Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [noun sg] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer Easy Draw is a competitively priced drawing package for use with Windows 3.0 and 3.1 , and has many of the features you would expect from a more expensive program , plus easy to use animation software . |
| 2 | Mahmoud , Owen knew , did not like paying money for information . |
| 3 | Infolink chairman Dr Brian Bailey said its survey on credit levels showed ‘ that confidence is continuing to gain momentum ’ and the general trend showed rising demand for credit . |
| 4 | Tom would resent having broccoli for dinner again , she knew . |
| 5 | We should be careful to avoid introducing change for change 's sake and should carefully evaluate potential disadvantages as well as advantages . |
| 6 | Do not use breadmaking flour for pastry as it is far too coarse . |
| 7 | It is not in the nature of the politics of contentment to expect or plan countering action for misfortune , even disaster , that , however predictable and predicted , is in the yet undisclosed future . |
| 8 | This includes arranging time for discussion of the job/personnel specification beforehand , time for making a joint preliminary selection from application forms/c.v.s , and time for the decision-making meeting afterwards ; |
| 9 | Dr James said he did not know if Tayside Health Board is to continue providing money for treatment . |
| 10 | Does being true to oneself , and not selling out to Hollywood , really mean abandoning melodrama for realism , showmanship for seriousness , spectacle for solemn emotion , tight scripts for improvised styles ? |
| 11 | The report urges consumers to start demanding value for money , but music lovers are sceptical about what they can achieve . |
| 12 | Married in the summer of 1938 to the Reverend Geza Wulwick , who had been brought up in Czechoslovakia , and who spoke fluent German , she and her husband settled in Middlesbrough and almost immediately started collecting money for refugee children . |
| 13 | The Audit Commission has examined achieving value for money in areas such as the management of the council housing stock , and has produced reports on absenteeism through sickness , on the police , on refuse collection and on schools . |
| 14 | Sampling must mean abandoning certainty for probability , but this is not any great problem if sampling is correctly carried out , since the margins of probable error can be calculated in many instances . |
| 15 | As we narrow down the proportion of the labour market that appears to benefit from lifetime employment in Japan , we get closer to the proportion of labour in Western countries employed by large companies who work to seniority wage profiles that offer accumulating reward for experience . |
| 16 | Other proposals under consideration include revoking permission for peat extraction ( often operated under old " interim development orders " obtained before the current system of planning permission came into effect ) , and imposing a carbon tax on peat production ( reflecting the fact that undeveloped peat bogs act as a carbon sink ) . |
| 17 | Proposals in the development plan include laying track for steam locomotives , a steam passenger service between Shildon and Darlington , rebuilding work to make the museum reflect the Victorian era , and sound effects and computer graphics to explain exhibits . |