Example sentences of "[verb] in [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such consent would not be an answer to a charge of assault , and the policy reasons that forbid consenting adults to engage in fighting for the purposes of assault should apply equally in the case of an affray . |
| 2 | The long years he spent absorbed in working for the abolition of untouchability and for the reconciliation of Muslim and Hindu , and in innumerable projects of village uplift , testified not only to his genuine goodness but also to the strength of his desire to make India , in the eyes of its alien rulers as well as his own , worthy to be free . |
| 3 | While still suffering , the negative feeling of fearful projection may result in craving for the addictive substance or behaviour . |
| 4 | We might argue , albeit anachronistically , that best commercial practice could also have been adopted in accounting for the bridge . |
| 5 | Furthermore , despite a recent recovery , the fact that the value of our investments fell very sharply in the calendar year illustrates that we are certainly not insulated from our country 's economic problems ; this must never be overlooked in planning for the future . ’ |
| 6 | I would like to challenge the widespread assumption advanced in Shopping for the planet ( NI 203 ) that dealing with diapers is an impossibly difficult task . |
| 7 | And what we 've got in standing for a general election is about two and a half thousand men and about five hundred women . |
| 8 | In this sense we may talk of there being a shift to the right , even where this is not reflected in voting for the Conservative party . |
| 9 | SSAP 15 is amended by the insertion of an additional paragraph after paragraph 32 and before paragraph 33 as follows : ‘ 32A Not withstanding the other requirements of this Statement of Standard Accounting Practice , either the full provision basis or the partial provision basis may be used in accounting for the deferred tax implications of pensions and other post-retirement benefits accounted for in accordance with SSAP 24 ’ Accounting for pension costs ’ and UITF 6 ’ Accounting for post-retirement benefits other than pensions ’ . |
| 10 | The most important provision in this manual is that the system of cash accounting , rather than accruals accounting , is used in accounting for the money voted to government departments by Parliament . |
| 11 | His family were not poor , but in a large household all available resources were fully used in providing for the children . |
| 12 | ‘ The understanding of our history we achieved in preparing for the 70th anniversary of October is not something frozen and given once and for all . |
| 13 | Much effort has been invested in searching for the most suitable counselling model . |
| 14 | I recognise that we have a great deal of work to do in planning for the next steps in taking our strategy forward . |
| 15 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 16 | My hon. Friends and I feel justified in asking for a special debate to call attention to the ridiculous fact that , at Humberstone , which is part of the EDDR route , a mile of new road costing £1.5 million has stood finished and unopened for over a year , while the county and city councils argue about a proposed route by the side of the clinic on Scraptoft lane through a recreation area which happens to be owned by the city council . |
| 17 | They merely supplement them , as the original qualities of food supplement the effects of cooking in accounting for the properties of the finished dish . |
| 18 | And we will therefore need to exercise great judgement and realism in the assumptions we make in planning for the future . |
| 19 | While he persists in looking for the golden egg before the chicken is even hatched the terrorists will continue to exact a mounting price in blood for his dithering approach to security . |
| 20 | A name that appears in Halling for a period of around five centuries is of the family of Usher . |
| 21 | In Yorkshire cricket they believe in planning for the future . |
| 22 | I knew players like the incomparable Joe Davis and I doubt if he did any more training than is entailed in going for a long walk . |
| 23 | Olive 's surplus energy was spent in working for the Red Cross Society and forming a Girl Guide and Scout troop . |
| 24 | Because babies are delicate and vulnerable and because the mother — for all kinds of reasons — is compelled to succeed in caring for the child , the situation has a potential for much distress on the mother 's part if anything goes wrong . |
| 25 | Winter then suffered an attack of cramp in the jockeys ' changing room and had to be assisted in preparing for the ride on Mandarin . |
| 26 | Yet before we do so , it would be as well to see just how far formal , purely linguistic rules can go in accounting for the way one sentence succeeds another . |
| 27 | There are many problems still to be overcome in providing for the disabled . |
| 28 | To create a curved hemline you will have already made the hem itself and the curve is formed by reversing what you have already learned in sloping for the shoulders . |
| 29 | People were doing all kinds of jobs to earn money ; even the married women who could get nothing before were able to take in washing for the posh folk whose maids were earning more in a week in the munitions factories than they could in a month skivvying . |
| 30 | But if you persist in going for the burn , you can do as the Californians , and add to your kitbag a packet of small pieces of adhesive-backed plastic called Frownies . |