Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A speech by the prince about caring for the terminally ill sounded so close to his wife 's concerns she could have written it herself . |
| 2 | The general case for exporting for the good of the economy and for the good of individual companies has been covered , together with an overview of organisational and cultural issues . |
| 3 | If the family finances have been badly affected by the patient 's stroke , you may have to go to work as well as making provision for caring for the patient . |
| 4 | Bush called for greater funding for housing for the poor and for inner city redevelopment . |
| 5 | The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution . |
| 6 | But the company 's Canadian parent , The Thomson Corporation , lost ground on its publishing side after providing for the sale or closure of titles in the UK and north America . |
| 7 | Learners need to see the total experience ( theory and practice ) as a learning module , and many of the topics explored are discovered , discussed , and learned as a result of caring for the patient . |
| 8 | There is no suggestion anywhere else in the New Testament of waiting for the Holy Spirit . |
| 9 | The Lord clearly despises the practice of reaching for the stars instead of turning to him . |
| 10 | Gandhi 's most brilliant demonstrations of this fact were achieved through his practice of fasting for the attainment of some political object . |
| 11 | Griffiths , 40 , told police that he had no intention of paying for the goods which came from Littlewoods Catalogues , John Moores Catalogues , Empire Stores , Readers Digest and other companies . |
| 12 | The sentence had no effect on Barry 's eligibility to complete his current term ( due to expire on Jan. 2 , 1991 ) or to fulfil his stated intention of standing for the city council elections on Nov. 6 . |
| 13 | That means that after years of scrimping and saving at Charlton Lawrence should enjoy the luxury of preparing for the big time with money to spend . |
| 14 | Develop this approach as the heart of any teaching you do : it stresses the visual and auditory side of spelling for the pupil , and also helps him to understand how the patterns of spelling work . |
| 15 | The working of the Contagious Diseases Acts themselves also served to mobilise many a radical working man against the exploitation of working-class women , and an important alliance developed between this radicalism and feminists , which had the additional effect of providing for the latter a social support which enhanced their authority within the repeal movement . |
| 16 | Chapuisat , whose ambition is to play in Italy , feels that if the Scots lose on Wednesday then he and his team mates will take a gigantic stride towards qualifying for the finals in America . |
| 17 | You develop a reflex action of reaching for the bowl . |
| 18 | In order to create this relationship of mutual esteem between yourself and your examiner , pay him the compliment of searching for the point of his problem . |
| 19 | In the afternoons , she must always be home at 4.30 — so that the carer can take her to the lavatory before leaving for the day . |
| 20 | The most feverish area of research in snowboarding for the past few years has been the quest for an improved binding system — in particular a releasable binding that works . |
| 21 | Catch crops are usually sown in late summer or early autumn immediately after harvest , for grazing in early winter and again in the spring before ploughing for the next main crop . |
| 22 | ANSWER/ARGUMENT In accounting for the popular appeal of the Nazis , anti-semitism was not as significant as other factors , especially that of Hitler himself . |
| 23 | In 1901 Hobhouse made an early attempt at accounting for the evolution of mental structure . |
| 24 | The Syrians ensured the continuation of Maronite rule by arranging for the installation of Elias Sarkis , a banker of political probity whose rule was to be marked by the further collapse of the country he promised to save . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's bad for the sport because I wanted to win the crown in the ring by fighting for the undisputed title , ’ said Lewis . |
| 26 | The introduction of the steam press after 1810 reduced the price of books , allowing experts to earn a living by writing for the ever-expanding market . |
| 27 | Offer it up , people said : offer everything up , the happy times too , it 's all part of praying for the holy souls . |
| 28 | Far from being outdated , this old and broad conception of democracy holds out the only hope of compensating for the weaknesses of elected representative assemblies , dwarfed as they presently are by the bureaucratic and monopolistic structures of power which surround them . |
| 29 | With no medical insurance , Charlie 's family had no hope of paying for the £500,000 surgery and the American state medical organisation Medicare refused to fund it . |
| 30 | That from the nobility , gentry , clergy , yeomanry and freeholders of Middlesex considered the action both illegal and arbitrary as well as threatening to the very concept of private property : " the pretended necessity of reserving for the public service the specie deposited by individuals in the Bank … may be pleaded at any time , and applied , with equal reason , to any private property whatsoever " . |