Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This achieves much more in the long run than attempting to concentrate for a long time until fatigue sets in . |
| 2 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 3 | Main was not the only excise officer resident in Inverkeithing , and the Cunningham party , while continuing to press for Main 's reinstatement , did not neglect the remainder of the excise establishment . |
| 4 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
| 5 | For example , organisations may tend to concentrate on improving minor internal processes while failing to plan for the single European market . |
| 6 | Granted , if socialists merely develop a list of pat answers to these questions ( nationalisation , ‘ planning ’ ) while failing to fight for more immediately realisable socialist gains outside of government they will not get much of a hearing , but equally to write off the macroeconomic questions as too difficult to speculate about is to forego the right to contest the policies of a reactionary national government . |
| 7 | Due to lack of governmental or any other official support this unique and valuable organisation has had to suspend its training activities temporarily , whilst trying to secure for itself a sound and permanent financial basis for the future . |
| 8 | In much the same way , she suggested that in the aftermath of the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels , the television companies might care to take a long hard look at themselves when seeking to account for the behaviour of the young fans at the European Cup Final : |
| 9 | With respect , it is submitted , that to the extent that the observation may be characterized as seeking to compensate for any lack of clarity in the formulation of the rule in Pepper v. Hart , by the threat of judicial orders for costs , this approach is wrong in principle . |
| 10 | How word meanings combine is a key question when attempting to account for the way discourse is understood . |
| 11 | Courts were generally regarded as fair , and in some cases as attempting to compensate for racial disadvantage . |
| 12 | This has been widely criticised as failing to provide for the development of a coherent energy policy to take account of environmental and other considerations such as events in the Gulf . |
| 13 | Sir James was reported as having called for a return of capital punishment , launched an attack on the parole system , favoured the abolition of the right to silence for accused persons , referred to a black person as a ‘ nig-nog ’ , and made a remark about ‘ murderous Sikhs ’ involved in a case he was hearing at the time . |
| 14 | Union members picketed the Torbay Hotel , cutting off fuel oil supplies , and later , when the manager of the plaintiff hotel was reported as having called for a stand against the union , picketed that hotel with the same result . |
| 15 | In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate . |
| 16 | I am now shown correctly in Hansard as having voted for the Government in Division 15 . |
| 17 | The theorem , and the model of competition it defends , are at their weakest when trying to account for deals struck between small numbers of transactors — in other words , when the assumption of many buyers and sellers does not hold . |