Example sentences of "[verb] by [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 9 , demonstrators responded by calling for the resignation of Crimea 's authorities and cancellation of the new resolution . |
| 2 | The strategy thus usually starts by aiming for the ideal result but having two other results in mind . |
| 3 | Livingstone and Wilkie conclude by arguing for the decentralisation of control and the democratisation of work processes . |
| 4 | Obviously , sorting out the courses which are on offer can best be done by writing for the prospectus but with any application the question that will be of overriding importance is how you are going to finance your training . |
| 5 | It is a cruel sport at best , but the poor show the matadors and toreadors made by running for the outer rail and escaping over the fence when the enraged bull pursued them was not a creditable sight ; I spent my time , for as long as I stayed , cheering for the bulls . |
| 6 | The objective is to make sure that the needs of individual students can be met by arranging for the research to be directed by experienced members of staff actively interested in the chosen topic who will be the supervisors . |
| 7 | The way I have phrased this criterion implies that we should begin by looking for the biochemical and cellular changes and then on this basis seek the neurophysiological ones , and that in some way the neurophysiology is a mere incidental product of the biochemical and structural changes . |
| 8 | Yes , er , erm , er , to demonstrate all the previous er , developments that we , we 've undertaken and community care is not the cheap alternative , it 's er , it 's considerably more expensive , er , four hundred and eighty now and four hundred thousand represents a difference that we 've estimated between the care coming in from hospital , and in care er , envisaged by providing for the residents in the community . |
| 9 | It is entered by looking for the entrance : by looking for opportunity . |
| 10 | Since she is not to discuss the faults of the particular man involved , nor is there anything to be gained by arguing for the uninspiring Dusterandus , Leapor attempts to convince her friend that marriage per se is risky , even if there is some chance of a happy outcome : |
| 11 | This feeling was exacerbated by waiting for the guide to translate . |
| 12 | Frank soon became a prolific scorer for the Reserves but he graduated to the first team as the ideal foil to the great goal-scorer , Peter Simpson , having begun by deputising for the master when Peter was out injured . |
| 13 | The half-stepping scheme is therefore a useful compromise , since the Vo/V1 ratio is not too high and reasonable damping can be achieved by arranging for the motor to come to rest at positions where two phases are excited . |
| 14 | The central , distinctive idea here is that the rational expectations hypothesis can be seen as imposing restrictions on what we should observe in the world , and so the validity of rational expectations can be tested by testing for the validity of those restrictions . |
| 15 | All these findings on the relationship between housing and unemployment are not substantially altered by allowing for the generally lower social status — and therefore higher risk of unemployment — among local authority tenants as both this study and the work of a number of other researchers has shown ( McCormick , 1983 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1987 ; Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ; an extended bibliography of the general topic of housing and labour market interactions is given in Munro , 1986 ; Labour Force Survey 1983 and 1984 , 1986 , Table 6.6 ; Sullivan and Falkingham , forthcoming , Tables 1 , 2 ) . |
| 16 | Acid output was calculated by allowing for the amount of juice produced in each time interval , and was expressed as mEq/h . |
| 17 | Giardia infection can be diagnosed by looking for the parasite in the stools . |
| 18 | Most of the time is consumed by waiting for the various processes of typesetting , page design and layout , proofing and so on to occur . |
| 19 | That defeats the whole purpose of requiring a certificate , since it destroys the certainty which the parties required by providing for the certificate . |