Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 2 | The Laboratory is catering to demand for local chips from Taiwanese Sparcsystem builders such as Tatung Electronics Co , Datatech Inc , Twinhead Inc , Sampo Inc and Chicony Inc . |
| 3 | The Women 's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote . |
| 4 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 5 | It is time that members opposite stopped this petty vindictiveness and sought to join with both ourselves and the Liberals in seeking to press for real progress in recognising the specific requirement of people with disabilities . |
| 6 | Sometimes a family will believe that tough love involves refusal to help the suffer to seek recovery , for example by refusing to pay for specific 12 step programme counselling or in-patient treatment . |
| 7 | As we show on page 10 , brewers are refusing to pay for urgent repairs to their tenanted pubs which they have earmarked for conversion to leases because new leaseholders will have to carry that burden when they take over . |
| 8 | Before it adjourned , it heard former Pan Am employees accuse the airline of refusing to pay for adequate security measures . |
| 9 | It is widespread and growing to the extent that the government is currently seeking to legislate for variable contracts between trade union members and non-members . |
| 10 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 11 | Courts were generally regarded as fair , and in some cases as attempting to compensate for racial disadvantage . |
| 12 | The valleys will have nobody working at all , there 'll be no one paying insurances , no income tax , so where is the money going to come for future pensions for people right through the country . |
| 13 | Once employees are certain they are not going to move with the company , they are going to look for alternative work . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm going to look for real clues round here — bloodstains and things . ’ |
| 15 | For these six , it was naturally difficult to distinguish scanning done for general planning purposes from that done for longer-term strategic planning . |
| 16 | Now the bell is beginning to toll for indoor athletics at the station as , at long last , new facilities are being opened , at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow and soon at the big centre in Birmingham . |
| 17 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 18 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 19 | It still had its pepper trade and the factories in India at Surat and Madras , and at Bantam in the East Indies , with a number of smaller bases , and it was beginning to look for new opportunities . |
| 20 | EXCITING applications are beginning to emerge for dissolving glass , a material discovered accidentally in a telephone company 's laboratory . |
| 21 | Aggressively inclined courtiers like Prince Menshikov ( who was much more militant as a diplomat and as Navy Minister than as Governor of Finland ) were beginning to press for pre-emptive action . |
| 22 | It was a fairly general branch , holding accounts for various businesses , and a number of professional firms — solicitors , architects and accountants . |
| 23 | Circumstances and ideas vary in different countries and the rules of speechmaking differ for different religions . |
| 24 | Intended for students wishing to enter for serious business study courses and examinations . |
| 25 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 26 | But by the end of the Sixties , Lagerfeld was back , having freelanced for various companies in Italy , and started his long association with the Fendis doing , as he puts it , ‘ funny things ’ for them . |
| 27 | But short of a stock market crash , a hundred per cent divorce rate and the legal profession starting to work for free , I could n't see it . |
| 28 | One aspect of this has been the Care in the Community programme , which has seen the closure of many long-stay institutions and which has resulted in large numbers of disabled people re-entering the social arena , but still having to struggle for basic rights of access . |
| 29 | We are continuing to lobby for full compensation for the commercial value of hens slaughtered and for equivalent testing legislation to be introduced throughout the European Community . |
| 30 | Tyler , billed as ‘ the voice of Sky soccer ’ describes himself as a ‘ frustrated footballer ’ having played for Corinthian Casuals |