Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an elegant way to travel , much better than waiting for the buses which , at this time of year , seem to come every other Tuesday . |
| 2 | Such macho tendencies are potentially limiting , rather than enriching for the boys who read such stories , and serve to perpetuate the myth of the ‘ boys do n't cry ’ syndrome . |
| 3 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 4 | Rather than achieving for the sheer stimulation , or intrinsic worth of the achievement , they are driven in a never-ending competition ‘ to be someone ’ . |
| 5 | Rather than striving for an impossible , and ultimately sterile , objectivity , scholars will increasingly need to follow Mary Louise Pratt 's example in admitting their own ideological commitments in order to promote the development of research . |
| 6 | This occurs when a firm continually has to ‘ look over its shoulder ’ and concentrate on short-term performance targets in order to try and maintain its share price , rather than planning for the future . |
| 7 | Rather than dying for a reason she does n't comprehend . ’ |
| 8 | Pregnant women whose babies are overdue may be better off being induced rather than waiting for a spontaneous birth . |
| 9 | Other recent flotations might just represent companies ' taking advantage of windows through which to de-gear , rather than waiting for the exits that offer the optimum long-term return . |
| 10 | Amateurs wanted to get off to the country for the weekend rather than performing for the benefit of playing spectators . |
| 11 | The reason for accepting this approach rather than asking for a ‘ block allocation ’ is simply the conviction that the summation of functional budgets produces a larger and more defensible total . |
| 12 | Trailing 6-3 , Cardiff won a last-chance scrum on the Swansea line and the players pressured Hall into running the ball rather than going for a drop goal which would have given them a draw . |
| 13 | Richard Agutter , head of Peat 's merger and acquisition network , said the relatively low average values indicated that British companies were making cross-border deals for strategic reasons ‘ rather than going for the mega-deals ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 15 | Overall , Mr Charkin presented a picture of a man enthralled by present opportunities and future potentialities , rather than yearning for the comfortable certainties of the recent past . |
| 16 | The evidence in Chapter 3 that was taken as counting against Wagner 's analysis of latent inhibition is just as damaging for the interference account developed here . |
| 17 | From about 1940 to the 1970s , in this picture , both solar and volcanic influences were acting to cool the Earth , more than compensating for the rapid buildup of carbon dioxide , even with the standard greenhouse effect numbers . |
| 18 | Registration figures went down when the poll tax was introduced , but — at least nationally — they staged a marked recovery in 1992 , more than compensating for the 1989 drop . |
| 19 | During the day a Cant Z.501 flyingboat of the 184 a Squadriglia R.M. was also lost , apparently to Malta fighters , and probably while searching for the downed German aircrew ; the crew of this aircraft were rescued near the Sicilian coast . |
| 20 | At the lowest level in the TNC hierarchy , the operatives , there is clearly a reputational element at work , in so far as working for a company that has an international name appears to mean something positive for most people . |
| 21 | As well as allowing for the " artist 's licence " we need to remember that artists often had to satisfy patrons , or produce work that would sell . |
| 22 | This obviously saves much time and effort as well as allowing for the creation of more imaginatively produced work . |
| 23 | Johnny Giles , as well as writing for the Mail , writes regular articles for the Evening Herald in Dublin . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , as well as searching for a director to replace its current chief , Bob Scheifler , the X Consortium is also examining ways of distancing itself from its home at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and developing some kind of marketing focus without falling foul of its not-for-profit status . |
| 25 | An example word supercilious , compiled from simulated data ( 244,140,625 complete candidate strings ) was tested using the old method of complete string look-up ( 7 hours and 48 minutes processing time ) , and the new letter by letter look-up ( 13 seconds processing time ) — these figures include the time taken to build the tree structure as well as searching for the candidate strings . |
| 26 | The Forestry Commission believe that as well as catering for a growth sport , building these new routes helps separate bikers from walkers , so helping both to enjoy the forest in peace and safety . |
| 27 | As well as catering for the spiritual needs of the Russian settlers , monks , sometimes with lay assistants , participated in the colonial process by establishing small monastic communities which soon attracted peasants and became the focus of new communities . |
| 28 | While Pheloung may be best known for his work on the small and large screen — he wrote the award-nominated music for the film Truly , Madly , Deeply , as well as composing for the 13-part television series Boon in 1985 , his first TV series . |
| 29 | While Pheloung may be best known for his work on the small and large screen — he wrote the award-nominated music for the film Truly , Madly , Deeply , as well as composing for the 13-part television series Boon in 1985 , his first TV series . |
| 30 | As well as paying for the new building , the Goldsmiths also increased the salaries of the Headmaster and Usher , made the School free again to the scholars , and paid the running costs . |