Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A CONVICTED mass murderer has , for the second time , bloodied the nose , metaphorically speaking , of Malcolm Rifkind , the Secretary of State for Scotland , by successfully pursuing a claim for damages . |
| 2 | Yesterday Norman Lamont changed his policy three times in ten hours , putting up interest rates , putting them up again , changing his mind , perhaps , about the second increase and finally deciding to leave the ERM , effectively paving the way for devaluing the pound . |
| 3 | Congress reluctantly capitulated to this final demand on Sept. 1 , thereby opening the way for Wilson to end the impasse by signing the budget bill in the early hours of Sept. 2 . |
| 4 | If anything , he was a little nervous about his ability to sustain so demanding a role for fifty-two weeks . |
| 5 | If trams no longer had an obvious technological advantage they also suffered from an institutional disadvantage-of having to pay for the upkeep of the roads they used , up to a distance of 46 cm ( 18 inches ) either sides of their tracks literally paving the way for motor buses . |
| 6 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 7 | It is often asserted that the First World War rescued the Unionist Party from an impossible position and left it poised to become the dominating force ; the war broke up Liberalism and destroyed the Liberal-Labour alliance , so opening the way for Unionism ; Lloyd George carried the party to victory in 1918 , incurred the odium for the post-war slump and was cast aside ungratefully in 1922 . |
| 8 | If you have a really bad cellulite problem I suggest you follow the diet and try and take some sensible form of daily exercise even if it is only walking the dog for a couple of miles . |
| 9 | The mature reader , of whatever age , takes liberties with the text : ‘ Proficient readers can go directly to the meaning of the passage being read , only sampling the print for confirmation of the hypotheses they have made about the meaning intended by the author . |
| 10 | At best Gould was callous and ungenerous in ensuring that he did not receive the praise he deserved ; at worst he was deliberately playing on Lear 's weakness , and jealously guarding the limelight for his most ambitious publication to date . |
| 11 | From the yellow pages of the Preston Directory comes the shock revelation that NIRVANA are not only paying the price for their enthusiastic espousal of the rock lifestyle but even have their own nursing home ! |
| 12 | Thus law often has a dual role to play , not only providing the basis for the ‘ smooth ’ functioning of society , but also forming part of an interrelated system which functions to provide legitimacy , cohesion , integration and unity . |
| 13 | Auditors will also be able to give an opinion without resolution of all uncertain matters so removing an argument for delay . |
| 14 | The diode D1 now comes into the action by being suddenly forward biased , so providing a path for the current from the inductor to flow around the loop into the filter capacitor and the load . |
| 15 | This means , for example , negotiating good-practice job evaluation schemes and union participation in vocational training , so providing the access for women to long-term non- traditional jobs . |
| 16 | I am told you were recently criticised by a learned judge for wrongly sending a Romany for trial to the Assizes in Oxford ? ’ |
| 17 | As a result the function of second-level policy-making institutions such as Public Local Inquiries is seen in terms of merely affording an opportunity for those whose private individual rights and interests may be affected by a policy proposal , to make this known to those responsible for making the decision . |
| 18 | After we had been constantly studying the sky for a few months and getting the feel of things , we did tend to develop a sixth sense regarding the weather , a bit like farmers . |
| 19 | The borehole can often be sited precisely where the water is needed — in a village or factory compound , for example — so avoiding the need for expensive water mains . |
| 20 | Northampton-based portable computer peripherals supplier Ranger Computers Ltd has introduced a new version of its RangerDisk3 personal computer compatible floppy disk drive for use with Psion Plc Series 3 handheld computers : it is intended as more convenient means of backing up or transferring Series 3 files than Psion 's Comms Link ; RangerDisk3 has its own version of MS-DOS and connects to the Series 3 via a Psion serial adaptor ; it can be used with the 128Kb and 256Kb models ; the operating software is built in so avoiding the need for program installation on the Series 3 ; file transfer is by the XModem protocol ; it is £200 from Ranger . |
| 21 | Having carried out the work , the repairer then supplies the goods to the original owner who , using its VAT number , acquires them in its own country so avoiding the need for cross-border refunds . |
| 22 | Von Schelting 's most powerful criticism was that the sociology of knowledge undermined its own basis — it was apparently making a claim for its own truth that it argued was not available for knowledge in general . |
| 23 | These restrictions show that the subjective element is merely preparing the ground for the objective element ; it is not part of a broader defence of emotional pressure of the kind discussed in Chapter 6.5(c) above . |
| 24 | But all of them are constantly watching the keyboard for their particular call up command and it is possible that one command may affect more than one accessory — with predictable , and disastrous , results ! |
| 25 | The 1918 constitution rebuilt the party machine , creating a centralised , national body out of a loose federation of affiliated organisations , so laying the foundation for an effective election machine , while its political commitment was enshrined in Labour and the new social order , a manifesto that was sufficiently ambiguous to attract people with quite different conceptions of the role of the party in heralding socialism , and yet seemed to many to offer a new beginning . |
| 26 | Only watching the sea for hours calmed her . |
| 27 | The Coach Drivers Club felt that £5 per day or part of a day for a coach was unreasonable for coaches only visiting the town for up to two hours . |
| 28 | A woman knelt beside Eva , gently probing the reason for the tears . |
| 29 | 2 Of itself , however , the reality of group activity was probably of less significance than was the fact that the established theories of British politics suddenly came to appear as " wrong " , so prompting the search for new ways to make sense of things . |
| 30 | Nurtured by his part in the suppression of the October revolution in Asturias , in 1934 , it took root definitively when his troops crossed the Straits of Gibraltar from Africa in August 1936 , thereby saving the day for the anti-Republican insurgents . |