Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although professing support for the retention of the pay formula , senior officers hoped industrial action could be avoided . |
| 2 | Decks serving multi- floor accommodation outside the warehouse will also provide escape routes from the upper storage levels , but their structural integrity must be complete in an emergency , although allowing time for people to escape to safety in other protected areas and routes leading to the open air at ground level . |
| 3 | So straw-burning rather than using straw for animals is something which is bad for the environment and for welfare . |
| 4 | Evaluations of Soviet society inevitably focus on whether a ruling group that does not own , but controls , property , receiving a salary rather than extracting surplus for its own use , can legitimately be called a ruling class in a Marxist sense in which class depends on the ownership of the means of production and the extraction of surplus from an exploited class . |
| 5 | Selling Old Trafford to a first-time buyer on a 100 per cent mortgage would be easier than selling Manchester for the 1996 Olympics . |
| 6 | The tenants preferred to use the contentious area as air space for the benefit of the lower ground floor rather than selling space for the benefit of the ground floor . |
| 7 | Although providing support for the findings of Mattila et al , our results show a weaker association between dental disease and coronary heart disease . |
| 8 | Hence we have to adjust our expectations and , rather than blaming others for preventing resolution , accept that some goals are achieved at the expense of others . |
| 9 | Rather than blaming patients for being too slap happy , it may be that accurate completion of a diary is an unreasonable expectation of patients , who like all humans , are prone to forget . |
| 10 | Unfortunately they are frequently little more than begging letters for money , tombola prizes and jumble or grumbles about late dinner money and parking too near the school entrances . |
| 11 | But there is no trick to the business of learning lines , as you will find out as you go on — although learning lines for an audition is different from memorising a part in a play for production , because then you will be operating with other actors around you . |
| 12 | But , although making claims for Reason less ambitious than those of the seventeenth century , it still sets a problem of how causal powers can be known to exist . |
| 13 | As this is the Government 's 13th hour and it is now too late for them to help , will the Minister explain to disabled people why the Secretary of State for Employment spends so much of his time rubbishing trade unions , rather than finding jobs for those people ? |
| 14 | wrong anyway in that er I 'll say it 's the er early on it in the report Good defines what he determines a prus trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively orb enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund er is against that duty in the first place , but it to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty which I will say stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 15 | Oh , I 'd say it is w wrong anyway in that er I say it 's the it 's early er on it in the report Good defines what he determines a trustees duty and as I said to a sort of effectively ought enter into a tr transaction which immediately cost effecting kind of money rather than making money for the pension fund then it is against that duty in the first place , but it 's to it should however be ma made explicit that it is against that duty saying stock lending may be okay for a pension fund , but not stock lending where the er pension fund is acting as the borrower rather than the lender . |
| 16 | Even though Jones eventually fell , mis-hooking Pringle just before tea , after 3½ hours of defiance , the last session looked set to be little more than batting practice for the home side . |
| 17 | He paused , as if gathering breath for an ascent up a steep mountainside . |
| 18 | ‘ To those who compare Wokingham and Tredegar as if condemning Wokingham for daring to succeed , I say I want Tredegar and the valleys to understand and share more of Wokingham 's success . ’ |
| 19 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 20 | I like to think Johnson would have gloried in the most likeable derivation of the word ‘ kangaroo ’ , even if lacking evidence for its provenance . |
| 21 | He smiled thinly , as if expecting praise for his gesture of concern . |
| 22 | However , any final decision on holding an inquiry for the compulsory purchase order can be made only if planning consent for the scheme is given . |
| 23 | If drafting terms for a business involved in export trading , these provisions should be borne in mind . |
| 24 | European promoters are currently considering suing Ice-T for non-fulfilment of contract . |
| 25 | Equally straitened is Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , which reported plunging profits that were still better than forecast : it is cutting its bonus for executives by 20% in the year to March 31 1994 , Reuter reports from Tokyo , adding that it is also considering reducing bonuses for senior managers as well as stopping increases of wages of those above section manager ; the company sees intense competition . |
| 26 | GRAHAM CHAPMAN and I wrote together almost full time between 1966 and 1973 , writes John Cleese , while producing sketches for The Frost Report , The 1948 Show and Monty Python , as well as several film scripts none of which made their way intact to the silver screen . |
| 27 | It can be used to create a uniform look at a competitive price , while maintaining flexibility for all styles of office layout . |
| 28 | Belief in the freedom of the individual to choose his/her own destiny , while maintaining respect for others |
| 29 | We stayed at Makerstoun from 1966 to 1978 and then , while keeping Makerstoun for weekends , bought a property in Edinburgh ; a neat terraced Regency house in Upper Dean Terrace on the Water of Leith , just around the corner from Raeburn 's lovely Ann Street and a few hundred yards downstream from the house in Belgrave Crescent where I was born . |
| 30 | These are of considerable assistance to the file designer , and should be examined at the end of each run , at least while operating data for a file is still limited . |