Example sentences of "[adj] for [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I should say sorry for doing what at the time I believed to be right , ’ said the Prime Minister , receiving his loudest ovation of the night . |
| 2 | Mr Behbehanian , his banker , who believed that the British controlled every event in Iran , was still pressing him to repair there and to apologize to the British for insulting them in recent years . |
| 3 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 4 | An old wallpaper seam roller is ideal for pressing it in place |
| 5 | Some pictures , Victorian engravings for instance , may be more useful for telling us about Victorian tastes , fashions , and expectations than for the scenes they portray . |
| 6 | She was notorious for having lots of love affairs which she told us all about . |
| 7 | Activity in any single unit can farm part of many representations and the inactivity of a cell can be just as important for representing something as its activity . |
| 8 | Many of our residents have enjoyed the hospitality and entertainment courtesy of Matron Elder and on their behalf we should like to express our appreciation , and to thank all concerned for including us in their celebrations . |
| 9 | They are also responsible for helping you with your development and for appraising your performance , see APPRAISAL AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING . |
| 10 | Mr Thomson also felt undermined because ‘ untoward occurrences ’ , including allegations of staff threatening residents , were not being relayed to him for up to three weeks , even though he was legally responsible for reporting them to the county council . |
| 11 | It was now painfully obvious to him that he was dealing with a very fragile mental state , and he did n't want to be responsible for setting it off balance irreparably . |
| 12 | my teacher knows the truth , and is responsible for telling it to me clearly , |
| 13 | The other was the search in living tissues for the carriers or agents which determined these properties , i.e. the genes responsible for producing them in successive generations . |
| 14 | As he had been delirious on arrival , the authorities , knowing that his landlady , Mrs Avery , had been responsible for getting him into hospital , simply put down her name as next-of-kin . |
| 15 | ‘ A big thing ; Edwin was largely responsible for getting it off the ground . |
| 16 | Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ? |
| 17 | Many businessmen fear that , while Peking may stick to its open door and reform policy in name , officials responsible for implementing it in the southern provinces may lose their jobs as hardliners attempt to tighten their political grip . |
| 18 | Who 's responsible for shipping it from and into here . |
| 19 | Your own legal advisers are primarily responsible for advising you on matters of English law , including the Companies Acts 1985 to 1989 , the Financial Services Act 1986 and the Insider Dealing Legislation and the legal aspects of the requirements of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers and the Stock Exchange . |
| 20 | Although EEC policy is necessarily uniform for the Community as a whole , member governments are responsible for applying it in ways which are relevant to local problems , just as they were for identifying boundaries of their Less Favoured Areas in the first place . |
| 21 | The cotton-mill at Northampton was built about 1741 , the first to be driven by a water-wheel , and Yeoman was responsible for equipping it with spinning machines of a new type developed by Lewis Paul and John Wyatt [ qq.v . ] . |
| 22 | Your karate school is responsible for nominating you to the open ‘ B ’ or regional squad sessions which are normally held at least twice a year . |
| 23 | In 1952 she wed film director Roger Vadim , the man responsible for turning her into a screen star , but that soon turned sour . |
| 24 | If a patient can not change position at will , the nurse becomes responsible for doing it for him . |
| 25 | In 1868 and 1879 the two ‘ Torrens Acts ’ made the owner of a house responsible for keeping it in a habitable condition , and gave powers of compulsion to the local authority . |
| 26 | If they do not ( and the track record is not good ) , they will be responsible for leading us up the wrong path ( again ) and they will create yet greater levels of exhaustion and disaffection . |
| 27 | But predators came in various shapes and sizes , and he was troubled by the knowledge that any rescue party from the Simonova could also include the person who was responsible for dumping him in the escape pod . |
| 28 | Have you ever created a conflict situation yourself with someone you consider responsible for hurting you in some way , perhaps even years before ? |
| 29 | So we might say my friend Ellen Blair , or the former chairman Ellen Blair , or a nurse in the ward called Ellen Blair , giving , in some sense , ‘ credentials ’ for her existence and for her relationship to the speaker who is responsible for introducing her into the conversation . |
| 30 | These recits are the most interesting of Guedron 's works ; it was he who was responsible for introducing them in place of spoken dialogue , thereby taking the ballet de cour a significant step nearer to opera , particularly in the Ballet de la Délivrance de Renaud ( 1617 ) ( see also p. 322 , n. 44 ) and Ballet du Roy sur L'Adventure de Tancrède en la forest enchantée ( 1619 ) . |