Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he is constantly having desires for these partial relationships satisfied , he is less likely to seek out non-distorting , non-partial relationships in the rest of his life . |
| 2 | The department is actively involved in Quality Circles , constantly studying possibilities for further improvements . |
| 3 | The specific reasons for this are not known but are connected with the wider trend of not allowing claims for economic loss in negligence actions . |
| 4 | I mean in a sense they were just sacrificing peasants for that strategy . |
| 5 | Many of the defendants were already serving sentences for other crimes . |
| 6 | The CAP should be scaled down — thus releasing resources for industrial and investment — and replaced by a European Good Food Policy . |
| 7 | The company plans to make around 100 Evantes next year and is already holding deposits for 18 cars . |
| 8 | Much of the initial cost of setting up the campaign was covered either by various committee members somehow doing things for free or came from the remainder of the money raised at the Comedy Store . |
| 9 | His forecasting staff in the Treasury might have been better suited to dreaming up horoscopes , and at times officials seem to have been deliberately distorting figures for political ends . |
| 10 | In 1938 , however , a higher proportion of prisoners ( 51.3% ) was still serving sentences for non-indictable offences than for indictable offences ( 48.7% ) . |
| 11 | There remain , however , a few dancers who excel in the purely classical roles , which an audience demands because they are still testing grounds for particular talents . |
| 12 | She 's always buying flowers for that BVM . ’ |
| 13 | One of the author 's former clients is still awaiting certificates for American stocks he bought through the crashed Sheridan Securities over two years ago , a familiar story to clients of many licensed dealers ( and many clients deal through several ) . |
| 14 | There were also regular conferences at headquarters for divisional controllers and further coordinating meetings for other divisional officers , with whom their headquarters functional equivalents liked to maintain direct contact . |
| 15 | Liverpool , Glasgow and Manchester dominate the list of fastest declining LLMAs for 1971–81 , not just in absolute but also in percentage terms , despite their large size , with London not far behind . |
| 16 | There are the resort hotels , which are seasonal and cater for holidaymakers , though many of these are now also providing facilities for large conferences and trade fairs , which gives them an additional form of income . |
| 17 | She was also undergoing tests for suspected glaucoma . |
| 18 | It should perhaps be mentioned that there are also accounting exemptions for medium-sized companies ( annual turnover not exceeding £5750000 ) but these are modest and are barely worth the effort and expense of preparing separate accounts for the shareholders and filing with the Registrar of Companies . |
| 19 | The project involves setting up recording stations for continuous measurement of daylight and solar radiation at Manchester and Sheffield , analysis of the measured data , and development of mathematical models of the sky brightness distributions . |
| 20 | The Orang-utan is especially welcome for stressing the conservation problems and providing some answers , for collating so much biological information on this fascinating ape ( some results expected , others not ) , and for clearly posing problems for future field and laboratory . |
| 21 | Madam Speaker we understand that er the Tory whips are busily arranging marriages for certain of their members opposite . |
| 22 | It has already developed a C++ compiler for the object-oriented supercomputer , Comandos II , and is now developing compilers for such new high-level supercomputing languages as High Superformance Fortran . |
| 23 | With chains and gags and — dirt — This week , ever so efficiently filing records for this surgeon , I just happened to come across a sixteen-year-old who had his leg off last year — they 're fitting him with an artificial one , it takes months , they 're incredibly slow — and it 's started up for certain now in his other leg , he does n't know , but I know , I know lots of things . |
| 24 | With the Further Education Centre now providing facilities for some 40 or more physical activity and Yoga classes , someone had to get her foot in at the door in those early days ! |
| 25 | Now learning goals for those that that did n't actually , sort of , get round to sending the little pre-addressed form . |
| 26 | The Church introduced measures to control demolition over seven hundred years ago , and has been regularly inspecting churches for three hundred years . |
| 27 | Even making allowances for these factors , a person might be insulted if the actor makes it plain by his words or conduct that he holds in contempt those ( including the victim ) who do not share his point of view . |
| 28 | Or determining standards and then setting targets for all of your staff . |
| 29 | We owe a particular vote of thanks to our loyal and hard working employees for all their efforts during the year . |
| 30 | The family with a different ethnic background next door can be viewed positively — potentially offering opportunities for new ideas and new experiences — or negatively in terms of ‘ problems ’ of difference . |