Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It banned all political parties , social organizations or mass movements involved in inciting ethnic or racial hostility , using violence on ethnic , racial or religious grounds , or agitating for violation of the territorial integrity of the USSR or any of its union or autonomous republics , autonomous oblasts or okrugs . |
| 2 | Olwen drove , and evolved a schedule of visiting her numerous girlfriends or looking for bargains in the shops whilst the others pitched the local council or union . |
| 3 | I took messages to the Lord Buckingham , pretending I was delivering suits or looking for trade at his London house . ’ |
| 4 | Or listening for days on end while she dithered |
| 5 | Scarlet , with the sentimentality of the deprived and the perceptions of the health-conscious , admired enormously their wholesome lack of refinement , their coarse fibre , their willingness to say what they meant without deceit or searching for means of extended expression . |
| 6 | because it is not worth litigating or suing for claims below a certain sum ; |
| 7 | No courting or going for interviews for 'im . ’ |
| 8 | There are certain types of expenditure that are illegal ( for example , paying an elector to exhibit an election poster or paying for voters to be taken to and from the polling booths ) , and separate committees to promote a candidate are not permitted . |
| 9 | In between they had us swimming , playing football or rugby or running for miles along the beach and on the cliff tops towards Filey . |
| 10 | Decide whether you will give up your old payoffs , such as blaming other people , feeling sorry for yourself , or asking for love by creating problems . |
| 11 | It should be emphasised , however , that a recurrent and persistent pattern of many of these items is a much more accurate diagnostic indicator of addictive ; ease than noticing the smell of alcohol , looking for episodes of unkennels or examining for constriction of the pupils or other signs drug use . |
| 12 | Groups of Wayfarers sail away most days , visiting nearby islands for a picnic and a swim , or stopping for lunch at some tiny taverna . |
| 13 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 14 | William 's accession to the English throne marked a return to the attitude of hostility to France , and for almost all of the following 125 years England was either at war with France or preparing for war with France or recovering from war with France . |
| 15 | Rather than looking for deviations from pattern , perhaps one should be looking at the patterns produced by the modes of rationality which agents typically find it conventional to construct . |
| 16 | Like others , we found in situ hybridisation to be more sensitive than immunostaining for confirmation of cytomegalovirus infection . |
| 17 | Bright young engineers from rival firms are attracted to Keyence by the chance to do their own research , rather than labouring for years under grey-haired supervisors . |
| 18 | Encourage comment , speculation and prediction rather than asking for reproduction of what they have heard . |
| 19 | And rather than asking for commission from suppliers he often buys the weapons himself and sells them at a profit . |
| 20 | ‘ Better this , ’ he bellowed , ‘ than begging for trade from Westminster to the Wool Quay ! ’ |
| 21 | The Errol Flynn looks crumbled with age , and the man whose strike rate in first-class cricket was better than O'Reilly 's , Mailey 's or Grimmett 's entered the twilight world of trampdom under the bridges of the Yarra , drinking meths and fossicking for food in garbage-bins . |
| 22 | A vital ingredient on any trip to the sub-continent is morale — coping with Delhi belly , waiting for room service that never arrives and queueing for hours in chaotic airport terminals . |
| 23 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 24 | But she put an involuntary hand to her belly , as if checking for signs of life . |
| 25 | If Ogarkov 's demotion in September 1984 revealed anything beyond a straight-forward preference to utilise his skills more effectively , then punishment came not for losing an argument , but for breaking the rules — for carrying on arguments after being overruled and pressing for prerogatives in the military-technical and military-political areas which were not rightfully his . |
| 26 | Buying her new clothes helped , with all the half-forgotten luxury of choosing the models in Dior 's grey-and-gold salon and returning for fittings as the suits and dresses were moulded to her figure . |
| 27 | Gull-like in appearance , with gliding and soaring flight , they feed by settling on the water and bobbing for plankton at the surface . |
| 28 | And the smell of those cigarettes in his tormentor 's office , where he stood barefoot and shivering for hours on end . |
| 29 | Indeed , it is through data collection and searching for patterns in those data that theory is elaborated . |
| 30 | The Steelworkers , financing their programme through a 1 per cent levy on union dues , provided training for reps in fighting union-busting methods in the early 1930s ; by 1985 , they had developed a full two-day residential course on ‘ Facing Management ’ , which includes introduction exercises , and a role play ( ‘ Handle with Care ’ ) on productivity bargaining ; the course also looks at Japanese management methods , quality circles and technological change . |