Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] for the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
| 4 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 5 | But Gary was keeping his predictions for the gilt market restrained . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was saving my energies for the return journey . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Maybe everyone is saving their horses for the Arc . |
| 14 | Maybe everyone is saving their horses for the Arc . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yamamoto and his staff had already spent time and effort in training their men for the attack . |
| 17 | Several chandlers are revising their catalogues for the new year . |
| 18 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance , teeth bared , knife poised over his head . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To become an agent , these social secretaries simply have to reverse their roles with the agents who have been selling them acts for the previous few years . |
| 25 | In all we promise the publick to be as careful as possible not to lead them into mistakes , nor will we mention any particular tree , plant , flower or fruit which is not in our own garden … we do not propose to mention many different species of trees and plants that are either in the public Botanick Garden , nor that may be in the possession of some curious gentlemen , but only such as are actually in the nurseries of persons belonging to this Society and from where any Gentleman may be furnished with any of the particulars here treated of by directing their letters for the Society of Gardeners at Newhall 's Coffee House in Chelsea , Nr . |
| 26 | The point of this fracture between regulation broken and its consequences is that it facilitates corporate crime ; executives need only concern themselves with the likelihood of being leniently punished for breaking regulations , whilst ignoring its consequences for the law does not concern itself with the consequences either . |
| 27 | TWENTY key executives at TVS Entertainment have been offered a package of financial incentives aimed at securing their services for the station 's battle to retain its lucrative ITV franchise in the South-east . |
| 28 | TWENTY key executives at TVS Entertainment have been offered a package of financial incentives aimed at securing their services for the station 's battle to retain its lucrative ITV franchise in the South-east . |
| 29 | In 1894 she was in a position to build her own home at Munstead Wood and it was Lutyens , sharing her feelings for the Surrey vernacular and the arts and crafts lifestyle , who designed it for her . |
| 30 | In framing its policies for the future , we hope that the Council will fully acknowledge the importance of the land use planning system , something which is not clearly enough stated in Threshold 21 . |