Ludens found himself watching Marcus , jealously , but with intense curiosity and interest and waiting as for some magisterial dispensation which would mysteriously order his own future , now so completely held in the balance . |
| 16 | It was emphasising that for many people hospital residence is inappropriate and they are simply living there because there is nowhere else for them . |
| 17 | Sequential organisation has the major advantage that the records are stored in a logical order , presumably that sequence to which the records are normally required for printing and for soft copy reports . |
| 18 | I suspect they award points for skill in flying and for artistic achievement too ! |
| 19 | I weighed in by saying that for some reason it no longer appeared in the Radcliffe Camera , as I gathered the library had ceased to subscribe to it . |
| 20 | Publishing exam results is fine — We have been saying that for three years , but as the Secretary of State managed to point out in his contorted evidence to the teachers ' pay review body , exam results alone provide only an elementary indication of the effectiveness of a school . |
| 21 | CHRISTMAS is coming but for some people the goose is n't getting fat . |
| 22 | Tonight the weather might discourage supporters from attending but for those that do , manager Mick promises a treat . |
| 23 | At lower Sharpnose , Paul Twomey has climbed an obvious rising traverse of the south face of middle fine , starting as for Coronary Country , joining Fay at the spike , moving down to join Pacemaker and continuing to finish as for Break On Through . |
| 24 | It will seem obvious , I hope , that a rule for learning or for any other kind of developmental process , is not a gene written large . |
| 25 | Her much celebrated affiliation with saxophonist Lester Young is affecting nor for any sentimental reasons but because their thoughts were so close in musical terms . |
| 26 | Assuming that for most people a job which requires a high level of effort ( or long hours ) is less preferable than one requiring less effort , and that more pay is preferable to less pay , then people will make a trade-off , if they are allowed , between the effort they exert and the pay they are awarded . |
| 27 | She would give to it all that had been withheld from her , pour out her infinite capacity to love knowing that for certain this time it would be needed and valued . |
| 28 | The remaining metals were mainly used to modify the properties of the others by alloying and for specialised functions in construction such as joining by soldering . |
| 29 | It could produce scarring and for that reason we could not use it on babies ' delicate skin . ’ |
| 30 | Doubts about economic revival were borne out by figures published on Feb. 19 showing that for 1991 as a whole gross domestic product ( GDP ) had , on a provisional basis , fallen by about 2.5 per cent compared with 1990 . |