Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Puffer , a nineteenth-century female psychology graduate thinking of applying for an academic post , is told by her college president , ‘ the rumor … concerning your engagement may have … affected the recommendation I sent ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is no suggestion anywhere else in the New Testament of waiting for the Holy Spirit . |
| 4 | The Lord clearly despises the practice of reaching for the stars instead of turning to him . |
| 5 | Both legal literature and the documentary evidence attest the use of what can be called trust clauses , as well as the practice of using for a single disposition the wording of both legacy and trust . |
| 6 | Gandhi 's most brilliant demonstrations of this fact were achieved through his practice of fasting for the attainment of some political object . |
| 7 | Under the first definition , users were deemed to be visiting a library with the particular intention of searching for a document or for information . |
| 8 | I 've no intention of paying for a Hansom all the way to Liverpool . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He left Grace and Peggy behind with the intention of travelling for a while in Europe , but he had only just landed in South Africa when Grace realized that she was going to have another child . |
| 12 | The girl , Lorna , announced her intention of applying for a transfer : ‘ I do n't know how you 've stuck it with her so long , I really do n't . ’ |
| 13 | They had no intention of applying for a weekly permit to play on the street corner in every town throughout Scotland . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is perhaps the imperative of writing for a national gallery with international exposure which prompts this emphasis on ‘ mastery ’ and ‘ genius ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The effect of applying for an IVA can be dramatic ; the individual is given a breathing space . |
| 19 | The effect of applying for an IVA can be dramatic ; the individual is given a breathing space . |
| 20 | There had been talk of meeting for a drink in the evening , but the talk had taken place at five in the morning as Kelly was hurriedly slipping into her clothes and now Nick seemed to have forgotten . |
| 21 | You develop a reflex action of reaching for the bowl . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That we can not cope with another child , that we are not ready for parenthood , that we can not face raising a child without a partner , that we can not afford a child , that our method of birth control failed , that we are the victims of rape , that we can not bear the anguish of carrying a child to term and giving it up for adoption , that we can not accept the responsibility of caring for a handicapped child — these are the reasons why we seek abortion in the vast majority of cases . |
| 24 | Offer it up , people said : offer everything up , the happy times too , it 's all part of praying for the holy souls . |
| 25 | It is all too easy under the euphoric conditions of a degree congregation to minimise the physical discomfort , the mental struggles , the times of desperation , the sheer hard work that are a part of working for a first degree . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 " . |
| 29 | A sudden wave of feeling for the clever , perfectionist girl washed over him . |
| 30 | As can be seen from Table 6 , there is a significant main effect for level of processing for the recognition scores . |