Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1985 Report on Social Attitudes found that the most highly valued method of taking personal action against an unjust law being considered was to write to the local MP and , although the importance of contacting the media for this purpose has increased , the 1986 report found ‘ a widespread and growing self confidence on the part of the electorate to try to bring influence to bear on Parliament ’ . |
| 2 | The option of maintaining the hospitals for any significant strategic period was simply untenable . |
| 3 | Dr Benjamin Spock points out , however , that if an angry mother refrains from spanking she may show her irritation in other ways , for instance , by nagging the child for half the day or trying to make him feel deeply guilty . |
| 4 | The smugglers were taking a chance in using the Dunlin for this type of passage in mid-winter as she was hardly built for open sea work although she was sound enough . |
| 5 | The librarian had to carefully plan aspects of the project , in which the students would create their own information database on local pubs and clubs using the MICROVIEWDATA software , to cover aspects such as the involvement of other staff , the amount of supervision needed by students , the appropriateness of using the software for this kind of information i.e. was the project information-led or technology-led ? |
| 6 | He enthused about the possibilities of using the technology for all sorts of other things . |
| 7 | The spaced-out freefall of ‘ Dog Tooth ’ drawing the line for all but the committed to willingly overstep . |
| 8 | The spaced-out freefall of ‘ Dog Tooth ’ drawing the line for all but the committed to willingly overstep . |
| 9 | Family members too will have considerable feelings , and this might be an opportunity for a family meeting in the old person 's home , acknowledging the sadness for everybody of having to give up that home , accepting the necessity for more care , and with it the reassurance that the family will be vitally needed for continued regular visiting and involvement . |
| 10 | Facilitation means taking responsibility for making the fundamental changes necessary for true integration , whilst accepting the direction for that change from Disabled people 's own organisations . |
| 11 | Yet we find our leading members of the Labour Party accepting the argument for some form of workfare . |
| 12 | The government had , however , signed in late May a decree easing the procedure for former owners to reclaim confiscated properties , and the FSLN claimed that this violated a pledge to respect existing legislation awarding title to current occupiers of properties [ see p. 37370 ] . |
| 13 | In a lower key , Sally Hacker describes her research on how engineering students see the world , with some thought provoking insights into the part played by mind/body dualisms in perpetuating the contempt for all things female which characterises their views . |
| 14 | The Welsh revolt of 1294 and the Scottish campaign in 1296 and subsequently absorbed another £140,000 , bringing the total for those years to around £750,000 . |
| 15 | * I would like to acknowledge the support of the Open University Faculty of Social Science Research Fund for financial assistance , and to Leon Martin for research assistance , in completing the analysis for this chapter . |
| 16 | Produced by French keyboard wiz Wally Badarou , and the band themselves , ‘ Guaranteed ’ finds all the old trademarks applied to good effect — the swirling keyboards of Mike Lindup , the old bass-as-lead instrument ploy , and drummer Gary Husband thumping the tubs for all he 's worth . |
| 17 | He said producing the brochures for each authority had not been expensive . |
| 18 | In other words , statistical testing should not be used as a substitute for theoretical ideas by simply dredging the data for any statistically significant relationships that happen to be present . |
| 19 | When applied in a commercial or public sector decision making context , it typically consists of three elements : eliciting from the decision making body its view of the likelihood of different possible futures relevant to the project under decision : assessing its valuation of alternative ways of tackling the project for all of the possible futures envisaged : suggesting the most appropriate course of action in the light of the two previous steps , using explicit and theoretically justifiable evaluation procedures . |
| 20 | The Council 's permission for many priests to share in a single concelebration was again , initially , limited to a very few occasions , but before the end of the 1960s the absurdity of the former practice had become rather obvious and concelebration was rapidly becoming the norm for all circumstances where the number of priests exceeded the number of community Masses needed for a pastoral purpose . |
| 21 | It is rapidly becoming the playground for some of Europe 's most sophisticated and cosmopolitan young people . |
| 22 | In Chamberlinian terminology , this is the elasticity of the dd curve , i.e. , the curve relating the demand for each product type to its own price with all other prices held constant . |
| 23 | There is a popular idea that when the flight data recorder is recovered from a crashed aircraft the investigator has merely to read an indicator inside it which will tell him just what the cause of the accident was , eliminating the need for all the tedious investigation practices which used to take so much time . |
| 24 | The plastic monsters look like ruling the planet for some time to come with the mammoth film and merchandise promotion that 's going on , selling everything from dinosaur lip balm to brontosaurus burgers . |
| 25 | The plastic monsters look like ruling the planet for some time to come with the mammoth film and merchandise promotion that 's going on , selling everything from dinosaur lip balm to brontosaurus burgers . |
| 26 | The chronometers , now kept in full working order at the observatory were clocks which kept accurate time at sea , solving the problem of determining longitude and paving the way for some of the greatest world discoveries . |
| 27 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |
| 28 | The Wick is far too entrancing a place for that . |
| 29 | However , acquiring a taste for less salt may take time in order to become used to a low-salt taste . |
| 30 | On the other hand where a family has a number of teenage children who could be expected to be in charge of their own belongings then we should consider applying the policy wording and deducting an excess for each person . |