Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | They think I 'm reconciled , but I 've only been biding my time for a chance like this one you 've brought me now . |
2 | WORLD rugby officials yesterday risked a damaging political backlash by reaffirming their support for a South African-held World Cup in 1995 . |
3 | Essex Water is giving a presentation explaining its reasons for the application and answering questions on March 25 . |
4 | Trish , who has been representing her country for the last twelve years with such good horses as Manifesto and Michelangelo , only allows her horses to compete on decent surfaces . |
5 | They drank coffee and played cards throughout the long haul to London , only interrupting their concentration for the Sheikh 's frequent visits aft to watch over his son . |
6 | The association , all of whose members are required to sign a statement pledging their support for the use of animals in research , is planning to raise the issue with the Medical Research Council . |
7 | Girding its loins for a deeper plunge into the commercial market , Hewlett-Packard Co last week announced a strategic relationship with Lotus Development Corp that will see Lotus Notes , cc:Mail , Ami Pro and Freelance Graphics ported to its first native Unix platform , HP/UX . |
8 | IXI managing director , Ray Anderson , says his company is girding its loins for the ‘ mother of all battles ’ as it seeks to drive into Sun Microsystems Inc turf armed with X.desktop over OSF/Motif . |
9 | The draft contains all the essentials of her later paper ( with Gosling ) in Nature in April , which , together with one by Wilkins and his colleagues , accompanied Crick and Watson 's paper announcing their model for the structure of DNA . |
10 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
11 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
12 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
13 | None can work well in isolation and for that reason it is reassuring that the CBI , in pressing its case for the TECs to be the local regulators of vocational training , stresses the importance of the young person 's ( and the adult worker 's ) " personal file " , building on the existing good practice of records of achievement in schools . |
14 | By 1953 , however , with Conservative rural constituencies pressing their MPs for a rural electrification subsidy , and the Minister looking more favourably on capital expenditure for this purpose , the Area Board chairmen hammered out a national plan for rural electrification , which was finally agreed at an extended and controversial meeting at a country hotel in Moretonhampstead in 1953 . |
15 | Your Royal Highness , commodores , and members of the Association , may I begin my report by thanking you Ma'am for the time you have given to our sport , for being with us at our Annual General Meeting and for the address you have just delivered . |
16 | LAUNCHING his bid for the deputy leadership , Mr John Prescott was on his best behaviour yesterday . |
17 | Their goals came in the first half , Scot Sammy Johnston opening his account for the club and |
18 | But Gary was keeping his predictions for the gilt market restrained . |
19 | Oxford United will be announcing their new manager in the morning — we 'll be revealing his name for the first time , tonight on Central News . |
20 | Basing his research for the book on over 100 interviews , Canon Elvy concludes that one of the major stumbling blocks for Christian broadcasting in Europe is that ‘ Christians in the European media are suffering from a lack of questions ’ . |
21 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale was last night starting the tough task of rebuilding his squad for a promotion push next season . |
22 | If such stipulations are made for so mundane a practice as motoring , they would seem to be reasonable precautions for protecting our environment for the rest of time from possible damage by man-made creatures . |
23 | ‘ Aye , after a battle once you have recited your thanksgivings , or prior to a campaign , while you are girding your soul for a crusade as now , as blessedly now — many of you may yearn to kneel in your cell with saw and magnilens , with rasp and buffing wheel and carbide graver , with brush and inkhorn . |
24 | Finish deving your print for the remainder of your dev. time . |
25 | Finish deving your print for the remainder of your dev. time . |
26 | Next April 's meeting need do no more than put a tick alongside South Africa 's name and we can all start booking our tickets for the 1995 thrash . |
27 | Pick up your car in Kuala Lumpur , then take to the road , booking your hotel for the following night as you go . |
28 | It was not until August 1976 that the then Secretary of State declared his intention of accepting its argument for a single , national , validating agency . |
29 | They believe that such a move could provoke Labour into accepting their terms for a partnership government as its anxiety to hold office mounted . |
30 | We followed the hunting team in the dark , stumbling across the scrubby terrain , heavily pitted with limestone fissures , until Rindi located a promising lair by cautiously sniffing its entrance for the distinctive aroma of a large reptile which does n't brush its teeth . |