Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essex Water is giving a presentation explaining its reasons for the application and answering questions on March 25 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
| 5 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But Gary was keeping his predictions for the gilt market restrained . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They believe that such a move could provoke Labour into accepting their terms for a partnership government as its anxiety to hold office mounted . |
| 10 | A snowfall the previous night , however , had covered the tracks of Graham Little and A. Baker , who had climbed it the day before — also singing its praises for the deep caves and icicles . |
| 11 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 12 | The Pope is affirming here that women have work to do not only in the Church , but also in using their gifts for the good of society . |
| 13 | I envied them their sexual freedom and their self-assured dignity , and I despised the British vice squads that ran them in and were not above enjoying their charms for a consideration . |
| 14 | Point of sale systems supplier Riva Group Plc has succeeded in stemming its losses for the year to December 31 by drastic cost-cutting and leaving unprofitable market sectors . |
| 15 | I was saving my energies for the return journey . |
| 16 | Letter of thanks from Mrs Cunning of the music department of Currie High School expressing her thanks for the cheque for £10 sent to be used for the purchase of music . |
| 17 | Maybe everyone is saving their horses for the Arc . |
| 18 | Maybe everyone is saving their horses for the Arc . |
| 19 | In developing its plans for the redeployment of the Army , the General Staff were faced with three major difficulties : lack of genuine air mobility ; loss of overflying rights over Arab countries and restricted overflying of the Indian subcontinent due to India 's ‘ non-aligned ’ stance and Pakistan 's natural sympathy for Moslem Arab Nationalism ; and the justifiable reluctance in Whitehall to build up new overseas bases . |
| 20 | Yamamoto and his staff had already spent time and effort in training their men for the attack . |
| 21 | Several chandlers are revising their catalogues for the new year . |
| 22 | She held the seahorse out and gazed at it , as if searching its curves for an answer . |
| 23 | Sheila Williams straightened herself and pulled away from him , searching her pockets for a handkerchief . |
| 24 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 25 | The Miami Cubans are flexing their wallets for the return to a country whose people are healthier , better educated and less racially divided than when the exiles left . |
| 26 | If Isabel can include in the time she spends with him developing his skills for a propensity for being slightly more economic in his travel and hospitality arrangements , I guess we 'd be even more pleased . |
| 27 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 28 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 29 | Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance , teeth bared , knife poised over his head . |
| 30 | We had to climb to FL070 maintaining VMC before we could contact Lisboa Military , and after passing our estimates for the TMA boundary , immediately requested the Porto weather and reports of CB activity . |