Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The era of sealing wax and string was beginning to come to its end , although the end was far off ; in the Cavendish Laboratory under Rutherford in the 1930s the story was that research workers asking for string were made to say how many inches of it they needed . |
| 2 | He spotted an Iraqi silkworm missile heading for the American warship , the Missouri . |
| 3 | In 1985 the USSR was Scotland 's 16th top export market accounting for £65m worth of exports . |
| 4 | At a news conference Dr Mawhinney then publicly thanked staff at the 12 NHS hospitals caring for 21 Bosnian patients . |
| 5 | When the demonstrators reached the municipal government offices , there were some scuffles with a public security unit waiting for the students . |
| 6 | Farzad Bazoft , an Iranian-born freelance journalist with British residency rights working for the London-based Sunday newspaper the Observer , was hanged as a spy in Baghdad on March 15 . |
| 7 | The days are long and difficult for 62 year old Fred Robson waiting for vital heart surgery . |
| 8 | A Nigerian air force Hercules C-130 transport aircraft heading for Kaduna crashed on Sept. 26 soon after take-off from Lagos , the capital , killing all 163 passengers on board , many of them military personnel and their families . |
| 9 | The first is that the donations that would be made would go to charitable social service agencies providing for the same groups as statutory agencies . |
| 10 | The competition was tough with 304 UK projects competing for the honours . |
| 11 | Two old age pensioners waiting for a bus . |
| 12 | A patronising merchant banker playing for The Nortons , whom the Captain dearly wanted to dismiss for a duck , scored 112 , and his team declared at 204 for 6 . |
| 13 | City make three changes from the side beaten at Hartlepool Rovers last week , with scrum half Steve Kirkup returning for Charlie Turvil , who is on the replacements ' bench . |
| 14 | It is rather like an empty filing cabinet waiting for the files to go in . |
| 15 | Questionnaires issued by Cheshire County Council 's social services department asking for financial details of those suffering with physical disabilities , mental illness and learning difficulties will also take away a person 's privacy , it is claimed . |
| 16 | White says that there are several Ethiopian graduate students working for higher degrees ; they will not now be able to work with Ethiopian material , he says , and this will be detrimental to them and the development of Ethiopian palaeontology . |
| 17 | White says that there are several Ethiopian graduate students working for higher degrees ; they will not now be able to work with Ethiopian material , he says , and this will be detrimental to them and the development of Ethiopian palaeontology . |
| 18 | New products for the UK market include the integrated accounting software package , Sterling +2 , which runs under MS-DOS and Windows and was launched in September 1992 ( CI No 2,015 ) — according to Goldman , it is ‘ selling like hot cakes ’ ; a new version of the high-end , high margin Sovereign offering for the mid-range market — although prices did not increase , total sales of the product rose 20% in real terms , which was important , Goldman said , as this market is much more valuable than Sterling 's ; and MoneyWise , which is targeted at the home and small business market and costs less than £50 . |
| 19 | A group representing families of the British victims marked the anniversary by handing in a petition to 10 Downing Street calling for a public inquiry . |
| 20 | Sunday best pale and awkward teenagers , unsure and toughly giggly , sit around the central dance floor waiting for the first two or three to start dancing so that the rush can begin . |
| 21 | On April 7 the Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) approved the Second Compensation Law providing for partial compensation for state-caused damage to property between May 1 , 1939 , and June 8 , 1949 . |
| 22 | There 's scores of Central South folk heading for Wales this weekend to ride and run in one of the great adventure races … its the annual Horse v Man V Mountain Bike challenge … local people have won the race for the last five years … and you can if the winning run or ride continues when we bring you the highlights on Monday … |
| 23 | All this is not very encouraging for those who want to see the GCSE as a single simple examination system catering for virtually all school pupils according to their needs . |
| 24 | In the same way a late Roman coin might have the mint mark LON standing for Londinium , the short-lived Roman mint at London which operated between AD286 and 326 . |
| 25 | Standard Life is one of the major equity investors in the U.K. with ordinary share investments accounting for 2% of the U.K. equity market . |
| 26 | Almost 60 Tories have signed two early day motions calling for quality to be as important as money in franchise allocation . |
| 27 | The head and individual staff members meeting for about an hour to discuss the staff member 's responsibilities and the way that the school has progressed over the year ; particular stress being placed on the successes of the staff member and in finding areas of development and growth . |
| 28 | These figures provide political ammunition to chief police officers arguing for more resources , although this is clearly a double-edged sword since the figures could be interpreted as showing the police being unable to do much about crime levels . |
| 29 | When you 're back in your wee stone cottage working for your Dr Ken from Audiology , Miguel will still be here charming the socks off the tourists , you 'll see . |
| 30 | Aldus have a second generation product waiting for December release on both Macintosh and PC systems , MacPublisher has been acquired by the graphics giant Letraset and will re-appear in improved form under the name LetraPage while Ready-Set-Go version 3 looks very impressive indeed . |