Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prince spoke for 15 minutes about caring for the terminally ill , then extended his visit to a London conference to talk privately with health service staff . |
| 2 | Laing does not blame the shareholders for opting for the Hanson offer . |
| 3 | They found a significant negative correlation between returns during trading for the S&P500 and the subsequent returns during trading for the Nikkei Stock Average . |
| 4 | They found a significant negative correlation between returns during trading for the S&P500 and the subsequent returns during trading for the Nikkei Stock Average . |
| 5 | The FRED includes proposals for accounting for the treatment of issue costs associated with capital instruments . |
| 6 | Man City 0 , Spurs 1 PETER REID will soon be signing a new contract at Maine Road , But the City manager could do with signing a player as well , if all the words about challenging for the title are to mean anything . |
| 7 | Institutes in Germany and Switzerland withdrew from L* amid some acrimony , which increased doubts about paying for the project . |
| 8 | Blackwell Retail , which used to produce its own catalogue , broke with tradition this year and took Books for Giving for the first time . |
| 9 | They had to reconcile the interests of poor peasants with the larger national goals of providing for the war and this meant that how the C C P had to take a more moderate erm policy . |
| 10 | Aside from the practical aspects of caring for the young people , there was much talk of spiritual care and regeneration , so that the young men at Elpis Lodge would go out into the world ‘ imbued and enlightened with the hope of a better future ’ , and not embittered by the ill-treatment and injustice they had experienced . |
| 11 | And the only thing is that finally after three months of waiting for the received all their medals and things for so it can go ahead . |
| 12 | Those of modest personal means or unable to command corporate finance are unlikely even to enter primary races , let alone sustain a campaign through a gruelling eighteen months of campaigning for the party nomination . |
| 13 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 14 | Tomorrow they 'll be free to roam Fantasyland , Adventureland and all the other Lands and try the attractions before gathering for the big gala in the evening . |
| 15 | Many of these occur in the Cambrian — it is as if the echinoderms tried out various designs before settling for the successful models that mostly survive today . |
| 16 | By re-amended notice of appeal dated 30 August 1991 the defendants sought an order to set aside or vary the judge 's order or to order a retrial and sought leave to adduce fresh evidence on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in law in failing to take into account ( a ) the lack of a penal notice on the order which it was claimed that the appellants had breached ; and ( b ) the plaintiff 's delay of 18 months in applying for the committal order ; ( 2 ) that the judge 's decision was arrived at without regard to fresh evidence which the defendants had obtained since the hearing , part of which related to matters subsequent to the hearing and the remainder of which could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence ; which , if given , would probably have had an important influence on the result , which was credible and which should , therefore , be admitted ; ( 3 ) that , alternatively , the court should exercise its discretion to admit the fresh evidence as the liberty of the defendants was at risk ; and ( 4 ) that the sentence imposed was excessive . |
| 17 | Charlton 's seven-year love affair with the Irish shows no signs of heading for the divorce courts . |
| 18 | The couple do get serious when they talk about their work in their environmental consultancy , speaking to companies and giving lectures about caring for the planet . |
| 19 | Times of night visits , proportion performed by deputies , and trend in number of night visits after adjusting for the increased hours during which visits are claimed . |
| 20 | The probability of achieving the minimum qualifications to enter higher education ( three Highers ) varies between advantaged and disadvantaged areas after controlling for the individual 's demographic and familial characteristics . |
| 21 | The side effects of learning for the sake of extrinsic rewards are bad enough . |
| 22 | It 's worth checking your feet before retiring for the night . |
| 23 | Those who fled during the Cultural Revolution often did so alone , others carrying two children on their backs across the Himalayan mountains to join the 100,000 strong refugee communities in India , where today a committed group have devoted their lives to working for the Tibetan cause . |
| 24 | My aims were to record the time distribution of night visits and to show the trend in claims in Berkshire over the past 10 years after adjusting for the change in claimable hours . |
| 25 | In Blind Corner Dornford Yates condemned his characters to days of digging for the Wagenburg treasure in a well so deep and cold that Richard Chandos comments on the absurd situation in which he and his comrades , who have bought the castle under the noses of their villainous rivals , live in constant dread of discovery , while their enemies , in possession above , come and go as they please . |
| 26 | Most of the recruits to the senior positions were from within the industry and in the months up to the planned vesting day — 1 April 1948 — most retained their old jobs in the pre-vesting undertakings as well as carrying out their new responsibilities of planning for the change . |
| 27 | Three hundred years of catering for the City of London were celebrated by Ring & Brymer at the Museum of London last week . |
| 28 | THE years of campaigning for the release of her husband held hostage in Beirut finally took their toll on Sunnie Mann yesterday . |
| 29 | A suicide note revealed they were desperate after years of caring for the seriously handicapped daughter . |
| 30 | Next week parents are due to receive ballot papers to vote on whether they want to push for grant maintained status after years of waiting for the council to convert promises into action . |