Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact is that the clothing ( Carhartt and its ilk ) and the footwear ( Blundstone , Red Wings , Georgia Boot ) — traditional US , Canadian , Australian and even Japanese labels producing clothing for the outdoor worker — have only recently gained proper agents to represent them around Britain . |
| 2 | Rimsky-Korsakov added an orchestral figure representing flames for the immolation of the Old Believers , and brought back the Preobazhensky March ; Shostakovich added to that a reminiscence of the Dawn music opening the opera ; and Stravinsky used the intended tune plus two more , giving the ending a much more positive and balanced view of the Old Believers as not regressive and obscurantist but charged with dignity and Christian endurance . |
| 3 | If someone who is offered an obviously forged check believes that if the issue is litigated a court will lay down a rule denying recovery for the future and apply that rule against him , he will not take the check in the first instance , and society will have the benefit of the better rule without actually paying the costs of litigation or incurring the disadvantages of bad commercial practice before the case is litigated . |
| 4 | It showed a replay of Tammuz meeting Ari for the first time in the canteen . |
| 5 | The principal organizations promoting holidays for the working class in the early inter-war period were fired by motives very different from those of Billy Butlin . |
| 6 | She swung round , her swollen eyes searching Duncan for the truth . |
| 7 | On the same day that the article appeared in The Saturday Review , Hofland , perhaps prompted by the tone of the article , wrote to Manners commending Italian for the Foreign Office design and asking when the architect was to be appointed . |
| 8 | An Australian schoolteacher in Hawaii wanting to write a story on the States invading Panama for The Times in London . |
| 9 | On these grounds they would propose to resist the clause proposing abolition , but , in order to enable the House to consider whether there should be a more frequent recommendation for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative , the Government would propose to table a Resolution in the same sort of terms as that included in the conditional recommendations of the Select Committee [ of the House of Commons on Capital Punishment , 1929–30 ] , and that if such a Resolution were passed , the practice governing recommendations for the exercise of the Prerogative would be altered accordingly . |
| 10 | The FBI have identified a screenplay touting suspect for the 1990 robbery from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
| 11 | Tickets for the original Cambridge and Birmingham gigs remain valid , while fans holding tickets for the London shows on the first , second or third nights must attend the equivalent evenings in January . |
| 12 | There is plenty of scope on dry land too — tennis , often on floodlit courts for cooler evening play , horse riding treks for the day into the herb-scented woods and mountains , or golf at the exclusive 18-hole Is Molas Club . |
| 13 | They are seen as exercises ‘ camouflaged as stories … and are accompanied by pictures depicting situations for the description of which the child knows he would use a wide vocabulary and a rather complex sentence structure ’ ( p.221 ) , a vocabulary and sentence structure very different from those used for the primer . |
| 14 | Where the only evidence available is that of one party against the other , or a wife giving evidence for her husband , or an employee giving evidence for the employer etc. the court may well find the case not proved . |
| 15 | Amanda Mares , the producer , might bear in mind that listeners hearing things for the first time need a second or two to focus . |
| 16 | Labour councillors have secured a deal with the Society of Friends and the Two Castles Housing Association for the Court Arcade shops to be turned into sheltered accommodation . |
| 17 | Dublin had feared that up to £6 billion in EC aid could be lost if pro-life campaigners turned the forthcoming referendum seeking approval for the Maastricht Treaty into a plebiscite on abortion . |
| 18 | In order to avoid bias , we did two different meta-analyses , one using data for all patients in the trial , a second using data for the UK patients . |
| 19 | ‘ One suggestion is to develop our expertise in species management and to support countries establishing systems for the sustainable exploitation of wildlife . ’ |
| 20 | Despite security risks — even though no written minutes were kept — the raid was remounted in August , with commandos replacing paras for the flank forces when two LSIs became available and as weather conditions for air-drops differ from those for seaborne landings . |
| 21 | The minutes of a meeting in 1909 record that one antivivisection activist , a Mrs Cowan , had produced a circular recommending prayers for the sudden death of persons making experiments on animals . |
| 22 | British Rail 's technical centre in Derby is already at work designing wagons for the trains . |
| 23 | TONY FOSTER — NOW 42 — read chemistry at Oxford , decided he wanted a commercial career , joined ICI in the London sales office , then had two years as a Midlands sales rep selling chemicals for the Mond Division followed by three years as a product manager for sodium cyanide . |
| 24 | Propulsion of steam colliers was mainly by coal fired boilers providing steam for the engines . |
| 25 | It was a reservoir containing water for the palaces of the city , water which was brought from the Belgrade Forest 19 kilometres distant . |
| 26 | I had another serious battle getting approval for the M54 to Telford — the only road I know of finally settled at a full meeting of a Cabinet committee . |
| 27 | Thank you for your letter of 2nd February giving permission for the use of the Mill Yard for siting of a rubbish skip . |
| 28 | 281 , save that it extended a principle previously confined to the husband/wife cases to a case of parents giving security for the debts of their son . |
| 29 | The first stage of a divestiture search is often a pricing analysis , designed to advise the client on the initial asking price for the business . |
| 30 | Respondents felt that safeguards should be introduced where exemptions were granted : 67% thought that only wholly owner managed companies should be exempted , 85% believed that minority shareholders should have the right to require an audit , 76% wanted a compilation report prepared by a qualified accountant , and 86% wanted a statement by the directors acknowledging responsibility for the accounts . |