Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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1 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
2 | Each evening I reported to Anne , keeping it light for the most part . |
3 | But even when it does occur it does not provide too much of a problem , for the sea slugs are capable of quickly regenerating them ready for the next naïve fish to attack . |
4 | To sum up : a contract is void if , at the time the contract is made and unknown to the parties , goods have perished or do not exist , thereby rendering it impossible for the contract to be performed ; this , however , is subject to the qualification that the contract will not be void if the parties expressly or impliedly agreed otherwise . |
5 | It is the cynicism in the design process that offends me ; the suggestion that there 's no point in designing anything special for the working classes because they do n't have any taste . |
6 | Young people look forward to co-operation , and aspire to building something good for the future . |
7 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
8 | ‘ We 're getting her ready for the skid pan . ’ |
9 | Concentrate instead on getting everything ready for the big day . |
10 | Exhausting because there is never enough time it seems between being invited " to pitch " for the new business and actually getting everything ready for the big day . |
11 | As Dispensary physician almost the whole burden of the epidemic fell on his shoulders and the women of Aberdeen turned against him , holding him responsible for the facts he revealed , and disputing his fervent belief in the efficacy of purging and heavy bleeding which were ‘ repugnant to popular opinion ’ . |
12 | Now there 's a word that covers that and that the the choice of words based on on getting it right for the audience particularly in terms of jargon is what is called wordsmith . |
13 | We 'll continue to improve our strategy until we eliminate these potentially unsafe conditions — we 're already working on getting it right for the next overhaul in 1993 . |
14 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
15 | About one o'clock in the morning he 'd be at it , getting it ready for the neighbours to collect the following day . |
16 | so much for the Italian job Gloucester are back home training this week and getting themselves ready for the first league match of the season … that 's against wasps at Kingsholm on saturday ( 1 ) |
17 | In this letter , he briefly recorded Rufus 's harassments of the lands and knights of Canterbury , his overturning of all good customs , and the absolute impossibility which he himself had found of doing anything useful for the Church , concluding with this plea : |
18 | What a storm Sandy Lyle created by making himself unavailable for the Ryder Cup . |
19 | Charles has taken vows before God making him responsible for the Christian upbringing of the child . |
20 | He is designated Commander-in-Chief , making him responsible for the safety of US troops abroad and for dealing with any threat to the nation 's security at home . |
21 | Self-help schemes relieve the state of the immediate necessity of providing housing and offer a cheap source of shelter , thus making it possible for the poor to survive on very low incomes ( Burgess 1978 ) . |
22 | Such reformers usually saw themselves as making it possible for the Masai to survive as a race : getting obsessed with the Masai was not inherently a passive occupation . |
23 | Derek Malcolm might have a point when he says that our idea of ‘ glamour ’ has also changed — making it possible for the 90s woman in the street to look glamorous , too . |
24 | The key point was that the bases paired , making it possible for the first time to seem how a chemical entity might be able to store and copy information . |
25 | So we would hope that by releasing that article fourteen direction at that stage , all we would really be doing is making it possible for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetus from real life applications within the general locations specified in the structure plan . |
26 | Energetic international regulation of banking and tax laws , making it impossible for the mafiosi to launder their ill-gotten gains , would quickly destroy the Mafia and with it the myth of an irrepressible global conspiracy . |
27 | Often the skirt was frilled as well making it impossible for the audience to see where the skirt ended and the knickers began . |
28 | The Commission emphasised in its decision that the selective nature of the price cuts , and the circumstances in which they were made , amounted to ‘ loss leader ’ tactics making it impossible for the much smaller competitor in the market place to stay in business . |
29 | The biting winds are laden with icy and freezing rain , making it impossible for the target to fight or move . |
30 | Each of the five judgments rambles over the territory in what can only be called a head-scratching way , making it impossible for the consumer of the judgment to know at the end just what the law is held to be , except negatively , and then only negatively on a few points . |