Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] for that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Flower arrangers can test their skills by submitting designs for that posy , and colleagues will choose the winning entry to be made up for 2 July . |
2 | The Rock of Pakistan contented himself with keeping watch for that bit longer . |
3 | I mean in a sense they were just sacrificing peasants for that strategy . |
4 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
5 | It is sometimes possible to find a few rare or special examples of an artist 's work that dealers have sold at rising prices , but this is no basis for saying prices for that artist 's work in general have risen . |
6 | Much of Morton 's expansion in Europe has been achieved by acquisition , and these companies are being integrated not by imposing a monolithic European headquarters , but by an operating group taking responsibility for that product throughout Europe . |
7 | We are very concerned that in in making provision for housing through to the year two thousand and six , we should not be making provision for that level of vacancy rate , which seems to us to be artificially high when compared with the the national figures . |
8 | bill for the quarter between the second of August and the twentieth of September , and he had to pay seven quid for standing charges for that bill . |
9 | This entry , entitled Gravesend Quotes , has appeared since I installed Quote For The Day , so it 's a safe bet that it 's storing information for that program . |
10 | The problem is that it has the effect of actually reinforcing alienation , leaving room for that disjunction from the natural world which allows certain scientists to behave with inconceivable cruelty in their laboratories , which allows workers in slaughter houses to treat animals as if they simply had no rights or feelings at all , which allows people to justify all manner of exploitation , as if there were no moral obligations or injunctions upon us whatsoever . |
11 | I think BT should compensate us for the concern and inconvenience these mystery calls cause , perhaps by reducing bills for that quarter . |