Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was fair , well covered but not fat , and good looking except for hard lines round her mouth . |
| 2 | ‘ It was the kind of performance I 've been looking for for two years , ’ said Welsh coach Alan Davies . |
| 3 | ‘ It was the kind of performance I 've been looking for for two years , ’ said Welsh coach Alan Davies . |
| 4 | The driver wound down his window and cursed him , adding that for two pins he 'd tell the police . |
| 5 | Mr Foley identified uncertainty as the greatest obstacle to company expansion , noting that for many firms continued rationalisation may be the best policy . |
| 6 | These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes . |
| 7 | Publishing exam results is fine — We have been saying that for three years , but as the Secretary of State managed to point out in his contorted evidence to the teachers ' pay review body , exam results alone provide only an elementary indication of the effectiveness of a school . |
| 8 | The remaining metals were mainly used to modify the properties of the others by alloying and for specialised functions in construction such as joining by soldering . |
| 9 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 10 | Richard has a wealth of experience in catering as for twenty years he was manager of a large company hotel . |