Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] for an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major international telecommunications service providers are teaming under the auspices of the Network Management Forum to agree purchasing specifications for an open , standardised computing environment to support their network , service and business management needs — and with annual spending of $20,000m a year on computer systems , the parties involved have the muscle to impose any standard they set . |
| 2 | Rising costs and growing demand means the group must expand to survive , but church elders are refusing permission for an extra day . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not uncommon when seeking consent for an overhead line to put forward proposals in the alternative . |
| 4 | That evening the Parsons were meeting friends for an early meal before going on to the opera . |
| 5 | Republican and unionist extremists both made gains in local elections in Ulster , damaging hopes for an early resumption of round-table talks . |
| 6 | Our group is researching prototypes for an intelligent computerised information environment for use in general practice . |
| 7 | Zoned fares have been pitched about five per cent higher than BR 's , ranging from a minimum 70p standard single to a £4.90 return , with the furthest-flung commuters paying £729 for an annual season ticket . |
| 8 | AN antiques dealer , who banks with Knutsford Branch , has set a British auction record by paying £26,800 for an English long case clock with a painted dial . |
| 9 | In the context of a head 's report dealing with special needs the decision required could relate to anything from the building of a new unit to the provision of additional welfare or teaching assistance for an individual pupil . |
| 10 | He had addressed such matters in Edinburgh , St Andrews , and would in Glasgow , with an awareness that he was reporting Scotland for an English audience as he might have reported Bavaria or Sweden . |
| 11 | Thus they support vast numbers of creatures , and in particular provide the principal feeding ground for an extraordinary variety of specialist birds , the waders . |
| 12 | SO Lady Thatcher is getting £80,000 for an after-dinner speech . |
| 13 | It created a statutory offence of riot — 12 or more people using or threatening violence for an unlawful purpose . |
| 14 | The film ended with Wayne assuming responsibility for an orphaned Vietnamese boy to the strains of The Ballad of the Green Berets and the sun apparently setting in the east , a scene which outraged his critics but apparently brought tears to the eyes of many less demanding viewers . |
| 15 | This empirical and time consuming search for an effective strategy was mentioned by many arts interviewees , although every advisory teacher appears to have come to similar conclusions ultimately about which classroom practices were effective and which not . |
| 16 | The means by which this could best be ‘ contained ’ in British sculpture , without contravening demands for an aesthetic which was essentially morally healthy and incorruptible . |
| 17 | They were loath to attract adverse publicity by criticising headhunters for an unsuitable or even disastrous appointment , or felt it might be a reflection on them if they chose an unsuitable firm . |
| 18 | Undertaking work for an overseas office |
| 19 | Scharnhorst , taking Rawalpindi for an unarmed merchant ship , signalled her to heave to . |
| 20 | Boswell that even in the absence of an express undertaking the implied undertaking against using information for an improper or collateral purpose could be relied upon to the same effect . |
| 21 | This galvanised the National Agent , R. T. Windle , into making plans for an individual membership campaign early in 1944 ; and it led to the executive summoning a conference of trade union officers so as to encourage them to contribute to a general election fund and to increase the proportion of their contracting-in membership — which was much less than half the total membership they reported to the Trades Union Congress . |
| 22 | And you 're making applications for an occasional license for Saturday the twenty ninth of October to run the bar at Nell Gwyn village hall on behalf of the the village hall committee is that right ? |
| 23 | If , after almost 10 years of revisionism , of U-turns on nuclear weapons , devolution , the European Community , state ownership , trade unions , the sale of council houses and more , Labour is still unelectable , is it now time or even overdue for Labour to pull up its roots and die , making room for an acceptable alternative to another decade of Conservative rule ? |
| 24 | The original timetable had envisaged unification on Nov. 30 , 1990 , and the leadership in South Yemen was hitherto believed to be resisting pressures for an earlier formal announcement . |
| 25 | He was accused of distributing leaflets for an outlawed Palestinian organization , the PLFP , which he denies . |
| 26 | Preparing food for an entire ship 's company in the confines of a small galley requires the very best in training , particularly as the quality of food is so important to morale at sea . |
| 27 | I have vacated that nice little office in back there , making way for an older man , and am now more often to be found in the consulting rooms . |
| 28 | If r is less than i , then the annual cost of borrowing funds for an additional project will be less than the expected annual return on the initial capital outlay , so that the project will be profitable to undertake . |
| 29 | Until lately , Turkey 's worst fear was thought to be a vacuum in northern Iraq , leaving room for an autonomous Kurdish entity — which , in its turn , would be a beacon for the separatist movement on Turkish soil . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm still stiff and sore and I 'm receiving treatment for an injured shoulder ’ he said . |